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Published on Friday, Mar 07, 2008
Associated Press
Kevin Frandsen is out as the San Francisco Giants' shortstop.
The infielder, 25, has been replaced in the lineup in Scottsdale, Ariz., by nonroster invitee Brian Bocock while the Giants continue to search for a temporary replacement for former Indians player Omar Vizquel.
Frandsen committed a team-leading three errors and was struggling at the plate before manager Bruce Bochy decided to make a change.
''We decided maybe the best thing for the club and Kevin is to go back to him working at second,'' Bochy said Thursday after the Giants' 9-1 loss to the Los Angeles Angels. ''To spend all this time at shortstop for possibly one week in the season is not fair to Kevin.''
Vizquel, 40, an 11-time Gold Glove winner, had surgery to remove a torn medial meniscus on Feb. 27. He was originally expected to be sidelined six weeks, but the team reported Wednesday that he was off crutches and progressing as planned.
Papelbon signs deal
The Boston Red Sox and closer Jonathan Papelbon agreed Thursday to a $775,000, one-year contract, nearly doubling his salary.
Papelbon was among 18 Red Sox players who agreed to one-year deals, putting Boston's entire 40-man major-league roster under contract.
Papelbon, 27, earned $425,550 last season, when he had 37 saves in 40 opportunities and a 1.85 ERA, then saved three of the four World Series games against the Colorado Rockies. He hoped to get a multiyear deal but had no leverage. He said he wanted a salary standard for future closers.
''I feel a certain obligation not only to myself and my family to make the money that I deserve but for the game of baseball,'' he said.
Surgery for Lowry
Giants pitcher Noah Lowry will have surgery on his left forearm today after a recent bout of wildness and is probably out until late April.
Lowry was the Giants' top winner with a 14-8 record last season. The lefty had trouble throwing strikes this spring and the team sent him back to the Bay Area to be examined by a hand specialist.
The Giants said Thursday that Lowry was diagnosed with exertional compartment syndrome. According to MayoClinic.com, it is ''an exercise-induced neuromuscular condition that causes pain, swelling and sometimes even disability in affected muscles of the legs or arms.'' It often affects athletes in their 20s.
First night game
Turn on the lights, the party's over at McKechnie Field.
The first night game in the 85-year-old history of one of spring training's most storied ballparks will be played tonight at the Pittsburgh Pirates' spring training home.
It's sort of a culture shock to laid-back Bradenton, Fla., a close-to-the-beach city of 53,600 residents on Florida's Gulf Coast that has hosted spring training since 1923 but has never witnessed a game played in anything but daylight.
''This is all new. We don't know what to do,'' said former Pirates reliever Kent Tekulve, a spring training instructor and a frequent Bradenton visitor.
Second chance
Former top draft pick Jeff Allison, out of baseball since 2005 while struggling with substance abuse, reported with Florida Marlins minor leaguers for his first workout.
At 23, he is serving three years' probation after pleading guilty to four felonies and four misdemeanors in October in Greensboro, N.C., including heroin possession and two counts of possessing a stolen vehicle.
Allison realizes he's down to his last chance. ''This is it,'' he said. ''It's time to grow up.''
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