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New Rockies manager Weiss: Work it out on fly

Associated Press, ESPN.com

Dick Monfort entered the room inside Coors Field to a sound he hasn't heard in quite some time -- applause.

CNNSI.com

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP) -- Josh Hamilton, B.J. Upton and Kyle Lohse were among nine free agents who turned down $13.3 million offers from their former clubs Friday as the annual general managers' ended and team officials headed home for what figures t…

CNNSI.com

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) -- Lee MacPhail, the longtime baseball executive who ruled in the celebrated Pine Tar case and later became part of the only father-son Hall of Fame pairing, has died. He was 95.

Ken Gurnick, MLB.com

General manager Ned Colletti left one meeting Friday and headed for another, as the General Managers Meetings ended in the desert and the Dodgers' organizational meetings start next week in Los Angeles.

CNNSI.com

Major League Baseball has a drug problem again and is engaged in discussions with the players' association regarding what to do about it. The very specific problem is the use of fast-acting synthetic testosterone, the primary performance-enhancing drug …

Mark Townsend, yahoo.com

Nearly three years removed from his interview with Bob Costas where he admitted using steroids during his playing career, former St. Louis Cardinals slugger and new Los Angeles Dodgers hitting coach Mark McGwire is now adamantly advising current and fut…