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Alex Sanchez Bids For Marlins' Job

Alex Sanchez is trying to return to the major leagues with the Marlins after being the first player penalized two years ago under baseball's toughened steroids policy.

"I'm here to prove to everybody that I can still play. I've got some good things to give to this team," Sanchez said Thursday. He hit .297 last year for Cincinnati's Chattanooga affiliate. A veteran of 1,527 major league at-bats with a .296 career average, the center fielder was released by mid-June.

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Griffey Comes Clean On How Injury Happened

After months of rampant speculation, Ken Griffey, Jr. revealed that he broke his left hand in December while wrestling with his three children on the family yacht in the Bahamas.

Griffey explained that he was wrestling with his two youngest children, Tevin and Taryn, when then-12-year-old son Trey joined in. It was at that point when an awkward fall had the elder Griffey land on his left throwing hand.

"He just doesn't know his own strength yet," Griffey said of Trey, now 13. "He's at that age where he's getting to be a man. A little leverage and a little height helped. I also didn't want to land on my four-year-old, too."

Trey took the accident hard, but Griffey was quick to offer his son consolation.

"It was one of those things. We were messing around, and he got me," Griffey said. "I just told him it was an accident. 'I'm your dad, better me than you.' It's going to happen."

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Joe Nuxhall Hospitalized

Former Reds pitcher and broadcaster Joe Nuxhall has been hospitalized in Florida for tests for a recurrence of lymphoma, his son said Friday.

The 78-year-old Nuxhall was in Sarasota for the start of the team's spring training when he went to Sarasota Memorial Hospital on Wednesday for previously scheduled tests, son Kim Nuxhall said.

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