Garrett Atkins

A week into the season, Ryan Church was raking doubles and Daniel Murphy was the new hotness. Five weeks later, Mets fans are looking at a much different scenario. Church has seemingly fallen out of favor with Jerry Manuel and Murphy has been unacceptably bad in left field. Daniel Murphy hasn't done it with the bat or glove so far Many thought that Manuel would use Murphy to spell Delgado at first base and potentially groom him for a future at the position. However, that hasn’t happened...Read Full Story

The 2010 Colorado Rockies face a challenge that no other Rockies team before them has faced. They are blazing trails that some baseball fans in the Rocky Mountain region once felt were impossible to blaze. This 2010 Rockies team is dealing with a word never thrust upon them before: Expectations. Sure, the 2008 team had their fair share of excitement surrounding them. Fans rummaged through all of their Broncos, Avalanche and Nuggets apparel looking for the Rockies hat that they buried after...Read Full Story

Garrett Atkins became a free agent when the Colorado Rockies failed to offer a contract for next season. Atkins, who turned 30 on Saturday, has spent his entire seven-year major league career with the Rockies. The third baseman slumped to a .226 average this year with nine homers and 48 RBIs after hitting .286 with 21 homers and 99 RBIs in 2008. Atkins, who made $7.05 million, lost the third base job to Ian Stewart by the end of the season. Atkins had a career-high 29 homers and 120 RBIs in...Read Full Story

Third baseman Garrett Atkins and reliever Mike Gonzalez have reached preliminary agreements with the Baltimore Orioles, people familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press. Gonzalez gets a $12 million, two-year contract and Atkins receives a one-year deal that pays him $4 million next season and includes an option for 2011. The deals are pending a physical, according to the people, who spoke separately on condition of anonymity because the contracts had not been completed as of...Read Full Story

MLB.com noted, it's reasonable to assume that the 75 percent of polled Colorado fans who didn't think the Rockies got enough in return for Matt Holliday may have jumped the gun just a tad. Reports indicate that Colorado Rockies GM Dan O'Dowd might just package Huston Street in a follow-up deal. There are plenty of teams in the market for a closer — foremost among them the St. Louis Cardinals, the New York Mets and the Cleveland Indians — all teams which had called him about Brian Fuentes...Read Full Story