MLB announces pace of game initiatives, replay modifications  —  Richard Justice joins Fran Charles on MLB Tonight to discuss how baseball is incorporating new pace of play rules  —  Baseball Commissioner Robert D. Manfred, Jr., Major League Baseball Players Association Executive Director Tony Clark …

Texas Rangers' Jurickson Profar to have shoulder surgery Monday  —  Texas Rangers second baseman Jurickson Profar (13) rounds the bases after hitting a walk off home run the ninth inning of play at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington on Thursday, September 26, 2013.

After injury last year, starter expected to follow regular program through Spring Training  —  Yankees pitcher Masahiro Tanaka threw a short bullpen session at the team's Minor League complex during Spring Training  —  TAMPA, Fla. — A crowd of about a dozen coaches and other observers clustered behind …

Sources: MLB, union to announce pace-of-play rules changes Friday  —  FOX Sports  —  Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association are set to announce rule changes Friday aimed at quickening the pace of play, sources tell FOX Sports.  —  FOX Sports has been able to confirm the following modifications:

Cuban wunderkind Yoan Moncada, whose free agency is about the most interesting thing in baseball right now that doesn't involve Alex Rodriguez, has moved into the “contract phase” of the process, according to Moncada's agent David Hastings.  —  That means Moncada and his representative are done …

Top 100 Prospects: Start Of A Ranking Revolution  —  Your browser does not support iframes.  —  It was 25 years ago that Baseball America unveiled its first Top 100 Prospects list.  —  Braves wunderkind lefty Steve Avery was the original No. 1 prospect, a few months before his 20th birthday.

Alex Rodriguez ‘impossible to dislike’ says Yankees radio broadcaster Suzyn Waldman  —  There was a time, between his Tampa tent revival and Biogenesis, when Yankees voices were not drilling down into Alex Rodriguez's performance enhanced past.  When it came to pinstriped cheaters …

Washington Nationals' Jayson Werth on jail time: 'It's not a destination you would choose'  —  Washington Nationals outfielder Jayson Werth said of his five days in the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center: “I wouldn't say it was the easiest thing to go through.  I don't feel like my spirit has been broken or anything like that.

MLB.com's Jonathan Mayo answers questions about the game's top prospects  —  John Hart, Jim Callis and Bill Ripken discuss Twins outfielder Byron Buxton being ranked No. 1 on MLB.com's list of top prospects  —  We're closing in on the home stretch in the Arizona Fall League …

Sandoval on weight, photo: ‘Let them talk’  —  FORT MYERS, Fla. — Red Sox third baseman Pablo Sandoval, no stranger to comments about his weight, dismissed recent social media criticism Thursday that stemmed from an unflattering portrait of him on Boston.com.