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, ...

The mystical dread of “the yips” causes baseball players to try anything to fix it. For Rick Ankiel, that included vodka. The former St. Louis Cardinals pitcher famously lost his ability to throw the ...

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 ...