Remember in elementary school when you were sitting in the cafeteria during lunch, peering into your lunchbox (Yea, I had a lunch box, so what? Chicks totally loved the He Man and Duck Tales lunch boxes I'd whip out on the cafeteria table) to see what you had to eat that day? As you were eating your cheese sandwich, you'd look around to see what action was going on around you. People were making trades left and right. An apple and a box of raisins for a pack of Shark Bites.

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A full postseason share on the World Series champion San Francisco Giants was worth $317,631, down from a record $350,030 for the New York Yankees in 2009. The commissioner's office said Monday a full share on the losing Texas Rangers was $246,280, down from $265,358 for the NL champion Philadelphia Phillies last year.

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Baseball players always profess that the ring is the thing, but you have to think they also get pretty fired up…

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Tuesday night at 11:59 ET is the deadline for teams to offer arbitration to their own free agents.

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The Phillies said on Tuesday that they will offer arbitration to free-agent outfielder Jayson Werth. They will not, however, do the same for free-agent reliever Chad Durbin. Werth, who expressed a desire to remain in Philadelphia after the Phillies' postseason run ended in October, will be among the marquee names in this year's free-agent market.

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Joey Votto of the Cincinnati Reds brought the NL MVP award back to Canada following a 13-year absence, earning 31 of 32 first-place votes and 443 points from the Baseball Writers’ Association of America.

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So the New York Mets ' extended managing derby is finally over and the winner of a two-year contract is…

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NEW YORK, N.Y. – Terry Collins is a major league manager once again, hired by the New York Mets to help revitalize a franchise that has struggled on the field and at the gate.

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Now that the 2010 Major League Baseball season has come to an end, it is time to look towards next year. The draft is not nearly important as, for example, the NFL's Draft, because players that are drafted into the major leagues hardly ever play in the majors during their first year. Free agency is the biggest factor in determining how a team will fare in the following season. Below is a list of the top 5 teams in MLB for 2011. No. 1 – New York Yankees: This should come as no surprise.

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Ryne Sandberg is back with the organization that once gave him away and painfully watched him become a Hall of Fame player in a different uniform. The Philadelphia Phillies hired Sandberg to manage their Triple-A affiliate, the Lehigh Valley IronPigs, on Monday. Nearly 29 years ago, the Phillies traded Sandberg to the Chicago Cubs in perhaps the most lopsided deal in Philadelphia sports history.

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