Notes: Sosa gets his shot  —  Right-hander takes El Duque's spot in rotation on Saturday  —  PHOENIX — With Oliver Perez progressing, the Mets have added another project to their rotation.  The promotion of Jorge Sosa and the assignment of the right-handed veteran to start …

Baseball's Steroid Panel Asks Active Players to Appear  —  The chairman of the special commission set up to examine the use of performance-enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball said for the first time yesterday that he has asked a number of active players to appear before the commission …

Brewers' owner likes rare view from above  —  MILWAUKEE — His friends told him he was absolutely nuts.  His wife, Debbie, figured he was joking or going through a midlife crisis.  —  PHOTO GALLERY: The '07 Brewers how they lookin'?  —  "The Milwaukee Brewers?"  Mark Attanasio kept hearing over and over from friends.

Soriano keys Cubs' rally past Nationals  —  CHICAGO (AP) — Derrek Lee homered, Alfonso Soriano had a key RBI double before scoring the go-ahead run against his former team and the Chicago Cubs rallied from four runs down Friday to beat the Washington Nationals 6-4.

Aim For The Head: Aim For the Front Office  —  Baseball Prospectus has, since its inception, been dedicated to the concept that that there are better ways for major league baseball teams to make decisions.  Augmenting conventional, scouting-based reports with objective evidence gathered through analysis …

D-Day For MLB Extra Innings  —  Today is the deadline for any carrier that did not already ink a deal for MLB Extra Innings to get an agreement signed, or they will be unable to negotiate for the package until 2013 when DirecTV and iN Demand's deal with MLB expires.As we've been reporting …

Police: Hancock was legally drunk at time of crash  —  ST. LOUIS — St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Josh Hancock was drunk at the time of his fatal accident, and marijuana was found in the sport utility vehicle he was driving.  —  Police Chief Joe Mokwa also said at a news conference Friday …

Indians lose home game due to snowouts  —  BALTIMORE (AP) — The Cleveland Indians will lose a home game and three days off in making up the four-game series against Seattle that was postponed last month by snow.  —  The games of April 6-8 will be played at Jacobs Field on May 21, June 11 and Aug. 30.

Tale of two failures — so far  —  Cubs spent big, White Sox held line and results are bad on both sides of town, but North Siders still could find their way to postseason play  —  The Cubs spent $300 million, defining a new pricey market for free agents and saying they were going for the World Series.

Loewen diagnosed with stress fracture in elbow … Orioles pitcher Adam Loewen has been diagnosed with a stress fracture in his left elbow and isn't expected to return to the mound until late in the season.  —  Loewen had a bone scan and magnetic resonance imaging test this morning …

Prospectus Hit List: One Month Down  —  A Little Bit of Wright and a Big Bowl of Wrong: David Wright homers for the first time this year, but the rest of the news out of Queens isn't so good.  Injuries sideline Orlando Hernandez and Jose Valentin, and neither Mike Pelfrey …

Wait a sec, they're in second … ST. PETERSBURG — There were a lot of unusual things going on Thursday at Tropicana Field.  —  There was a mannequin in a Twins uniform playing defense on a catwalk.  Carl Crawford the contestant in the nightly stumble around the bases contest.

Pray it ain't so!  —  Torre sis goes mum as she loses principal job at Queens school  —  Say it ain't so, Joe - a Torre is about to get a pink slip, but it's not who you think.  —  Sister Marguerite Torre will soon be out of work after 26 years as the beloved principal of the Nativity …

Piazza to DL on busy day for A's  —  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The Oakland Athletics placed designated hitter Mike Piazza on the 15-day disabled list because of a sprained right shoulder Friday and purchased the contract of outfielder-DH Jack Cust from Triple-A Sacramento.