Wallace Matthews  —  Spending on everyone but Willie  —  Perhaps if Willie Randolph were still a player, and not the manager who led them to within a victory of the World Series, the Mets would show him a little more respect and a lot more money.  —  Over the past month …

Fan fined $1,000, ordered away from Shea Stadium  —  A Mets fan who impersonated a reporter last season was fined $1,000 on Tuesday and ordered to stay away from Mets home games for the next three years.  —  Ryan Leli, 18, was also ordered to stay away from Brooklyn Cyclones games …

Around the Horn: Outfielders  —  Jenkins seeks comeback season; Brewers to try Hall in outfield … MILWAUKEE — Geoff Jenkins is heading into a contract year, but he's more concerned about making it a statement year.  —  The Brewers figure to have a knockdown, drag-out Spring Training …

Chicago native Cliff Floyd agrees to one-year deal with Cubs  —  The Chicago Cubs today announced that the club has agreed to terms with outfielder and first baseman Cliff Floyd on a one-year deal with a mutual option for the 2008 season.  —  Floyd, 34, owns a .279 career batting average …

MLB TV deal gets fuzzy reception  —  So here comes Major League Baseball in a quick, shortsighted money grab (again), selling out its core fans (again) and telling everyone (again) how the sport ought to be consumed.  —  Here comes MLB, as arrogant and detached as ever, ready to limit its popular …

Ex-Yank Leyritz: Good riddance, Randy  —  NEW YORK - As badly as one wanted to leave, another wanted to stay.  The winters of Randy Johnson and Bernie Williams took different paths, and those paths were a hot topic last night at a dinner honoring the 1977 Yankees.

Rays to pad infield depth with Pena … ST. PETERSBURG - Seeking to increase depth with their infield plans unsettled, the Devil Rays are close to signing first baseman Carlos Pena to a minor-league deal.  —  Under some alignments, the Rays could end up with Ty Wigginton and Greg Norton splitting time at first base.

Frank Robinson to work for ESPN … BRISTOL, CONN. // Former Washington Nationals manager and Orioles legend Frank Robinson will be a special analyst for ESPN as it celebrates the 60th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's breaking of baseball's color barrier.  —  Frank Robinson …

This old park  —  Fenway capacity expands after offseason upgrades  —  BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Red Sox will be able to squeeze several hundred more fans into Fenway Park for each game this season thanks to another winter of improvements that allow the team to increase the ballpark's legal capacity.

NL West is baseball's glamor division  —  The eternal debate over who's hot and who's not is driven by an even more maddening question: What, exactly, is the definition of hot?  —  In identifying baseball's hottest division, do we mean the trendiest (most attractive to free agents) …

Memorable statistics  —  Ten statistical facts I had mostly forgotten from last season that I think are worth remembering as we move closer to another spring training:  —  1. Chad Bradford gave up just one homer in 62 innings - No major leaguer pitched as many innings and yielded so few homers last year.

Blue Jays Join Growing Gulf Coast League  —  A busy offseason for the Gulf Coast League continued when the Blue Jays added a sixth affiliate and joined the Florida-based Rookie-level league.  —  The Blue Jays pulled out of the Appalachian League at the conclusion of the 2006 season …

What Rangers get from Sosa is anybody's guess  —  You want my honest opinion on Sammy Sosa?  —  OK.  I've got no clue.  —  The arguments pro and con Sosa are easy to understand, which makes it all the more difficult to choose which is the right one.  —  Might he have something left to offer after a year of seclusion?