
Alex Rodriguez plans to meet with New York Yankees' officials before reporting to spring training. Having served a one-season suspension for violations of baseball's drug agreement and labor contract, Rodriguez is due to start workouts at the team's spring training complex on Feb. 26. Yankees general manager Brian Cashman, speaking to reporters before the Connecticut Sports Foundation dinner Friday in Uncasville, said the planned meeting was discussed a day earlier when he and assistant general manager Jean Afterman spoke with Jim Sharp, a lawyer for Rodriguez. ''Alex considers everything with the Yankees to be family business, and family business stays within the family,'' spokesman Ron Berkowitz said in an email.
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