Tampa Bay Rays' David Price is AL Cy Young runnerup behind Seattle Mariners' Felix Hernandez  —  ORLANDO — The idea of voting the award for the American League's best pitcher to Seattle's Felix Hernandez, who won only 13 games, is difficult for some people to understand.

Yankees will offer Jeter three years, about $45M  —  The Yankees are making their initial offer to Derek Jeter very soon, and it will be for three years and about $45 million.  —  Jeter has yet to name his asking price, but he's believed to seek more than that.  It's hard to imagine the sides not coming together eventually.

Drayton McLane Enlists New York Banking Firm to Sell Houston Astros  —  UPDATE: McLane has called a 2:30pm CT press conference at Minute Maid Park to discuss the sale.  —  Houston Astros owner Drayton McLane has passively trying to sell club for more than two years, but has now reportedly retained …

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Yanks hire coach Larry Rothschild  —  In a surprise announcement, the New York Yankees hired Larry Rothschild, the Chicago Cubs pitching coach for the past nine seasons, to succeed Dave Eiland as pitching coach.  —  “Larry brings a wealth of invaluable experience to our team and to our pitching staff …

Rangers losing their edge in Lee sweepstakes  —  Tweet  —  ORLANDO, Fla. — In the two-plus weeks since the World Series ended, you can already feel some of the momentum seeping away from the Rangers' confidence when it comes to keeping Cliff Lee.  —  Suddenly, like the rest of the sport …

Amaro: Ibanez is a subject Werth talking about  —  LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. - Walking by a gaggle of reporters on his way out of the posh Waldorf Astoria here at Disney World, Ruben Amaro Jr. held up his hand and formed a circle with his finger and thumb.  —  The message?  No news to report.

2010 DIRVA_PLUS pitching runs  —  Last year I introduced DIRVA_PLUS, a pitching metric specifically designed to look at the actual past performance of pitchers.  Unlike pitching metrics that are designed to measure a pitcher's true talent to be used in projecting future performance …

Yankees release Jonathan Albaladejo  —  The Yankees have released reliever Jonathan Albaladejo so that he can sign a contract to play in Japan.  —  Last season, the Yankees made it pretty clear that they didn't see a spot for Albaladejo in the big leagues.

Uggla Gladly Changes Numbers After Trade to Braves  —  ATLANTA (AP) — Dan Uggla will have to make one minor adjustment now that he's with the Atlanta Braves.  —  No. 6 is out.  —  That uniform number belonged to longtime manager Bobby Cox, who retired after the season, and it isn't likely to be donned by anyone else.

One end zone for offense at Wrigley  —  Only one end zone will be used for offense Saturday at Wrigley Field for the Illinois-Northwestern game because of safety concerns, the Big Ten announced Friday.  —  The east end zone is just feet away from the right-field wall, and although there is padding …

Rays maintain/lower most ticket prices, move up some game times  —  The Rays are slightly reducing or maintaining prices on more than 60 percent of their tickets for next season, and moving weeknight game times up a half-hour to 6:40 p.m. during April and May.  —  Those were the two biggest items in the information released today.

Choo one step closer to gold at Asian Games  —  CLEVELAND — Indians outfielder Shin-Soo Choo and his teammates on South Korea's national team are one step closer to winning gold at this year's Asian Games.  A medal, however, is hardly the only thing at stake.

Willingham harbors no ill will toward Nats  —  WASHINGTON — Agent Matt Sosnick said there aren't any hard feelings toward the Nationals, who have decided not to offer his client, outfielder Josh Willingham, a multiyear deal.  The club still has control of Willingham, who is in his last year of arbitration.

Justin Upton is great but it's not likely he'll become greater … Since the most valuable thing in baseball is a young star signed to a cheap contract, I was fairly shocked when I learned the Arizona Diamondbacks are, if not actively shopping outfielder Justin Upton, at least willing to listen to offers for him.