VIERA, Fla. - In the least surprising move of camp, the Nationals have added center fielder Rick Ankiel to their 40-man roster. Ankiel, signed to a minor league deal this offseason, is set to be the ...

This Rick Ankiel, at 39, father of two, is what grew from the fight that saved his baseball career, the man and the ballplayer who came to expect – encourage, even – the less conventional route. Five ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — It's been 14 years since lefty Rick Ankiel pitched in a professional baseball game, but the one-time wunderkind is "toying with" the idea of getting back into pitching, according to ...

Davey Johnson pretty much summed up Rick Ankiel's impact on today's 2-0 Nationals win in one simple sentence. "He was basically our offense and our defense," the Nats' skipper said. Ankiel did it all ...

Rick Ankiel hasn't played in the majors since 2013. He hasn't pitched since 2004. Yet he's at least considering a comeback attempt to change both those facts. According to Tim Brown of Yahoo! Sports, ...

While the baseball world focused on the trade deadline earlier this week, the inaugural Bluegrass World Series opened at Louisville Slugger Field in Louisville. What is the Bluegrass World Series, you ...

Former major league pitcher/outfielder Rick Ankiel is nearing “decision time” regarding his potential comeback, agent Scott Boras told Derrick Goold of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. It’s unlikely the ...

Former MLB pitcher and outfielder Rick Ankiel confirmed on Monday he plans on training for a potential return to baseball in 2019. Prior to the St. Louis Cardinals' game against the Miami Marlins on ...

Rick Ankiel looks back more than a decade later on one of baseball’s most remarkable career comebacks with a measure of evenhandedness that borders on ennui. “I think if I looked back and somebody ...