page_title: 2010 in baseball
section_title: February
hierarchical_section_title: 2010 in baseball / Events / February
caption_attribution_description: Tim Lincecum
context_page_description: The following are the baseball events of the year 2010 throughout the world.
context_section_description: February 4 – The Detroit Tigers re-sign ace RHP Justin Verlander to an $80 million, 5-year contract extension.
  February 7 – Dominican team Leones del Escogido wins the 2010 Caribbean Series. The Dominicans finish the tournament with a 5–1 record, while Puerto Rico's Mayagüez team places second (4–2), Mexico's Hermosillo squad third (2–4), and Venezuela's Caracas club in last place (1–5). Dominican outfielder Fernando Martínez earns the series MVP award and Mako Oliveras from Puerto Rico is named the best manager.
  February 8
  The Chicago White Sox unretire Hall of Fame shortstop Luis Aparicio's number 11, which is worn by Aparicio's friend and fellow Venezuelan Omar Vizquel.
  The Hall of Fame holds a second annual Hall of Fame Classic at Doubleday Field on Father's Day on June 20. The Hall began a Father's Day weekend last June, with five Hall of Famers and more than 20 other former major leaguers. The game replaced the annual exhibition game between major league teams, which was discontinued because it became too difficult to fit into the regular-season schedule. This year's seven-inning exhibition game features Hall of Famers Gary Carter, Bob Feller, Rollie Fingers, Goose Gossage, Harmon Killebrew, Phil Niekro and Mike Schmidt.
  February 11
  Tom Glavine retires after 22 major league seasons and accepts a front office job with the Atlanta Braves. The 300-game winner pitched at the major league level in 2008, and became eligible for the Hall of Fame in 2014, alongside longtime Braves teammate and fellow 300-game winner Greg Maddux.
  After sitting out the entire 2009 season, Frank Thomas announces his official retirement from baseball.
  February 12
  Tim Lincecum and the San Francisco Giants avoid arbitration, and agree on a two-year, $23 million deal that takes him through the 2011 season.
  Texas Rangers pitching prospects Omar Beltré, 28, and Alexi Ogando, 26, are granted visas, and allowed to attend Spring training, arriving in the U.S. on the 16th. The two players had previously confessed to involvement in a human trafficking ring in the Dominican Republic in 2004, and had been subsequently banned from entering the United States for five years, limiting them to winter ball, the Dominican Summer League and international tournaments.
  February 22
  Johnny Damon joins the Detroit Tigers, signing a one-year, $8 million contract.
  British rugby league player Terry Newton is the first professional athlete suspended for testing positive for human growth hormone. The blood test has been in existence since the 2004 Summer Olympics, but baseball officials say that its validity is not universally accepted by the scientific community, until now. Bud Selig introduces a plan to test minor leaguers for HGH shortly afterwards.
  February 23 – Aaron Boone announces his retirement.
  February 25 –  The Texas Rangers void the contract of off-season acquisition Khalil Greene, who does not report to Spring training due to social anxiety disorder. Greene went on the disabled list twice during the 2009 season while with the St. Louis Cardinals due to his disorder.
  February 26  – Female pitcher Eri Yoshida, formerly of the Kobe 9 Cruise in the Kansai Independent Baseball League in Japan, is drafted by the Chico Outlaws of the Golden Baseball League. She is introduced as a member of the team on May 7, less than two weeks after graduating from high school and only a few hours after she lands in San Francisco following a flight from Tokyo. She becomes the first woman to play at the professional level in an American baseball league alongside men since Ila Borders and the first to play in professional baseball in two countries.
caption: Lincecum and the Giants agree on a 2-year, $23 million deal
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