Add fighting among themselves to the Mount Rainier-high list of problems the Seattle Mariners have right now.
Chone Figgins was in the Seattle Mariners lineup Saturday, a day after his very public dugout scuffle with manager Don Wakamatsu, although answers about the intense fifth-inning conflict were scarce.
The floor of the Red Sox clubhouse was filled with black equipment bags as players packed for their 10-day West Coast trip. Amid the clutter, the stuff that revealed the team's current condition was still hard to miss.
With a payroll swelling to nearly $100 million and a spectacular new open-air ballpark, this was supposed to be the season the Minnesota Twins took hold of the AL Central from the start and challenged the New York Yankees for the American League pennant.
BALTIMORE (AP) - They have been thrown together to rescue a franchise staggering through an agonizing run of futility. There isn't an undeniable All-Star in the bunch, and the majority of them have never experienced the feeling of contributing to a winner.
BALTIMORE (AP) — The Baltimore Orioles had just completed another dreadful season when club president Andy MacPhail announced at the organizational meeting in October that no longer would the team seek to sign midlevel free agents in an effort to compete with New York and Boston in the American League East.
With six weeks left in the season, there is still a race in every division.
