For the Angels, the 2012 season isn't about their eventful preseason signings, their slow start or their early summer resurgence. It's all about the finish.

What makes the Stephen Strasburg situation so interesting is the conflict between the rightful need to do whatever it takes to try to ensure that he can help the team for years and the realization that there are no guarantees that the Nationals might be in such a commanding position again.

The Blue Jays traded four prospects to the Astros in a 10-player trade.

The Astros and Blue Jays completed a 10-player trade on Friday, with Houston getting seven players, including Francisco Cordero, and sending three pitchers, including J.A. Happ and Brandon Lyon, to Toronto.

Edinson Volquez threw a complete-game, one-hit shutout against the Astros on Thursday. This is the Padres' 17th complete-game, one-hitter, but the franchise is still without a no-hitter.

Jonathan Lucroy played his first rehab game in the Minors after fracturing a bone in his right hand. He went 2-for-3 and played five innings behind the plate for the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers.

Barry Larkin and the late Ron Santo, the newest members of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, will be inducted on Sunday in front of what is expected to be a large and enthusiastic crowd decked in Cincinnati red and Cubbie blue.

Ron Santo's reaction now to being inducted into the Hall of Fame, if he could share it, might include a “What took ya?” Chances are, though, he would have clicked his heels and expressed pride and gratitude.

Sidelined since April 17, Yankees outfielder Brett Gardner will undergo arthroscopic surgery on his right elbow next week and might not return to action this season.

The A's defeated the Yankees in Oakland for the first time in over two years as A.J. Griffin held the powerful lineup in check for six innings in a 4-3 victory.

Edinson Volquez threw a one-hitter to propel the Padres to a 1-0 win over the Astros at Petco Park on Thursday.

Each day, MLB.com selects one player from each game whose performance stands out.

Jorge Soler, the club's $30 million sign out of Cuba and Albert Almora, the team's no. 1 pick in this year's First-Year Player Draft, once competed against each other on the international stage. Today the young outfielders are not only Arizona Rookie League teammates, they are roommates sharing the same hotel room and the same dream.

Second baseman Robinson Cano's hit streak reached 22 games at an opportune time Thursday night, in the sixth inning of the Yankees' series opener with the A's at the Oakland Coliseum.

Cody Ross hit his third three-run homer in two nights, this one in the bottom of the ninth to lift the Red Sox over the White Sox on Thursday night in Dustin Pedroia's return to the lineup.

If you believe even a small fraction of what you read, you have to believe that Cubs starter Ryan Dempster will be heading headed somewhere by July 31.

Reggie Jackson, a legend with the A's and the Yankees, was back in a New York uniform as a special adviser Thursday in Oakland.