Sunday notebooks

Here's the weekly Sunday baseball reading.

Tampa Tribune: The Rays will focus on fundamentals in spring training, while a columnist says the team is "dangerously close to being competitive."

St. Petersburg Times: The Rays will "most likely" have a payroll past the $40 million mark this year. Last year, the team spent $24 million on payroll.

Houston Chronicle: Goshen High's Wesley Wright is headed to the Astros' annual mini-camp late this month, but will Roger Clemens be among the instructors?

Rocky Mountain News: No, no, no, a thousand times no -- Jim Rice does not belong in the Hall of Fame. Rice will be on the ballot next year for the final time.

Boston Globe: Before Bo, Deion and MJ, there was Gene Conley , the only athlete to win world titles in basketball and baseball. And the weekly baseball notebook is a regular read.

New York Daily News: Now that Clemens is suing former trainer Brian McNamee, "stuff is pouring out of" McNamee about Clemens.