http://daymlb.com MLB - major league baseball Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:32:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Chicago Cubs and free agent Milton Bradley reached a preliminary agreement Monday on a $30 million, three-year contract, according to a person familiar with the negotiations. The deal is subject to a physical scheduled for Thursday, the person said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the deal had not been ... http://daymlb.com/5951/mlb-baseball-news/baseball-news/bradley-cubs-agree-to-30m-3-yr-deal/ Still looking for a closer, the St Louis Cardinals might consider turning to oft-injured ace Chris Carpenter next season. Cardinals manager Tony La Russa told The Associated Press on Monday that he'd think about using the 2005 NL Cy Young Award winner in that role if it were the best way ... http://daymlb.com/5950/mlb-baseball-news/baseball-news/chris-carpenter-could-close-for-cardinals/ Carl Pohlad, a billionaire banker whose Minnesota Twins won two World Series titles during nearly his nearly quarter-century as owner, died Monday. He was 93. The Twins and Major League Baseball each issued a statement confirming his death. Baseball commissioner Bud Selig called Pohlad "a true leader in our sport for ... http://daymlb.com/5949/mlb-baseball-news/baseball-news/minnesota-twins-owner-carl-pohlad-dead-at-age-93/ Not quite a month ago at the winter meetings, I stalked the Bellagio lobbies and corridors hoping to identify the Manny Ramirez market, only to feel like an out-of-towner whod gone looking for a wall clock. Apparently focused more on CC Sabathia, Mark Teixeira and Juan Rivera, few teams admitted more ... http://daymlb.com/5948/mlb-baseball-news/baseball-news/manny-maneuvering-intensifies/ Andruw Jones once made it look easy, and maybe thats the root of the problem. Maybe baseball WAS easy for him, perhaps too easy. Maybe he lost his focus somewhere along the way. Maybe he got bored. Whatever the reason, Andruw Jones is one of the real strange stories in sports because few ... http://daymlb.com/5947/mlb-baseball-news/baseball-news/is-andruw-jones-career-already-over/ A construction worker at the new Yankee Stadium was taken to a hospital after falling 4 feet off a mobile scaffold. The city Department of Buildings said the worker was jolted off the scaffold when one of its wheels hit a drain Friday afternoon. Firefighters earlier estimated the fall at 12 ... http://daymlb.com/5946/mlb-baseball-news/baseball-news/4-ft-fall-sends-yankee-stadium-worker-to-hospital/ Andruw Jones and the Los Angeles Dodgers are apparently parting ways. The Los Angeles Times reported Saturday that the Dodgers have agreed to trade or release Jones in exchange for his deferring the $22 million remaining on his contract, essentially shaving $12 million off the club payroll this year. If the report ... http://daymlb.com/5945/mlb-baseball-news/baseball-news/of-jones-likely-done-in-los-angeles/ Jeff Moorad resigned as chief executive officer of the Arizona Diamondbacks to pursue ownership of the San Diego Padres. The team promoted team president Derrick Hall to chief executive officer, Diamondbacks managing general partner Ken Kendrick said Friday. Moorad will maintain his share of Diamondbacks ownership but would have to sell that ... http://daymlb.com/5944/mlb-baseball-news/baseball-news/moorad-resigns-from-d-backs-to-try-to-buy-padres/ First baseman Tony Clark is returning to the Arizona Diamondbacks, agreeing Friday to an $800,000, one-year contract. The 36-year-old Clark played for Arizona from 2005-2007 and had a prominent role on the 2007 NL West champions. He left after that season to sign with San Diego but returned to the Diamondbacks ... http://daymlb.com/5943/mlb-baseball-news/baseball-news/diamondbacks-1b-tony-clark-agree-to-1-year-deal/ A state assemblyman investigating the financing for the Mets and Yankees new ballparks wants to postpone a vote on additional public bonds for the projects. Assemblyman Richard Brodsky released a letter Friday requesting the city Industrial Development Agency to delay the Jan. 16 vote. The teams are asking the city for $450 ... http://daymlb.com/5942/mlb-baseball-news/baseball-news/lawmaker-wants-to-postpone-mets-yanks-bond-vote/