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ESPN.com news services NEW YORK -- Fear not, Mets fans. An injury to closer Billy Wagner's shoulder apparently is nothing more than a 'muscle spasm.' Team public relations direction Jay Horwitz said Tuesday that an MRI on the left-hander's shoulder

Like Francisco Liriano, Florida's Josh Johnson burst onto the major-league scene as a rookie in '06 (12-7, 3.10 ERA, 133 K, 157 IP) and then had his '07 season wiped out by Tommy John surgery. Unlike Liriano, though, Johnson has made his way back to

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Righty back to face Orioles more than a month after injury After this start by Shaun Marcum against Milwaukee on June 18, he said he couldn't lift his arm enough to wash his hair. He went on the disabled list afterward. (Morry Gash/Associated Press) If

SEATTLE (AP)Seattle is special to Jon Lester, and not just because hes a local favorite. Its where he was during a series in 2006 when he first had his sore back examined, before being diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma. Hes received treatments here

CHICAGO - Jerome Holtzman, a longtime baseball writer who made the Hall of Fame, created the saves rule and later became Major League Baseball's official historian, has died. He was 81. Holtzman died Saturday in Evanston. 'As a baseball writer, columnist