Friday, March 7, 2008

Rumblings from around the league

The Mets are the "team to beat" barring injury...since that was said...Moises Alou has gone down and will be out until May...

Mets search for OF option for Alou...

The Rangers have a surplus of outfielders and either Nelson Cruz or Jason Botts will be moving zip codes...

The Braves will most likely opt to not carry three catchers and Brayan Peña might be heading out of town before Spring Training is over...

Odalis Perez is impressing the Nationals, but must get into real games before he can snag a spot on the roster...

Bartolome Fortunato impressing the Giants with his "palm ball"...

Cuban Miguel Valdez has been hired as a special assistant to the Mets...

Giants' Noah Lowry to have surgery on pitching arm...

Marlins' Alfredo Amezaga's versatility not overlooked by Fredi Gonzalez...

Red Sox Jonathan Papelbon gets $775k deal...he needs to pitch another good year before discussing multi-year deal...he's no Mariano Rivera or Eric Gagne yet...

Mariner's Miguel Batista feeling back pain...

Bonds seen everywhere except a spring training camp...

Orioles' Brian Roberts still being mentioned in possible trade with Cubs...

Astros' Shawn Chacon to wear #1...

Anaheim fans can watch spring training games for free on Angels' website...