Yanks, Cano talking 6-year deal  —  The Yankees and star second baseman Robinson Cano are in serious negotiations on a deal that could keep him in pinstripes for up to six years, SI.com has confirmed.  —  The contract being discussed would pay Cano a guaranteed $30 million over the next four years …

Wright: Lo Duca deserves penalties if report true  —  David Wright's feelings about players' use of peformance-enhancing drugs are firm — even when it comes to good friend Paul Lo Duca's connection to the Mitchell report.  —  The New York Mets third baseman said Wednesday that his former teammate deserves …

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 …

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.

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.

Three weeks until it begins anew  —  It might not feel like it to most of you out there across North America, but winter as we baseball hacks know it is quickly fading.  Seems hard to believe, but it's just three weeks until we relocate to Dark Star for six weeks of painful wakeup calls …

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.

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 …

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.

Large number of players still seeking employment … 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 …

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.