Selig says there’s no ban on Bonds playing

Bud Selig said he isn’t trying to keep Barry Bonds out of baseball, and the commissioner told the Houston Astros it’s up to them whether to have Roger Clemens in their spring training camp.

Selig made the comments in an informal meeting Saturday with reporters at Scottsdale Stadium in Scottsdale, Ariz.

He also confirmed that he met with Giants owner Peter Magowan and that Major League Baseball investigators spoke with the team’s general manager, Brian Sabean, about the findings in the Mitchell Report on drugs.

The commissioner declined to offer any other information on the talks but said he still hopes to decide on any punishment as a result of the report by the end of spring training.

“The conversations go on and I said I was going to handle all this on a case-by-case basis,” Selig said. “These are very sensitive matters.”

Bonds was indicted by a federal grand jury on four counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice. The indictment accuses him of lying to a grand jury investigating the Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative’s involvement in the distribution of steroids and other illegal performance-enhancing substances.

Delgado sidelined

Mets first baseman Carlos Delgado will be sidelined for a couple of days with a sore right hip.

The slugger left spring training camp and returned to New York from Port St. Lucie, Fla., for an MRI, which was negative. He has an impingement in his hip.

Wang may open for N.Y.

Yankees manager Joe Girardi thinks Chien-Ming Wang will get his chance to be the opening day starter this season.

Wang was slated to pitch the 2007 opener, but he was sidelined with a hamstring injury during spring training. He is lined up to get his start March 31 against Toronto.

“Real good chance he’ll be our opening day starter this year,” Girardi said.

Big names make debuts

Tom Glavine was nervous, Dan Haren was happy and Barry Zito was unable to finish the first inning. Three big-name pitchers made their spring training debuts, with different results.

Glavine threw 30 pitches in two innings during Atlanta’s 7-5 victory over Houston at Kissimmee, Fla. He struck out two. Haren looked comfortable in his Diamondbacks debut, throwing two innings in Arizona’s 12-8 loss to the Chicago White Sox at Tucson, Ariz. Zito managed only two outs against the A’s in Scottsdale, Ariz. He gave up eight runs and seven hits as Oakland beat San Francisco 23-5.

Gonzalez likely out

Cincinnati shortstop Alex Gonzalez, who has a compression fracture in his left knee, likely will miss the start of the season. Manager Dusty Baker said the injury will keep Gonzalez from any baseball activity for three weeks, at which time it will be reexamined.