BASEBALL DAILY REPORT : AROUND THE MAJORS : Mets Send Young to Minor Leagues
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Anthony Young, who lost a major league record 27th consecutive decision this season, was optioned to the New York Mets’ triple-A team in Norfolk, Va. The Mets want Young, 27, to start for Norfolk, giving him a chance to work on his pitches. Young is 1-15 overall with a 4.23 earned-run average in eight starts and 29 relief appearances.
Baseball owners gave players a written pledge that they won’t lock them out next year or change salary arbitration this winter, the two promises the union said were necessary to stop consideration of a strike next month. . . . Seattle third baseman Edgar Martinez is on the 15-day disabled list because of an ailing left hamstring and might sit out the rest of the season.
Outfielder Ivan Calderon, a nine-year veteran, was released by the Boston Red Sox. . . . ABC won a coin toss with NBC to televise the 1994 World Series, the first under the new joint venture between the two networks and Major League Baseball.
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