Steven Cohen, Dodgers bidder, may buy a piece of the Mets  —  The billionaire investor, in the running for purchase of the Dodgers, is on the verge of buying a share of the Mets.  If he were to buy the Dodgers, he would have sell any interest in the Mets.  —  Billionaire investor Steven Cohen …

Dear Brian Cashman, I Am Wearing Your Pajama Pants In Your Mistress's Living Room  —  Back in October, Deadspin acquired photos that showed Brian Cashman, general manager of the Yankees, meeting with an alleged girlfriend in February 2009.  Soon after that story ran, we were tipped off that Cashman …

Power rankings: No. 15 Blue Jays  —  Blue Jays are just 1 blockbuster trade away (think Votto)  —  Joey Votto hits a home run.  (Harry E. Walker / MCT Photo)  —  On Baseball  —  No. 15 Blue Jays: 16th in a series counting down to spring training.  Next: Dodgers.  —  One more year, two at the most.

Designated hitter skews home-run totals  —  No question, baseball's home run records are tarnished by those who spent part of their careers with artificially enhanced bodies, or have been suspected of it.  —  That said, why don't folks talk much — if at all — about that other great evil in this regard called the designated hitter?

Mets still looking for left-handed bat  —  The Mets are still interested in a left-handed hitting outfielder, CBSSports.com's Jon Heyman said last night on Twitter.  —  According to Heyman, at present, “the team appears to be trying to scrounge up the money.”

How are wins, attendance and payroll all related?  —  “...there are rich teams and there are poor teams.  Then there's fifty feet of crap.  And then there's us.”  — Moneyball (2011)  —  The release of Moneyball helped bring baseball economics into the mainstream.

ARREST ORDER ISSUED THEN REVOKED FOR PADILLA  —  According to La Prensa newspaper in Nicaragua, pitcher Vicente Padilla — who signed a minor league deal with the Red Sox earlier this month — had an arrest warrant issued for his failure to show up in court for a child support hearing, only to have the arrest order revoked later.

From games to gaming, Schilling on, well, pretty much everything … To Curt Schilling, no endeavor is appealing unless “I have a chance to be better than anyone else in the world.”  Run a marathon?  Forget it.  The idea of being halfway through a course when the winner crosses the finishes line, he said, holds no interest for him.

Source: Red Sox still have chance with Oswalt  —  BOSTON — After indicating late Friday night that pitcher Roy Oswalt was signing with the St. Louis Cardinals “soon,” the same major league source acknowledged Wednesday that Oswalt had not yet made a decision and that the Red Sox still “had a great chance” of signing him.

Sources: Plan to expand '12 playoffs not ready  —  Baseball commissioner Bud Selig continues to talk confidently about expanding the baseball playoff field in 2012.  But sources tell ESPN.com efforts to make that happen remain bogged down, all because of one thorny little complication: the details.

Who Would You Rather?  —  Now that Yu Darvish is a Texas Ranger, all of the attention on the international market has gone to Cuban defector Yoenis Cespedes.  Now that Cespedes has established residency in the Dominican Republic and is eligible to sign, the spotlight is growing brighter.