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Kansas City, MO (SportsNetwork.com) - The Kansas City Royals on Monday announced they have signed pitcher Edinson Volquez to a two-year contract with a mutual option for 2017. According to CBSSports.com and MLB.com on Dec. 18, the deal is worth $20 million. Volquez spent 2014 with Pittsburgh and had one of the best seasons of his 10- year career with a record of 13-7 and a 3.04 ERA in 32 games, all but one as a starter. The 31-year-old right-hander was 9-12 with a 5.71 ERA for the Padres and Dodgers in 2013. He owns a career mark of 66-59 with a 4.44 ERA in 191 games, including 185 starts with Texas, Cincinnati, San Diego, Los Angeles and Pittsburgh. Volquez had his best season with the Reds in 2008, posting a mark of 17-6 with a 3.21 ERA. The American League-champion Royals had been in need of another starting pitcher with the loss of James Shields to free agency. To make room on the 40-man roster, the Royals designated infielder Ryan Jackson for assignment. Custom Los Angeles Dodgers Jerseys . JOHNS, N. Chase Utley Jersey . -- Detroit Lions defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh says he isnt going to change what he does on the field. http://www.dodgersteamproshop.com/Dodgers-Yasmani-Grandal-Kids-Jersey/ .com) - A pair of programs shooting for their 10th win of the season get together at Madison Square Garden on Saturday, as the NC State Wolfpack tangle with 22nd-ranked West Virginia during the challenge round of the Gotham Classic. Ross Stripling Jersey .ca presents its latest weekly power rankings for the 2013-14 Barclays Premier League season. Corey Seager Jersey . He was 26. Edwards, the Supercup Championship leader, was in the passenger seat as an instructor for a private training session at Queensland Raceway at Willowbank, outside Brisbane, Porsche Motorsport said.ZURICH, Switzerland -- Tiny Cape Verde, the feel-good story of African football this year, was thrown out of the final World Cup qualifying playoffs after FIFA ruled Thursday that the island nation fielded an ineligible player in a decisive qualifying win over Tunisia. Tunisia, now without a coach after Nabil Maaloul quit and criticized his players following the countrys apparent failure, was instead awarded a 3-0 victory by forfeit and reinstated to Africas 10-team playoffs, which will be drawn on Monday and start next month. Cape Verde ironically benefited from ineligible player sanctions against Equatorial Guinea earlier in qualifying to have the chance to overtake Tunisia, but was found guilty by FIFAs disciplinary committee of using suspended defender Fernando Varela in its 2-0 win in Rades on Saturday in the decisive final round of group games. That saw the Cape Verdeans move ahead of then-leader Tunisia to win the group. Africas five representatives in Brazil next year will be decided in the playoffs. Cape Verde was looking to reach the World Cup for the first time. FIFA said Varela was ineligible because he had not fully served a four-game ban for a red card in a qualifier in March, which was also one of two games Cape Verde was awarded 3-0 by FIFA because of Equatorial Guineas ineligible player. Tunisia complained formally to FIFA earlier Thursday over Varelaas participation and the Cape Verdean Football Federation was stripped of the win and its playoff place and fined 6,000 Swiss francs ($6,447), FIFA said.dddddddddddd The federation can appeal the decision. A country with only half a million people and limited football resources, Cape Verde won over many fans this year after it qualified for the African Cup for the first time in its history and surprised by reaching the quarterfinals before losing to Ghana. However, it became the seventh country in Africas beleaguered World Cup qualifying competition to be sanctioned by FIFA for fielding an ineligible player, with Ethiopia, Togo, Sudan, Burkina Faso and Gabon all also forfeiting games. The disciplinary case against Cape Verde delayed FIFAs publishing of its latest monthly world rankings by several hours Thursday. The rankings will be used to decide which five African teams are seeded for next weeks playoff draw. Tunisia will now join Ivory Coast, Ghana, Algeria and Nigeria as the five seeded teams in the draw. Egypt, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Senegal and Ethiopia will be unseeded. Maaloul , theTunisia coach, had apologized and resigned following the 2-0 home loss to Cape Verde, when the Tunisian fans booed their own team. "My players were totally hopeless," Maaloul said. "There were eight of the 11 who did not take any responsibility." ' ' '