Tejada Charged With Lying to Investigators  —  Former Baltimore Orioles shortstop Miguel Tejada was charged today with lying to congressional investigators about the use of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball.  —  Federal prosecutors accused Tejada of making misrepresentations …

Play-by-play of the A-Rod interview, plus pics and commentary!  —  If you thought watching A-Rod bare his soul about steroids to Peter Gammons was fun, imagine how much enjoyment watching it over and over while writing down every word must have been.  I don't have to imagine it, because I did it last night.

Minor-league deal for Aurilia  —  (02-09) 17:33 PST — Rich Aurilia rejected minor-league offers from the Cubs, Phillies and Blue Jays to accept one from the Giants, he said Monday just before the team formally announced the deal.  Aurilia will earn $1 million if he makes the team.

St. Louis Cardinals release second baseman Adam Kennedy  —  St. Louis Cardinals second baseman Adam Kennedy can't handle a ball hit by Milwaukee Brewers' Bill Hall.  Kennedy was released by the Cardinals on February 9, 2009.  (Morry Gash/AP)  —  ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH

Posada makes about 140 throws, feels good  —  TAMPA, Fla. - Under the brilliant Florida sunshine, Jorge Posada stood on the rightfield grass at the Yankees' minor-league complex yesterday morning and did something that had to feel as good as anything he's done in nearly a year.  —  He played catch.

REHABBING SANTANA DECLINES WBC INVITE  —  PORT ST. LUCIE - Johan Santana will throw off the mound here today for the first time since having off-season knee surgery, but he won't be following that up with a stint in the World Baseball Classic.  —  Santana yesterday told The Post he plans …

Phillies keep relief options open  —  Now that Ryan Howard is signed to a three-year deal and the team's payroll is above $130 million, the Phillies are done dealing, right?  Not necessarily.  —  As the team's quest to add a righthanded-hitting bench player continues, so, too …

Looper agrees to one-year deal  —  By Tom Haudricourt of the Journal Sentinel  —  Unsure what the shopping list might look like down the road, the Milwaukee Brewers moved in to scoop up the best remaining arm on the free-agent market Monday.  —  The Brewers reached agreement on a one-year deal …

Baseball Prospectus picks Sox to finish first, Yanks second, Rays third  —  Here's a screen grab of Baseball Prospectus' MLB team projections for 2009.  BP guru Nate Silver nailed the 2008 presidential election, so his word seems to be gold these days.  Still, the projections are simply grist …

White Sox sign Broussard to minor league deal  —  The White Sox signed first baseman-outfielder Ben Broussard to a minor league contract.  —  Broussard, 32, has a lifetime .263 batting average with 87 home runs over parts of seven major league seasons with Cleveland, Seattle and Texas.

The Many (Awkward) Faces Of Alex Rodriguez  —  This was too easy.  For one thing, I sort of stole the idea from The Sports Hernia.  —  But really, any person on planet Earth would make a ton of retarded-looking faces when they are being grilled on SportsCenter in front of tens of millions of people about something of this magnitude.

Dodgers Sign Jeff Weaver  —  The Dodgers signed Jeff Weaver to a Minor League contract with an invitation to Major League training camp.  Weaver, 32, will receive a $500,000 salary if he makes the club.  —  Weaver, a starter throughout his Major League career, will vie for a bullpen role.

Kevin Youkilis on Alex Rodriguez, Manny Ramirez  —  Kevin Youkilis took to the picnic table to speak to the media today, sharing his thoughts, among other things, on Alex Rodriguez's steroid revelations and the prospects for the Red Sox [team stats]' offense this season.  —  Here's a couple of tidbits:

Olney outlasts Stark in six games … So, whom do we root for in this one?  Buster Olney, who gets up at 4 a.m. every day to write a blog?  Jayson Stark, who has relentlessly and hilariously collected more useless information over the past 30 years than any person in baseball?

MLBPA Releases Statement Explaining Why “Survey Test” Results Were Not Destroyed  —  As the revelation that Alex Rodriguez was one of 104 players in 2003 that tested positive during what was collectively bargained between MLB and the MLB Players Association as part of a “survey test” …

The path to Cooperstown: The catchers (Part 2)  —  In Part 1 of this series looking at the best catchers of the post-1920 period, I focused on catchers whose prime years ran eight or more seasons.  In this followup, I will look at the top catchers whose major league primes were shorter than that.