Grapefruit and Cactus League games are just starting, a time when it’s tough to identify many of the players without a program, especially those with numbers higher than Tiger Woods’s scoring average. In hockey those numbers are often worn by the likes of Jaromir Jagr or Eric Lindros, but in baseball, they’re given to players…
Continuing our look around the divisions at what spots on whose rosters are being contested: Chicago White Sox The most obvious competition in camp is for the fifth rotation spot, where a notionally healthy and genuinely expensive Cal Eldred will do his level best to prove he deserves one-third as much patience as Jaime Navarro…
Exhibition games begin today, and performances over the next four weeks will go a long way towards determining who gets a chance at fame and fortune and who gets six at-bats a week. In the AL East, there are a couple of knock-down, drag-out job battles that will bear watching throughout March. Delino DeShields vs….