Alex Rodriguez's DEA confession: Yes, I used steroids from fake Miami doctor  —  ›  —  ‹  —  For 21 tumultuous months, New York Yankees superstar Alex Rodriguez has defiantly maintained he never used banned substances from a Coral Gables anti-aging clinic …

Former pitcher Brad Halsey, 33, dies in climbing accident  —  Former major league pitcher Brad Halsey died Friday in a recreational climbing accident near his New Braunfels, Texas home, according to a person close to Halsey's family.  —  The person spoke to USA TODAY Sports on condition …

NO, GOLD GLOVE VOTERS STILL AREN'T PAYING ATTENTION  —  The Gold Glove Awards make more sense than they used to ... but they don't make that much sense, still.  —  As I'm sure you'll recall, last year Rawlings was gracious and sensible enough to (finally) inject some machine intelligence into the process …

2015 Toronto Blue Jays Top 10 Prospects  —  Want More?  Complete 2015 Top 10 Prospects Rankings  —  Get it all: Subscribe to Baseball America  —  Go 30 deep: Order the 2015 Prospect Handbook!  —  The Blue Jays entered this season with playoff aspirations after struggling in 2013 …

Giants slugger Michael Morse on Mets' radar  —  After eliminating Michael Cuddyer from their list of potential free-agent pursuits, the Mets still have other outfield targets they may consider.  —  Michael Morse is one such name who fits the Mets' criteria, according to a person with knowledge of the club's internal discussions.

10 Things I Believe About Baseball Without Evidence  —  Well, here we are.  The Giants won another World Series, while the A's flopped in the playoffs yet again.  I'm not one of those A's fans who hate the Giants, but it's starting to annoy the crap out of even me to see the Giants always succeed …

Dodgers hire Farhan Zaidi as GM  —  LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Dodgers will name Oakland Athletics assistant GM Farhan Zaidi, a Berkeley-educated economist, as their next GM, baseball sources confirmed to ESPNLosAngeles.com Tuesday night.  —  The news will be officially announced later this week.

MAKING THE CASE FOR A YOENIS CESPEDES-JOHNNY CUETO TRADE  —  The Boston Red Sox goal this offseason is pretty simple: upgrade the rotation.  After trading away every member of their Opening Day rotation besides Clay Buchholz, Boston is in need of several quality starting pitchers.

Weeks, Fielder power Brewers to win  —  MILWAUKEE — Years from now, if things go as planned, a whole lot more than 44,685 people will say they were at Miller Park on Saturday night.  —  But that's how many made up the third-largest crowd in ballpark history and saw super-prospects Rickie Weeks …

Having started out as a pitcher, D-backs prospect gaining experience with playing time  —  10/31/14: Evan Marzilli hits a two-run single to left in the 2nd inning to give Salt River a 2-0 lead  —  SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Evan Marzilli can recall those early days of youth baseball when he stood atop …

Mets make changes to uniform, hats  —  Matthew Cerrone: It looks like they are ditching the ivory uniform, while going back to the pinstripes on bright white.  Also, the all-white with no stripes is gone, which is a shame, as I really liked that one.  It also looks like road blue (with New York) …

The Dodgers Still Have Too Many Outfielders  —  Nearly a year ago on these very electronic pages, I wrote a post entitled “The Dodgers And Too Many Outfielders,” investigating the fact that the Dodgers had four starting outfielders — Yasiel Puig, Matt Kemp, Carl Crawford and Andre Ethier …

ISSUES WITH THE MLB QUALIFYING OFFER SYSTEM … The qualifying offer system in Major League Baseball was a well-intended and generally well-executed addition to the CBA prior to the start of the 2013 season.  Ultimately, the system helped remove draft pick compensation attached to most free agents.