BASEBALL DAILY REPORT : Red Sox Put Canseco on Disabled List

The Boston Red Sox put Jose Canseco on the 15-day disabled list. Canseco, batting .239 with three homers and nine RBIs, has a strained right hip flexor. . . . Albert Belle met for about 90 minutes with baseball investigators who are looking into an April 6 incident in which the Cleveland Indian outfielder threw a ball that hit a photographer. . . . The Houston Astros signed free-agent right-handed pitcher Xavier Hernandez, 30, who pitched for Houston from 1990-93.