Feb. 24 - Voluntary reporting date for players other than pitchers, catchers and injured players on teams other than Oakland and Seattle. Mandatory reporting date for Oakland and Seattle.
March 2 - Mandatory reporting date for teams other than Oakland and Seattle.
March 2-11 - Teams may renew contracts of unsigned players.
March…
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - The Yankees finalized a $1.1 million, one-year contract with Raul Ibanez and reached a $900,000, one-year deal to keep Eric Chavez.
Ibanez's deal, announced Tuesday, includes $2.9 million in performance bonuses.
A 39-year-old outfielder who played with Philadelphia the previous three seasons, Ibanez hit .245 last year with…
SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) - The Texas Rangers have hired former All-Star shortstop Tony Fernandez as a special assistant to general manager Jon Daniels.
Fernandez went to five All-Star games and won four straight Gold Gloves with Toronto, where he spent most of a 17-year career that ended in 2001. He reached…
TORONTO (AP) - Dutch right-hander Rick VandenHurk has agreed to a one-year contract with the Toronto Blue Jays.
The 26-year-old had no decisions and an 8.00 ERA in four games and eight innings for Baltimore last year and was 9-13 with a 4.43 ERA in 26 starts for the Orioles' Triple-A…
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (AP) - Last summer, Carlos Beltran offered to foot the bill if then-Mets teammate Jonathan Niese received a nose job.
Now it's time to pay up.
The surgery, performed last October, didn't straighten the 25-year-old pitcher's crooked nose, but that wasn't the point. Niese is breathing a lot…
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) - Los Angeles Dodgers reliever Ronald Belisario says a positive test for cocaine was the reason he remained in Venezuela and didn't play in the majors last season.
Belisario said Wednesday that he only tried cocaine once, but doesn't remember when he used it or tested positive.
The Venezuelan…
SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) - Matt Wieters made the All-Star team last season, won a Gold Glove and started to fulfill much of the promise he showed as a hot prospect in the Baltimore Orioles farm system.
Now if the 25-year-old catcher can learn Mandarin and Japanese, he should be all set.
Wieters…
