starter was limping pretty heavily on Sunday.Ryker Fy

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred does not think Donald Trumps election as president will slow the sports plans to stage more events in Latin America.Expanding international play has been one of Manfreds goals since succeeding Bud Selig as commissioner in January 2015. San Diego and Houston played a two-game spring training series this year in Mexico City, where the sport opened an office last March and which Manfred has mentioned as a possible expansion site.Tampa Bay met Cubas national team in Havana on March 22, the first visit to the island by a big league baseball club since 1999. MLB hopes to establish a process that would allow Cuban residents to sign big league contracts.Havent heard anything with respect to the Cuba issue that would suggest that theres going to be any change, and I think were all familiar with things he said about Mexico, Manfred said Wednesday at the annual general managers meeting. I think we need to wait and see what actually happens.Team executives and agents discussing deals watched election coverage in shock Tuesday night in the Mbar off the central courtyard at the Omni Scottsdale Resort & Spa at Montelucia, some with looks of anguish on their faces.Manfred opened his news conference by stating: Its been an interesting couple of weeks. Cubs won the World Series for the first time in 108 years. Donald Trump got elected president. Pretty interesting all the way around. So here we are. He then laughed.On other topics:COLLECTIVE BARGAININGDan Halem, baseballs chief legal officer, updated GMs on talks for a labor contract to replace the five-year deal that expires Dec. 1. Manfred had hoped for an agreement before the end of the World Series last week. Teams with high payrolls would like to know the level of the luxury-tax threshold, which was $189 million this year.Theres a couple of natural deadlines, Manfred said. One is the beginning of free agency and the other ones obviously the expiration date. Well, we missed deadline one, so were looking at deadline two now.JEURYS FAMILIAManfred said he anticipated it would take time for MLB to investigate New York Mets closer Jeurys Familia under its domestic violence policy. A complaint in municipal court in Fort Lee, New Jersey, dated Oct. 31 alleged the All-Star pitcher caused bodily injury to another. A hearing is scheduled for Nov. 14.I think that it is usually difficult for us to complete our investigation before the criminal process has run its course, Manfred said. We have the luxury of not being on the field right now, and were going to take advantage of that.2020 TOKYO OLYMPICSMLB has not yet spoken with the World Baseball Softball Confederation about the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Japanese baseball and Olympic officials would like major leaguers to participate, but MLB and its players are reluctant because the Olympics will be held from July 24 to Aug. 9.Weve had an exchange of letters, Weve asked them to come in and explain exactly what the program is going to look like in order to put us in a position to make a firm evaluation, Manfred said.ASTROS/CARDINALS INVESTIGATIONFormer Cardinals scouting director Christopher Correa was sentenced in July to 46 months in prison and ordered to pay $279,038 in restitution after pleading guilty to five counts of unauthorized access of a protected computer from 2013 to at least 2014. When he pleaded guilty in January, Correa maintained he found proprietary Cardinals information in the Astros database. Cardinals Chairman Bill DeWitt Jr. had blamed the hack on roguish behavior by a handful of individuals.If it were a 100-yard game, were in the final 10 yards of the St. Louis situation, Manfred said. The time has come to put this one behind us. I am anxious to do that.MEDICAL RECORDSFollowing the suspension of San Diego general manager A.J. Preller for 30 days without pay in September following an MLB investigation that concluded the Padres had withheld medical information from trade partners, requirements for sharing medical records will be enhanced.Preller was sanctioned after San Diego did not disclose records in a July deal that sent All-Star left-hander Drew Pomeranz to Boston. MLB and the union instituted an electronic medical records system in 2010.It was largely kind of left to a committee of athletic trainers to determine the types of records each club should maintain, how theyre maintained. Were going to formalize it a little more and are contemplating issuing firm guidance in terms of what has to be in, what has to be out, Halem said. I think this was coming irrespective of the issues we had this season. 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Ellis hit two-run homers and the NL West champion Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the San Diego Padres 4-0 Saturday night. LINCOLN, Neb. -- A big win over Minnesota seemed to lift the cloud that had settled over No. 19 Nebraska.Back-to-back losses to Wisconsin and Ohio State, the latter by 59 points, left coach Mike Riley and his players to spend the previous two Mondays rehashing all that went wrong. This week, they allowed themselves to imagine the possibilities for the rest of 2016.Though the Cornhuskers (8-2, 5-2 Big Ten) need help to reach the Big Ten championship game, they would double their 2015 regular-season win total if they beat Maryland on Saturday and Iowa on the Friday after Thanksgiving.Not many teams can finish with 10 wins in the regular season, defensive end Ross Dzuris said. It would be big for the program.In 15 years as a college coach, Riley has never won more than nine games in a regular season. He said hes proud of what his second Nebraska team has accomplished so far and called the improvement absolutely necessary.Last year, the Huskers went 5-7 in the regular season, losing four games decided by three points or less and another on a Hail Mary pass. This year theyre 3-0 in games decided by seven points or less and have won four of the six games in which they trailed at halftime. That includes the 24-17 victory over Minnesota on Saturday.Wed all like the football better, more consistent, and I know all that, Riley said. But I do like the mindset of this group. Its been fun to work with them, fun to see them turn the thing around and play with so much confidence late in ball games and always fight back -- with the onee outlier being Ohio State when it got way out of proportion.dddddddddddd I like this team a lot.For the second straight week, quarterback Tommy Armstrong Jr. will miss practice time because of injury. He tweaked his left hamstring while tumbling into the end zone for the go-ahead touchdown against Minnesota, and Riley said the four-year starter was limping pretty heavily on Sunday.Ryker Fyfe will take the first-team snaps when the team returns to practice Tuesday, with Zack Darlington his backup. Armstrong, who has started 43 of his 44 games at Nebraska, is listed as day-to-day.Armstrong turned in an inspiring performance against the Gophers after being knocked unconscious against Ohio State. He injured his left ankle on a quarterback sneak in the third quarter and had to leave the game. He returned to lead the 91-yard winning drive and was carried to the sideline by two offensive linemen after he tweaked his hamstring on his 13-yard touchdown. He was named Big Ten offensive player of the week Monday.He has been quarterback forever now it seems like, receiver Jordan Westerkamp said. He is just a great guy to have out there. He brings so much to the table, not just his quarterback play but his mentality -- his toughness being able to come back after injury after injury. It is incredible. Guys see that and that energizes us, definitely.---More AP college football: http://collegefootball.ap.org ' ' '