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.

I'm OK, You're OK  —  I think the most productive discussion is the one where, after spirited debate, each person argues in favor of his opponent's case.  And the least productive is when each person comes away convinced he is right and has demolished his opponent's arguments.

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.