Price signs $14 million deal with Rays
NEW YORK (AP) — Tampa Bay left-hander David Price got a big deal, a $14 million, one-year contract. That will be just a small fraction of the mega-contract Clayton Kershaw and the Los Angeles Dodgers are likely to finalize Friday on one of the busiest days of baseball’s offseason calendar.
Price, the 2012 AL Cy Young Award winner, agreed to the biggest single-season salary in Rays history. The three-time All-Star, eligible for free agency after the 2015 season, hopes he remains with the budget-minded franchise.
New Oakland closer Jim Johnson, acquired from Baltimore last month, agreed to a $10 million, one-year deal with the Athletics, who also struck a $2.3 million deal with catcher John Jaso. Johnson’s 50 saves tied for the big league lead last year, when he was 3-8 with a 2.94 ERA.
Others who agreed included Philadelphia right-hander Kyle Kendrick ($7,675,000), Mets first baseman Ike Davis ($3.5 million), Colorado right-hander Wilton Lopez ($2.2 million), Cincinnati outfielder Chris Heisey ($1.76 million), Kansas City left-hander Tim Collins ($1,362,500) and Yankees catcher Francisco Cervelli ($700,000).
Reed leads after 1st round at Humana
LA QUINTA, Calif. (AP) — Patrick Reed went low in perfect scoring and weather conditions at the Humana Challenge. He wasn’t alone.
Reed ran off five straight birdies in the middle of his round on PGA West’s Arnold Palmer Private Course and finished with a bogey-free 9-under 63.
Ryan Palmer, Justin Hicks, Daniel Summerhays and Charley Hoffman shot 64. Palmer played the Palmer course, Hicks and Summerhays opened on the Jack Nicklaus Private Course, and Hoffman, the 2007 winner, was at La Quinta Country Club.
Shaun White earns spot in Olympics
MAMMOTH LAKES, Calif. (AP) — Shaun White earned his spot in the Olympics — winner of Thursday’s second slopestyle qualifying event despite a nasty, face-first fall in the first contest that almost caused him to scrub the whole day.
White strung together three straight dazzling jumps to score a 95.2, then sat out his second run but got the win when none of the other 12 competitors could do better.
The victory made White the top American in two of the four qualifiers and guaranteed a spot on the U.S. Olympic team.
Long-time boxing head dies
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Jose Sulaiman, the longtime head of the World Boxing Council who promoted renowned fighters and introduced rules to protect boxers, died Thursday. He was 82.
Sulaiman’s son, Mauricio Sulaiman, said the man who many say raised the profile of the sport in his four-decade leadership at the Mexico-based council died at a hospital in Los Angeles. He had been hospitalized at the University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center for months for a heart condition.
The WBC confirmed his death, calling him the “father of boxing.” Sulaiman was a member of boxing’s Hall of Fame since 2006.
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