Floyd Is Traded to Boston by Montreal

Cliff Floyd was traded for the second time in three weeks, with the Montreal Expos sending the power-hitting outfielder to the Boston Red Sox on Tuesday night for minor league pitchers Seung Jun Song and Sun Woo Kim.

Floyd, an All-Star last season, is eligible to become a free agent at the end of the season. He is being paid $6.5 million this season.

Floyd homered Tuesday night for the Expos, who acquired him from Florida after the All-Star break.

As part of the deal, Montreal also gets a player to be named.

Floyd spent his first four seasons at Montreal.

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Left-hander Ricardo Rincon was acquired by the Oakland Athletics from the Cleveland Indians before the teams played Tuesday night at Oakland.

The Indians received minor league infielder Marshall McDougall in the deal.

The A’s designated reliever Mike Magnante for assignment. He was 0-2 with a 5.97 earned-run average in 32 games.

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Negotiators for the baseball owners and players spent four hours discussing revenue sharing and other bargaining issues without reaching a resolution on any.

On the key issue of revenue sharing, union lawyer Gene Orza said that “in some respects, the conversation was productive. We got a little closer, but there are still significant hurdles we have to find a way to get through.”

It is believed that the union’s executive board will hold a conference call next week to discuss a strike date if there is no bargaining agreement.

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New York Yankee right-hander Roger Clemens will test his injured groin in another rehabilitation start, either Thursday at double-A Norwich or Friday at Class-A Tampa.

Yankee closer Mariano Rivera threw 30 times from 50 feet off flat ground at Tampa, Fla., as he continues his recovery from a mild right shoulder strain.

Rivera is eligible to come off the 15-day disabled list in a week

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Baltimore Oriole right-hander Pat Hentgen, sidelined since undergoing elbow replacement surgery last August, threw six innings in a simulated game at the team’s minor league complex at Sarasota, Fla.

Oriole Manager Mike Hargrove said Hentgen could make a minor league rehab start in early August, and might join the team afterward.

Baltimore outfielder Jeff Conine, out since June 15 because of a right hamstring strain, is taking batting practice and has started running on a treadmill. The next step will be Conine doing running drills in the field.

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Ted Williams’ oldest daughter, who is fighting her half-siblings over their father’s body, said she will never waver from her belief that the baseball star wanted to be cremated and not frozen.

“I’m not going to change my mind,” Bobby-Jo Williams Ferrell told Associated Press. “There’s no way to reach a compromise. I want his will to be followed.”

Ferrell and her half-siblings, John Henry Williams and Claudia Williams, are battling in court over the final disposition of their father, who was frozen at a Scottsdale, Ariz., cryogenics lab shortly after his death July 5.

Ted Williams’ 1996 will says his body should be cremated and the ashes scattered off the Florida coast, but Ferrell’s half-siblings say he signed a pact with them in November 2000, agreeing to be cryogenically preserved so they could “be together” after they died.