Pitchers and catchers -- in camp1

The day we've been waiting for since early last November: The first pitchers and catchers reported to spring training today.
More than a third (11) of the teams welcomed their batterymen to camps in Florida and (increasingly) Arizona.
Those same pitchers and catchers for the Diamondbacks, Cubs, Angels, Padres and Mariners in Arizona and the Orioles, Tigers, Phillies, Pirates, Cardinals and Blue Jays in the Sunshine State will hold the first official workouts of the spring Monday.
More than half of the pitchers and catchers will be in camp Monday and working out Tuesday, because six teams will be greetigg their poorest hitters Monday.
The only new training site is at Talking Stick in North Scottsdale, Ariz., where the D-backs and Rockies are moving from Tucson. The Orioles are changing locales, moving from Fort Lauderdale to Ed Smith Stadium in Sarasota, which the Reds abandoned a year ago to move to Goodyear, Ariz. There now are more teams training in the desert than among the beaches, swamps and strawberry fields of Florida.
USA Today reported that Cardinals 1B Albert Pujols rejected the team's offer for a contract extension. His agent, Danny Lozano, had said that his client wouldn't negotiate on the extension after he reports to spring training, which (according to USA Today) will be Tuesday, a day early. Pujols' contract will expire after this season, for which he's receiving $16 million.
There have been some minor free agent signings during this week, which I spent mostly in San Antonio and mostly with a migraine while I was there.
Yankees: 3B/1B Eric Chavez and RHP Luis Ayala
Mariners: RHP Manny Delcarmen
Red Sox: RHP Alfredo Aceves, LHP Dennys Reyes
Rockies: RHP Claudio Vargas
Ayala and an aging minor league invitee, 1B Jorge Vazquez, will be at New York's training site in Tampa after performing well in winter ball.
Speaking of winter ball, even though it's summer ball there, the Australian Baseball League playoffs concluded today. The Perth Heat, who played the entire best-of-three series at home, lost the first game but came back to win the final two games.
In Game 3, the Heat defeated the Adelaide Bite 7-1. RHP Benjamin Moore painted the corners and shut out Adelaide until 3B Stefan Welch (Mets organization) hit a ninth-inning solo homer. Moore's pitching line was 94110 10. For Perth, LF Robert Widlansky hit a two-run homer in a four-run eighth inning. A "crowd" of 1,876 saw that game, played without a full complement of network TV commercials in 2:22.
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