| Mar 21 | Padres RHP Garland to miss next start (AP) Padres right-hander Jon Garland will miss his next scheduled start Sunday because of a \"cranky\" shoulder, manager Bud Black said. Garland, expected to compete for the No. 2 or 3 spot in the Padres\' starting rotation, signed a $4.7 million contract in.. |
| Mar 20 | Veteran LHP Embree to return to Red Sox (AP) Alan Embree agreed to a minor league contract with the Boston Red Sox on Saturday, returning him to the team he won the 2004 World Series with. Wearing his familiar No. 43 Red Sox jersey, the left-hander said \"It\'s been a very interesting 48 hours fo.. |
| Mar 20 | M\'s Hernandez throws 5 scoreless innings (AP) Seattle manager Don Wakamatsu called a rare spring training team meeting before Saturday\'s game with Arizona. The reason? The Mariners had lost six games in a row and looked bad doing it. The timing? Felix Hernandez was on the mound for the Mariners... |
| Mar 20 | Rays C Navarro injures leg in collision (AP) Francisco Liriano outpitched Tampa Bay\'s David Price and the Minnesota Twins went on to a 6-2 exhibition victory Saturday that left the Rays grateful the outcome wasn\'t worse. Price gave up six straight hits in a four-run inning and 11 hits overall, .. |
| Mar 20 | Selig believes realignment can work (AP) Baseball commissioner Bud Selig admitted Saturday that he has put his ideas for realignment on paper, but that\'s as far as it has gone thus far. \"When I am on long airport rides I will fiddle around with divisions and things,\" Selig said at Maryvale .. |
| Mar 20 | Halladay struggles against Tigers (AP) Roy Halladay struggled for the first time this spring and the Detroit Tigers were able to take advantage. Halladay (1-1) allowed three runs and six hits, all for extra bases, in five innings of the Philadelphia Phillies\' 3-0 loss to the Tigers on Sat.. |
| Mar 20 | Indians\' Wood could miss up to 2 months (AP) Kerry Wood went one full season in Cleveland without making a trip to the disabled list. He won\'t make it two. The Indians\' closer, with a long history of injuries and surgeries, could miss two months with a strained muscle in his upper back, an inju.. |
| Mar 20 | Guillen asked son to resign from ChiSox (AP) White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen said on Saturday that he asked his son to resign from his position with the team because the younger Guillen had made a mistake. Guillen spoke to the media a day after his son Oney resigned from a position with the Chi.. |
| Mar 20 | Oswalt to start eighth straight opener (AP) Roy Oswalt will be the Astros\' opening day starter for the eighth consecutive year, extending his club record when Houston opens its season against the San Francisco Giants on April 5 at Minute Maid Park. \"I know it\'s kind of a foregone conclusion fo.. |
| Mar 20 | Nationals send Strasburg to Double-A (AP) Stephen Strasburg was sent to the minor leagues on Saturday by the Washington Nationals, who told baseball\'s top pitching prospect he needed to slow down his delivery from the stretch in order to speed up his arrival in the majors. \"I\'m not a believe.. |