6B THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SPORTS
MLB
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2006
Player leaves camp
Royals pitcher travels home for personal reasons
BY ALAN ESKEW
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
"I'm not going to go through a checklist of things out of respect to Zack and his family. I will tell you that right now, it is not drugs. He didn't get kicked out of camp or anything like that."
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SURPRISE, Ariz. — Kansas City had hoped to build Future pitching staffs around 22-year-old Zack Greinke, but now it's not likely he'll even be in the Royals start-ing rotation when the season starts April 3.
Allard Baird Royals general manager
"We're going about it, quite frankly, that Zack is not going to be here in time to get ready for the rotation," Royals manager Buddy Bell said after Monday's practice. "We pretty much are preparing for the worst right now. That could change. I don't think it will."
Greinke left camp Sunday, with the club's permission, to return to his home in Orlando, Fla. No one knows when he will return.
Bell said Greinke's chances of making the starting rotation depended on how long he stayed out of training camp.
"It affects it a lot, depending when he can come back," Bell said. "If he would come
back tomorrow, which isn't going to be the case, there's no issue."
General Manager Allard Baird said there is no timetable for the return of Greinke, who led the American League with 17 losses last season.
Bell said that for Greinke to be ready for a possible start on April 14 — the first time the Royals will need a fifth starter — he would need to get back to Surprise "in time to get in shape and show he can get people out."
Starting pitchers normally build up to around 90 pitches in March to prepare for the season.
"Quite honestly, I think that is a long shot," Bell said.
Bell said he had not spoken to Greinke since he went to Florida, but planned to call him later Monday "to keep in touch with him and see how he's doing."
Baird said there could still be time for Greinke to earn a place in the rotation.
"If he left March 15, that would be a different story." Baird said. "We haven't played a game yet. No pitcher has pitched a pitch yet in a game, so to me that does not factor in. The most important thing for us right now, really, is for him to take care of the personal matter. Everything else is secondary."
Baird said Greinke's reason for leaving "is completely personal."
OLYMPICS
OLYMPICS Everyone's a winner at 2006 Winter Games
- including first-time winners Slovakia and Latvia - earned at least one medal, up from a high of 24 in 1998 and 2002.
And 11 countries won at least 10 medals - the previous mark was 10 countries at Nagano in 1998.
TURIN, Italy — Germany and the United States won the most medals at a share-the-wealth Turin Olympics that featured more countries winning medals and more in double figures than ever before.
Apolo Anton Ohno upset favored South Korean Ahn Hyun-soon to win the gold medal in 500-meter short track speedskating Saturday night. He later won a bronze in the 5,000-meter relay.
Germany led in Turin in overall medals with 29 and golds with 11, while the Americans won 25 medals overall, nine of them gold.
American Bode Miller ended his medal-less Olympics by straddling a gate near the beginning of his men's slalom run Saturday, disqualifying him from the event.
Twenty-six countries
Gerry Browne/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Ricardo Rincon winds up during Major League Baseball spring training in Jupiter, Fla., Monday. Rincon was delayed in arriving to training camp due to visa problems.
The Associated Press
Gerry Broome/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cardinal flies into training late
BY CHRIS TUNNO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
JUPITER, Fla. — Ricardo Rincon finally made it to the St. Louis Cardinals spring training camp Monday, and immediately began throwing live batting practice.
The 35-year-old left-handed reliever, signed to a two-year, $2.9 million free-agent contract in December, had been a no-show, fighting visa problems in his native Mexico. Rincon wasted little time in meeting with manager Tony La Russa to smooth any hard feelings.
"I talked to Tony and he's happy now." Rincon said.
La Russia said Rincon had been working out in Mexico, so he decided to have him throw live batting practice. He threw to a group that included Albert Pujols, Scott Rolen, David Eckstein, Junior Spivey, Chris Duncan and Rick Ankiel.
"He has been working, but there's a difference between throwing to friends at home and our guys in camp." La Russa said.
"I think he's doing everything at the plate ahead of what we expected," La Russa said. "I haven't really talked
The workouts on Monday were the last before the Cardinals begin exhibition play against Florida Atlantic today. The first game against a major league team is Thursday against the New York Mets in Jupiter.
Rolen, coming back from a shoulder injury that forced him to miss most of last season, continued to show good progress and could play by this weekend. La Russa said.
to him about this weekend, but my guess is he'll probably play."
The practice was concluded with an intrasquad scrimmage in which two teams of 10 players received two at-bats in a simulated game
format against pitching instructor Mark Riggins. Skip Schumaker, Duncan and Ankiel all hit home runs in an 8-8 tie.
La Russa said Ankiel will start in center field against Florida Atlantic.
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