The way I heard it his past turned out to be alot worse than they thought. But their fallback is Bob Melvin? Was Buddy Bell unavailable?
The Expos will be probably known as the Washington Nationals
Don Mattingly, Joe Girardi, Chili Davis and Chuck Cottier are among candidates to replace Willie Randolph as the Yankees' bench coach under Joe Torre
The Detroit Tigers picked up P Ugeth Urbina's $4 million option for 2005
The Cubs signed SS Neifi Perez to a 1-year deal as insurance for Nomar Garciaparra
Baltimore declined the $3 million option on P Buddy Groom, opting to give him a $250,000 buyout
St.Louis picked the 2005 option on P Chris Carpenter and declined the $8 million option on P Woody Williams for 2005
Astros RF Lance Berkman will miss 5-6 months after tearing his right ACL playing flag football