Archive for February 16th, 2008
Josh Beckett: To start exhibition opener
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Dustin Pedroia: Arrives at camp
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Daisuke Matsuzaka: Scheduled to open Grapefruit League season
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Spring ends the sting for Hoffman (Yahoo! Sports)
The all-time saves leader blew two to end last season, but the Padres gladly give him the ball again.
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Relief pitcher sleepers: Sherrill should win closer’s job
Mike Harmon works through the bullpens to find sleeper relievers and closer candidates for 2008.
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Nats’ Lo Duca on Mitchell Report: ‘I made a mistake’; Mets’ Carlos Beltran confident (AP)
Nationals catcher Paul Lo Duca addressed his inclusion in the Mitchell Report for the first time Saturday, acknowledging what he called “a mistake.” At the New York Mets’ camp, Carlos Beltran said Lo Duca’s former team is the favorite in the NL East. Lo Duca was among the more prominent players cited in baseball [...]
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Sense of unfinished business haunts NL champion Colorado Rockies (AP)
The Colorado Rockies began spring training Saturday with a grand sense of accomplishment stemming from their unfathomable 21-1 run-up to the World Series four months ago. Mixed in with all the happiness, however, was a sense of unfinished business for the talented team that set a franchise record for wins but was overmatched in a [...]
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Lopez back with Braves, hoping to catch on as a backup (AP)
Javy Lopez looks as though he never left. “I’ve got my old locker, my old number,” Lopez said Saturday, surveying his surroundings after the second workout of his second go-around with the Atlanta Braves. “You can’t ask for anything better.” Of course, a lot has changed since Lopez last played for the Braves in 2003.
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Normally quiet Beltran has familiar message for Rollins: `We are the team to beat’ (AP)
Johan Santana’s first workout with the New York Mets had his teammates all pumped up — even quiet Carlos Beltran. The star center fielder reported to camp three days early Saturday and revealed he probably won’t be ready to play when spring training games start because he’s still rehabbing from Oct.
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At 44, Randy Johnson mounts what he says will be his last comeback (AP)
For the second year in a row, Randy Johnson begins spring training recovering from back surgery. At 44, he said this almost certainly will be the last of such comebacks. “I don’t care to go through another surgery again, and rehab,” he said Saturday. “If this was to happen again, it’s 99.9 percent” that he [...]
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