Ken Rosenthal, who opened a bakery cafe in the St. Louis area, with sourdough bread as its star, and built it into a small chain that would become Panera Bread, died on Feb. 14 at his home in Scottsdale, Ariz. He was 81. His wife, Linda Rosenthal, said the cause was Alzheimer’s disease. Mr. Rosenthal…
The morning after Alex Bregman made his free-agent decision, Fred Petersen sent a text to his former boss with the Boston Red Sox, Amiel Sawdaye. “We got BERGMAN,” Petersen wrote. With that, a running joke between those who were with the Red Sox when the team drafted Bregman in 2012 came full circle. Sawdaye, now…
The Baltimore Orioles began their offseason needing a front-of-the-rotation starter — either Corbin Burnes, whom they never appeared likely to re-sign, or a reasonable facsimile. Their response thus far? One-year contracts for a 35-year-old who was an ace in Japan, right-hander Tomoyuki Sugano, and a 41-year-old who is now a mid-rotation starter, righty Charlie Morton….
The excitement over Japanese phenom Roki Sasaki coming to Major League Baseball should be tempered by the likelihood that his signing will produce unintended consequences — teenage Latin American prospects who will be abandoned by the team that signs him. Sasaki, 23, might be a top-of-the-rotation starter as soon as next season. The current international…