Photograph of Joe Torre and Willie Randolph greeting each other before a game in Port St. Lucie, FL, by Nati Harnik/AP Okay, Mets manager Willie Randolph hasn't been in pinstripes for a while, but this photograph of him saying hi to new Dodgers manager Joe Torre just seems like something from the bizarro world - not that there's anything wrong with that! Randolph, who was a Yankees coach under Torre, said, "It was a......

The Mets have finally landed a much needed arm to lead their rotation. USA Today is reporting that the Minnesota Twins and the Mets have agreed to terms for pitcher Johan Santana. The two-time Cy Young winner comes to the Mets at a high cost, with the Mets delivering outfielder Carlos Gomez and pitchers Phil Humber, Deolis Guerra and Kevin Mulvey to the Twins. Conditions of the deal include the Mets and Santana reaching agreement......

Florida police believe that Judith Leekin adopted 11 foster children, many of them special needs children, while she lived in Queens, collecting millions as she neglected them. After discovering one 18-year-old at a supermarket, police found other children in Leekin's Port St. Lucie home: They were malnourished, had scars on their hands from being handcuffed, left without access to a bathroom and were never schooled. The city's Administration for Children's Services is cooperating with Florida......

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a hostage situation on East 124th St. in Manhattan, a carjacking on Undercliff Ave. in the Bronx, and a home invasion robbery on East 18th St. in Brooklyn. For a few thousand dollars a month, one can join the LL Yacht Club at Chelsea Piers and East Hampton and enjoy access to their selection of luxury yachts to head to and from the Hamptons. Ball State University in Indiana......

When he announced he would retire after the U.S. Open, Andre Agassi made himself the story until he is eliminated. That almost came sooner than fans -- or CBS and USA -- wanted. Agassi survived three tiebreaks and beat Andrei Pavel in four sets to advance to a second-round match against Marcos Baghdatis on Thursday. The 36-year-old could have given up when, after splitting the first two sets on tiebreakers, he fell behind 4-0 in......

Spring is almost here! Pitchers and catchers started reporting to camps in Florida today. In Port St. Lucie the Mets are welcoming new faces Billy Wagner, Carlos Delgado and Paul Lo Duca, as well as several others. In Tampa, the Yankees have several new pitchers, Kyle Farnsworth, Octavio Dotel, Mike Myers and Ron Villone joining their staff. Spring training will be different this year as the World Baseball Classic will take away many of the......

Sunny skies and temperatures above fifty will do a quick number on the snow. The sidewalks will a gloppy, sloppy mess for a few days. If there's any snow mounds left by the weekend they are going to freeze hard. A relatively dry cold front looks like it will move through on Friday. The front will bring high winds and cold air. Saturday and Sunday will be chilly. The cold spell will only last a......

Two bench coaches, Don Zimmer and Don Baylor, made their returns to familiar surroundings yesterday. Zimmer is now with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and returned to Legends Field for the first time and Baylor returned to Port St. Lucie after cancer treatments over the winter. Zimmer's return almost made everything seem normal, that is until he started talking about his old boss. When asked if he would ever speak to George Steinbrenner, Zimmer......