The MLB Network made its much-hyped debut Jan. 

It is early June and Lorin Sandretzky is where so many of his beloved Seattle teams will spend 2008: flat on his back and in dire need of medical help. 

The Yanks now have four of the highest-paid players in baseball. 

Add the Pirates to the small -- but growing -- list of Major League Baseball teams publicly speaking in favor of a salary cap. 

Eli, Peyton Manning will have family reunion in Tampa 

What do Manny and Chase Utley have in common? Find out as we look back on baseball's strangest performances of 2008. 

While the Yankees' recent signings of the market's premium free agents might seem to kill their concept of bolstering the club from within, it actually could help the plan instead. 

--LHP Andy Pettitte and the Yankees might be wise to find a way to work out their differences and figure out how to make a reunion work. 

The Yankees threw money at their problems -- but made smart choices by filling glaring needs -- and hope an offseason full of blockbusters returns them to prominence on the field after failing to make the playoffs in 2008. 

While the Yankees' recent signings of the market's premium free agents might seem to kill their concept of bolstering the club from within, it actually could help the plan instead. 

--LHP Andy Pettitte and the Yankees might be wise to find a way to work out their differences and figure out how to make a reunion work. 

The Yankees threw money at their problems -- but made smart choices by filling glaring needs -- and hope an offseason full of blockbusters returns them to prominence on the field after failing to make the playoffs in 2008. 

While the Yankees' recent signings of the market's premium free agents might seem to kill their concept of bolstering the club from within, it actually could help the plan instead. 

--LHP Andy Pettitte and the Yankees might be wise to find a way to work out their differences and figure out how to make a reunion work. 

The Yankees threw money at their problems -- but made smart choices by filling glaring needs -- and hope an offseason full of blockbusters returns them to prominence on the field after failing to make the playoffs in 2008.