Insuring a star’s contract reduces a club’s risk, but usually only up to a point.
Seemingly everyone except Yankees players cash in for making the All-Star team, even Omar Infante.
Explaining a seldom-used and confusing procedure that enables a club to quickly clear a roster spot.
The timing of when a foreign amateur free agent signs dictates when he must be protected on a club’s 40-man roster.
A town in need of some baseball excitement to go with its great barbecue gets the 2012 All-Star Game.
Junior earned more than $170 million in his 22-year career but was much more cost-effective for the Mariners than his hometown Reds.
Though a large percentage of professional baseball players got where they are by going through the draft, some had to find their own road to the majors.
Ryan Dempster and Scott Rolen are two players who have reworked their contracts to give their teams more financial flexibility.
Keeping Stephen Strasburg in the minor leagues makes perfect financial sense for the Nationals.
The Phillies must determine if Jayson Werth is worth keeping and how to free up money to do so.
A look at Major League Baseball’s version of transactional limbo.
A look at the contract status of each of the 30 major-league skippers.
Calculating your favorite team’s payroll depends on who has the calculator.
Four picks made it through spring training, and time will tell if they turn out to be finds.
Players with less than three years of major-league service time have no leverage in contract talks.
The three-time defending champion Angels will have payroll flexibility after this season.