Kevin Appier

It bears repeating: Wins is an imperfect stat—which is why Felix Hernandez deserves the Cy Young

$4.042Amount Angels pitcher Kevin Appier, who will earn $10 million this year, has received from the Department of Agriculture since 1996 to subsidize the 270-acre soybean, corn and sorghum farm he owns in Kansas.

an opposing team's scout sizes up the Angels

Teams are frantically bidding up the market for pitching—but their own research reveals how they should limit their largesse

Blue Jays assistant general manager Dave Stewart, a candidate for the Brewers' vacant general managership, has stopped talking to the media. Stewart, one of baseball's more loquacious executives, says that too much...