Clemens puts odds of return at 20 percent

Roger Clemens has given himself just a 20 percent chance of returning to the mound next season.

"[My son] Koby asked me when we were working out, he was doing more of a workout than I was," Clemens told Houston television station KRIV-TV in an interview quoted on MLB.com yesterday.

"I still told him 80-20 that I wasn't going to play.

"We get little notes at my foundation about people saying they wish I would make up my mind and decide because I am leaving people hanging. I'm not leaving anybody hanging.

"I don't want to play," added Clemens, a seven-time Cy Young Award winner.

If Clemens, 44, does return for a 24th season, it will probably be back with the Astros, Yankees, or Red Sox.

"The teams that are involved, I think they've got really good clubs that are together, and if somebody stubs their toe and my phone rings in May, I might have to think about it," Clemens said.

Before he got a chance to finish another game, Keith Foulke closed his career. Foulke, whose toss to first base for the final out ended an 86-year World Series title drought for the Red Sox, retired just as he was about to begin a two-man competition with Joe Borowski to be Cleveland's closer. "Over the last few weeks, while preparing for the 2007 season, my body has not responded as it has in years past," Foulke said in a statement. "I feel strongly I will not be able to perform at the level where I need to be to help the Indians this season." . . . Ken Griffey's throwing hand feels fine and he expects to be ready to go in spring training. The Cincinnati Reds' star center fielder reported early to camp, which opens today. He broke his left hand in an accident at home in December . . . Tom Glavine is inching closer to 300 wins -- and retirement. Needing 10 victories to reach the milestone, the New York Mets' ace sounds as though he plans to call it quits after this season. "I don't want to sit here and say definitively," said Glavine, a Billerica native. "If I don't win 300 games for some reason, I will play -- unless my arm blows out and that's the end of it." . . . Baltimore Orioles pitcher Jose Acevedo broke four ribs and his collarbone in a motorcycle accident in the Dominican Republic and is expected to miss the entire season.