Phillies still bidding for prize ace  —  Ken Rosenthal has been the senior baseball writer for FOXSports.com since Aug. 2005.  He appears weekly on MLB on FOX.  Follow him on Twitter.  —  The Yankees and Rangers are not alone.  —  The Phillies are still bidding for free-agent left-hander Cliff Lee …

Sources: New York Yankees, Texas Rangers unlikely Zack Greinke fits  —  The stakes are high as the New York Yankees and Texas Rangers wait for free agent Cliff Lee to decide where he'll be pitching in 2011 and beyond.  The winner of the Lee sweepstakes will have an ace left-hander to plug in at the top of its rotation.

Matsui gets physical tomorrow, then press conference in afternoon  —  Hideki Matsui won't take his A's physical until tomorrow morning, The Chronicle has learned from two sources, so there won't be any announcement today, unless it's one of those “pending a physical” types of announcements, and the A's don't really do those.

Wilson, Oberkfell among new Mets coaches  —  NEW YORK — Sandy Alderson has his manager.  Now, Terry Collins has his staff.  —  The Mets officially announced their 2011 coaching staff Monday, naming Dave Hudgens their new hitting coach, Ken Oberkfell bench coach, Mookie Wilson first-base coach and Jon Debus bullpen coach.

Dodgers add three on Minor League deals  —  LOS ANGELES — The Dodgers on Monday announced the signings of three veterans to Minor League contracts with invitations to Major League camp.  —  Infielder Juan Castro, catcher JD Closser and utilityman Eugenio Velez have signed on …

MLB's Average Salary Finishes Over $3 Million  —  NEW YORK (AP) — The average salary in Major League Baseball finished over $3 million for the first time.  —  The 912 players in the big leagues before rosters expanded in September averaged $3,014,572, the Major League Baseball Players Association said Monday.

Heaven can wait, says Weaver  —  The New York Times said he was dead.  But Earl Weaver, the Orioles' former manager, says it will take more than a story in the newspaper to see him off.  —  Weaver, 80, is alive and kicking - though with less animation than he did around umpires …

Texas Rangers sign Matt Treanor  —  The Texas Rangers announced Monday that they have re-signed free agent catcher Matt Treanor to a one-year contract worth $850,000 for 2011.  —  “We appreciated the qualities that Matt brought to our club in 2010, both on the field and the presence he had in our clubhouse …

Blogger Ethics  —  Been putting together a few quick baseball thoughts — was going to throw them together into one massive blog post.  But then I thought that it would make me look so much more productive if I separated them and posted them throughout the day.  So that's what I'll do.