Miami All-star Game several years away

MIAMI — Marlins Park won’t be hosting an AllStar Game until 2015, at the earliest, Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig said Wednesday.

Addressing the media before the first regular season game at the new stadium, Selig said that an abundance of new stadiums in the league — there have been nine built in the last decade — has led to a backlog of viable venues for the “midsummer classic.”

“I haven’t award the ’13 or ’14 All-star games yet,” Selig said. “So let me award that and then we’ll talk about it.”

It is expected that the Mets’ Citi Field will receive the next National League-hosted All-star Game in 2013. The Marlins will likely be going against National Park in Washington D.C. and Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia for the 2015 game.

The Marlins have never hosted an All-star Game. Sunlife Stadium (then Proplayer Stadium) was scheduled to host in 2000, but after the game was awarded to South Florida in 1995, the National League changed its mind and in 1998 awarded the game to Atlanta.

Selig did say that there have been discussions about having a World Baseball Classic final at the new Marlins Park.

Then-dolphin Stadium was one of two hosts of the 2009 World Baseball Classic knockout stage. The six games, held in March, had an average attendance of 19,066, marginally more than the Marlins’ average attendance that subse-

Bud Selig, quent season (18,770).

The 2013 World Baseball Classic will be held before next season. Jupiter’s Roger Dean Stadium, spring training home to both the Marlins and St. Louis Cardinals, will host some games in the tournament’s new qualifying round.

Ceda surgery

President of Baseball Operations Larry Beinfest said right-hander Jose Ceda’s Tommy John surgery has been postponed until next week. Dr. James Andrews was scheduled to perform the procedure Tuesday in Birmingham, Ala., but Ceda still has too much elbow inflammation.

The Marlins before the game placed Ceda on the 15-day disabled list. He ultimately will be moved to the 60-day disabled list.

Payroll highest

The Marlins purchased the contract of righthander Chad Gaudin, officially finalizing their 25-man roster. Their Opening Day payroll is $93.813 million.

“I expect this team to player very exciting baseball, but more importantly, the team itself believes that and they expect to be there at the end,” owner Jeffrey Loria said.

The Marlins’ opening day payroll in 2011 was the seventh lowest in baseball, at $56.9 million, meaning the Marlins increased payroll nearly 40 percent in one season.

In the World Series Championship years of 1997 and 2003, the Marlins spent under $50 million to field an opening day roster. In 2003, the Marlins spent $49 million, in 1997, $47.75 million.

The Marlins have began the year with the smallest payroll in baseball four times since first winning the World Series: 1999, 2006, 2008 and 2009.

The San Diego Padres, barring any last-minute changes, are expected to open the 2012 season with the smallest payroll in the league. The Padres’ 25-man roster is paid a collective $53.9 million.

Hitless

Whenjose Reyes registered the first Marlins hit at the new ballpark with no outs in the top of the seventh inning, he also broke up Kyle Lohse’s nohitter.

Cleveland Indians great Bob Feller remains the only pitcher to ever throw a no-hitter on Opening Day. He blanked the Chicago White Sox on April16, 1940.