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A look at what's happening around spring training in Florida and Arizona on Monday:---READY TO GORockies outfielder Carlos Gonzalez expects to return to the lineup Monday after sitting out two days. After leaving Friday night's game against San Diego with pain in his surgically repaired left knee and missing...

GOODYEAR, Ariz. (AP) - Zach McAllister and T.J. House have won the two open jobs in the Cleveland Indians' starting rotation.Manager Terry Francona told the pitchers on Sunday before House started an exhibition against the Chicago White Sox. The left-handed House and McAllister will follow Cy Young Award winner...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuelan baseball officials say Seattle Mariners pitching prospect Victor Sanchez has died from head injuries he suffered in a boating accident last month.Sanchez's Venezuelan team, the Caracas Lions, issued a statement saying he died Saturday night after being in a coma 42 days.Sanchez was swimming...

KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) - The Houston Astros are looking for a link between the leadoff excellence of Jose Altuve and the business of scoring enough runs to win.George Springer, the free-spirited, free-swinging outfielder who hit 20 home runs in 78 games as a rookie, welcomes the assignment.''First of all,...

PEORIA, Ariz. (AP) - Colorado Rockies right fielder Carlos Gonzalez has left a spring training game with pain in his surgically repaired left knee.Gonzalez exited in the middle of the fourth inning Friday night against San Diego and walked to the clubhouse with a trainer. A team official says...

Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz says he ''never knowingly took any steroids'' and he's definitely a Hall of Famer.The remarks by the 39-year-old designated hitter come in a column Thursday for The Players' Tribune, a website founded by Derek Jeter that gives professional athletes a platform.Ortiz also voiced...

TORONTO (AP) - The upcoming season for the Toronto Blue Jays seems destined to be defined by the one young pitcher who'll miss it and the two even younger guys who'll try to replace him.Toronto's plans for ending baseball's longest active playoff drought took a serious hit when Marcus...

April 1 - Last day to request unconditional release waivers on a player without having to pay his full 2014 salary.April 5 - Opening day, St. Louis at Chicago Cubs. Active rosters reduced to 25 players.May 20-21 - Owners' meeting, New York.June 8 - Amateur draft begins.July 14 -...

SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) - Yordano Ventura has been picked to pitch on opening day for the AL champion Kansas City Royals against the Chicago White Sox.The 23-year-old right-hander went 14-10 with a 3.20 ERA as a rookie last season and tossed seven scoreless innings to beat San Francisco in...

Some pitchers have trouble finding the plate. Edwin Jackson of the Chicago Cubs had a much bigger problem: He couldn't find the ballpark.Jackson missed his spring training start Tuesday against the A's when he drove to the wrong stadium. Fitting, too - he once walked eight batters in a...

MESA, Ariz. (AP) - Cubs prospect Kris Bryant hit his ninth home run of the spring, but the Oakland Athletics roughed up a late-arriving Edwin Jackson in a 14-2 win over Chicago on Tuesday.Billy Butler and Stephen Vogt each hit two-run homers for Oakland.Jackson was scratched from his start...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Nick Peters, a former Spink Award winner who covered the San Francisco Giants for 47 years and loved to mentor young writers, has died. He was 75.Both the Giants and Peters' former employer, the Sacramento Bee, announced that he died Monday at his Northern California...