A Long Struggle To Get Back Up And Running  —  16 Months After Breaking Leg, Nats' Johnson Is Ready to Battle for the Job at First Base  —  SACRAMENTO — It is 8:40 a.m., and the sun is just beginning to bake through the windows of a gym that sits anonymously in a business park on the edge of California's capital city.

Sox' Henry delivers hard sell … Fenway Park isn't getting any younger and that will not help the Red Sox [team stats] compete on the revenue front with the Yankees and Mets in the years to come, team owner John Henry pointed out yesterday.  —  The final payroll information regarding …

Canseco Is Said to Seek Favor to Omit Name  —  José Canseco, the former major league slugger and admitted steroid user who exposed other players in his 2005 best-selling book “Juiced,” offered to keep a Detroit Tigers outfielder “clear” in his next book if the player invested money …

Chat with Keith Law  —  Welcome to The Show!  On Thursday, Scouts, Inc. senior baseball analyst, Keith Law, will stop by to talk some baseball.  —  Keith was formerly the special assistant to the general manager with the Toronto Blue Jays and has a wealth of knowledge for you to tap into.

Giants have the Wright stuff  —  David Wright is no celebrity bandwagon-jumper - he has been a Giants fan since he was a kid growing up in Norfolk, Va., and he started rooting for Big Blue simply because his father is a Redskins fan.  On a Major League Baseball trip to Japan in November of 2006 …

Schrodinger's Bat  —  Simple Fielding Runs Version 1.0  —  “Let him hit it, you've got fielders behind you."  —Alexander Cartwright, attributed by Bob Chieger in Voices of Baseball  —  When it comes to fielding analysis, there really is no such thing as simple.

Crasnick: Many players still looking for a job … With the exception of the Johan Santana and Erik Bedard trade talks and another round of congressional steroid hearings, baseball's hot stove season appears to be on a straight shot toward pitchers and catchers reporting to spring training camps.

Santana's Hometown Awaits His Next Move  —  TOVAR, Venezuela — “Welcome to the territory of Johan Santana,” reads a sign on the wall of the local baseball field in this Andean town more than 6,400 feet above sea level in southwestern Venezuela.  —  Santana, the Minnesota Twins' ace and perhaps …

Yanks nearing four-year deal with Cano  —  The Yankees, locking up one of their young stars, are on the verge of signing second baseman Robinson Cano to a four-year, $30 million contract, according to major-league sources.

MacPhail checks swing in first offseason  —  With spring training looming, O's president takes a lot of pitches for Bedard, Roberts  —  Three weeks from today, pitchers and catchers will take the field at Fort Lauderdale Stadium for the Orioles' first workout of the spring.

Tulo lands a big deal  —  Rapid rise rewarded with record contract  —  Troy Tulowitzki isn't a shortstop.  He's a pixie dust-speckled short story.  —  Seventeen months ago he wore topsiders and jeans on his first big-league road trip.  Eleven months ago he arrived at spring training without a starting job.