Third baseman Alex Gordon, who spent nearly half of last season on the disabled list, will apparently start 2010 on the DL as well.

Gordon, who missed 79 games last season after having hip surgery to repair a labral tear on April 17, fractured his right thumb on a head-first slide into second on an unsuccessful attempted steal March 6.

"It was a bang-bang play," Gordon said. "I couldn't tell you if it was his foot (Rangers second baseman Joaquin Arias) or the bag, but I hit it. I kind of knew something was up, but I didn't want to tell myself something was wrong. I tried to play through it.

"It was black and blue and something was popping out, so the doctors looked at it and said we should get an X-ray."

Gordon, who bats left and throws right, played three...

Scouts behind home plate trained their radar guns on Cuban defector Aroldis Chapman as the left-hander prepared to throw. When the ball smacked the catcher's mitt, they'd glance back at the gun and find an eye-popping number. The left-hander hit 100 mph at least three times during his spring training debut Monday, throwing two scoreless innings during the Cincinnati Reds' 14-5 victory...