Sep 23 2008
Spring training 6 days longer next year (AP)
Spring training 6 days longer next year (AP)
Spring training is expanding by nearly a week next year because of the World Baseball Classic. Players will start reporting to training camps on Feb. 14, under an agreement between the players’ association and the commissioner’s office. Exhibition games will start about Feb. 25. “If spring training were shorter it would be great.
Pirates, 3B Alvarez nearing deal (AP)
Testimony was called off Tuesday as lawyers tried to complete a $6,355,000, four-year contract between third baseman Pedro Alvarez and the Pittsburgh Pirates and a settlement of a grievance filed by the players’ union. Arbitrator Shyam Das began hearing the case Sept. 10 and had scheduled additional testimony for Tuesday and Wednesday.
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