The Los Angeles Dodgers need pitcher Randy Wolf to have a strong season if they are going to make the playoffs. Wolf is an underrated player with a 90-78 record and 1,227 strikeouts against 547 walks in 1,468 innings.
ESPN's Eric Young tells Jonathan Papelbon to zip it.
Plus, there's an addition to the Orioles' family.
Oh, and we have a happy Fidel.
So, Eric Young says Jonathan Papelbon broke an unspoken rule. No, not the one that says if you come up as a Kansas City Royals outfielder you'll become an All-Star for another team. (We're talking Raul Ibanez, Jermaine Dye, Johnny Damon and Carlos Beltran). Young is talking about the whole telling the truth thing.
As usual, we leadoff with a quick tour of the spring training news from region's teams:
- A big story in camp with the Baltimore Orioles is the battle for closer. In one corner you have George Sherrill, in the other you have Chris Ray. And Congratulations to outfielder Nick Markakis: He's a dad.
- In Nationals camp, The Washington Times has a profile of Lastings Milledge. A former Orioles' work-in-progress is now a Nationals' work-in-progress: Daniel Cabrera.
- J.A. Happ threw some heat at former teammate Pat Burrell. The message: none. But Ole' Cholly was impressed.
We follow that up with a short trip to some other camps:
- The New York Mets' Johan Santana had a good outing.
- The Daily News' Mike Lupica looks at the Alex Rodriguez situation. As if we needed to talk about him again. However, Lupica has some fresh takes in his piece
- So, other than power, what does Pat Burrell bring to the Tampa Bay Rays?
- Pedro is the talk of Dodgertown.
- Eric Byrnes seems like a nice guy after what the Arizona Republic reports he did.
- Is the guy with the 9.82 ERA going to be the Mariners closer? Is Seattle that desperate?
Hitting third is a quick recap of any World Baseball Classic news:
- Yesterday it was Hugo Chavez, now it's Fidel Castro. The World Baseball Classic is making a U.S. antagonists pretty happy for the second straight day.
- Here's a quick look at the match-ups from this round.
And lastly we look at league-wide issues and stories:
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