Although the 2008 MLB free agency period has yet to set sail, one of the off-season’s biggest fish is already swimming towards the west coast.

The Oakland Athletics acquired outfielder Matt Holliday from the Colorado Rockies on Monday. In exchange, the Athletics are sending closer Huston Street, outfielder Carlos Gonzalez and pitcher Greg Smith a mile high. Read more »

When President Elect Barack Obama announced change was coming, he did not anticipate it to be negative. However, after the stock market proceeded to drop another 650 points, Americans of all walks of life were hit even harder by a struggling economy.

However, do the economic stumbles affect professional athletes? Unlike most Americans, athletes don’t have to worry about putting food on the table. With the minimum salary set at $370,000, baseball players have the luxury of leading comfortable lives, making Joe the Plumber quite jealous. Read more »