Tuesday, March 05, 2002
Baseball notebook
Labor talks back on but Beeston out
The Associated Press
Paul Beeston, chief operating officer of major league baseball, will leave the commissioner's office at mid-month, a high-ranking official said Monday night.
The date of Beeston's departure was revealed after collective bargaining resumed in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., and management told the players' association that Beeston no longer was part of its negotiating team.
The official disclosed that management had asked the union to make changes to salary arbitration.
Owners want to eliminate arbitration each year for the dozen or so players with 2-to-3 years of major league service currently eligible, a right the union won in the 1990 labor contract.
Otherwise, union head Donald Fehr said there were no major events at the negotiating session, which lasted for about two hours.
“We asked a series of questions about their proposals of last week,” he said.
The sides, seeking an agreement to replace the one that expired Nov. 7, are to have staff-level talks today before resuming full negotiations the following day. Thus far, neither side has threatened what would be baseball's ninth work stoppage since 1972.
RANGERS:
Texas was fined an undisclosed amount by the baseball commissioner's office on Monday for the hiring of Grady Fuson from Oakland as assistant general manager.
The ruling is the result of a complaint filed in November by the Oakland Athletics. They said the Rangers interviewed Fuson for the job of general manager, rather than the scouting position for which he was hired.
The Rangers hired John Hart from Cleveland as general manager.
INDIANS:
Outfielder Alex Escobar, the key player in the trade that sent All-Star second baseman Roberto Alomar to the New York Mets, injured his left knee Monday in an exhibition game.
Escobar was to undergo an MRI examination on the knee Monday night at Winter Haven Hospital.
RED SOX:
Boston hired former Texas general manager Doug Melvin as a consultant Monday, the third major appointment by Boston's new owners in five days.
• Diamondbacks 4, Brewers 2, at Phoenix — Randy Johnson struck out five of six batters he faced and Luis Gonzalez hit his first homer of the spring, but big story for Arizona was the return of Todd Stottlemyre.
“This wasn't my day, this was Todd's day,” Johnson said.
In his first game since Sept. 21, 2000, Stottlemyre allowed two runs on three hits in two innings as Arizona beat Milwaukee 4-2. He struck out two, walked one and hit a batter.
“Lots of times I thought this day would never come,” he said.
• Cardinals 13, Orioles 4, at Jupiter, Fla. — Bud Smith, who pitched a no-hitter late last season, made his first start and gave up just one run.
Smith faced the minimum of seven batters through 2 1/3 innings before giving up a run.
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