Expos trade Floyd to Red Sox for prospects

Anaheim, Calif. Cliff Floyd was traded for the second time in three weeks, with the Montreal Expos sending the power-hitter to Boston 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 after the All-Star break from Florida.

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

Floyd spent his first four seasons in Montreal. After hitting .287 with 18 homers and 57 RBIs with Florida, he struggled in his second stint with the Expos.

Song, a 22-year-old South Korean, was obtained by the Red Sox as a free agent in 1999. The right-hander led Boston’s farm system with a 1.90 ERA and 135 strikeouts last season, when he split time between Sarasota of the Florida State League and Augusta of the South Atlantic League.

Prior hit with batted ball, leaves game

Chicago Cubs pitcher Mark Prior was hit on the right leg by a batted ball and left Tuesday night’s game against the San Diego Padres in the seventh inning.

Prior walked off the field under his own power and sat in the dugout. Prior allowed five runs on eight hits over six-plus innings. He struck out 10 on 115 pitches.

Williams’ oldest daughter doubts compromise

Inverness, Fla. Ted Williams’ oldest daughter, who is fighting her half- siblings over their father’s body, said Tuesday 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 the 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 on July 5.

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

Players, owners divided on several key issues

New York Another day at the bargaining table produced only slight progress for baseball players and owners, who still appear headed toward the sport’s ninth work stoppage since 1972.

Negotiators for the sides met twice Tuesday, for a total of about 31/2 hours. The primary topic of the first session was revenue sharing, with owners wanting a large increase in the amount of locally generated money that is shared by all teams. Management also wants a new formula that would be less favorable to the clubs with the highest and lowest revenue.

“In some respects, the conversation was productive,” said Gene Orza, the union’s No. 2 official. “We got a little closer, but there are still significant hurdles we have to find a way to get through.”

Meantime, union head Donald Fehr met in New York with players from the Houston Astros.