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Post by Flying Horse on Nov 13, 2011 15:20:22 GMT -5
Jorge Posada confirms he will not be back with the Yankees.
According to the AP, free agent Jorge Posada before his annual dinner for his charitable foundation that he will not return to the Yankees in 2012. He hasn't completely ruled out retirement, but he has drawn interest from "five to six" MLB teams.
“I feel I’m undecided,” said Posada. “I don’t know if I want to play. I don’t know if I want to stay home. I’m having fun with the kids and with the family, but I don’t know what I want to do. I don’t want to make the mistake of telling you that I’m not going to play or telling you that I’m going to play when I don’t know what I want to do. … I will always be a Yankee.”
Posada batted just .235/.315/.398 in 387 plate appearances this season. He is no longer a capable catcher and probably shouldn’t be signed as anything more than a part-time designated hitter. But the 40-year-old could probably find an incentives-based major league contract if he truly wants to continue his career. The Yanks will turn DH duties over to a combination of Jesus Montero, Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter.
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Post by Flying Horse on Nov 13, 2011 15:20:46 GMT -5
Progress being made in labor negotiations; deal could be done this weekl
Jayson Stark and others are hearing that some serious progress has been made in labor negotiations over the new collective bargaining agreement. There’s a decent chance that a deal could be done this week, in fact, though Stark has other sources telling him that’s a 50/50 proposition.
The holdup is the owners’ insistence on hard slotting for draft picks. The progress seems to be coming in the from of some mechanism other than a hard draftee bonus cap that nonetheless depresses signing bonuses. This is somewhat strange since draftee bonuses get tons of headlines but they represent such a small fraction of overall payroll. Like a really, really small amount. The top pick gets what a slightly above average veteran second baseman gets over a couple of years. Seems like a strange place to make a stand. But it doesn’t sound like the hardest stand, and it seems like labor peace is close at hand.
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Post by PK Bucko on Dec 8, 2011 10:21:55 GMT -5
PUJOLS IS OUTTA HERE! THE ANGELS JUST SIGNED HIM TO TEN YEARS AND 250 MILLION!
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Post by Coldwarrior on Apr 21, 2012 21:28:46 GMT -5
Arouse the Slumbering Beezeball fans. It's a new season.
Chicago White Sox pitcher Humber has a perfect game. Not surprising to me. The Sox handed the Tigers their hat recently. The Tigers are an improved team this year but you wouldn't know it from the way they have been bashed by the White Sox and now the Rangers.
This will be an interesting year in baseball.
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Post by Flying Horse on Apr 22, 2012 13:25:32 GMT -5
First the Yankees beat the Red Sox on the 100th anniversary bash at Fenway and then came from 9 runs behind in the 7th inning of yesterday's game, scoring 7 runs in the 7th and 7 runs in the 8th inning to beat them 15-9. The Red Sox fans booed Bobby Valentine. The ones they should be boing are the pithers, starters and bullpen. They have been stinko!!
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Post by Coldwarrior on Apr 22, 2012 18:17:03 GMT -5
Verlander stopped the Texas Rangers as expected in the 3rd game of the series. Today, the Tigers with the score tied in the 11th inning, let Texas load the bases, with no outs.
Their batter bunted. The pitcher fielded the bunt but had no play anywhere. The runner from 3rd scored. The replay showed the bunted ball bounced off the batters knee which should have been a foul ball. The umps didn't see it so the run counted. Then Texas hit into a double play followed by a strike out.
Detroit teams always seem to be the victims of bad calls regardless of the sport. It seems like the whole world hates us.
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Post by Forever Sunshine on May 10, 2012 15:04:53 GMT -5
MLB poised to pick off 1st-and-3rd move Yankees reliever Rafael Soriano stepped toward third base and bluffed a pickoff throw, then twirled and made a soft toss to first. No dice, the Tampa Bay runners didn't fall for that ol' trick — they'd seen it too often. Starting next year, no one might ever see that exact play again. Major League Baseball is poised to pick off the much-maligned move, the fake-to-third, throw-to-first ploy that often succeeds only in getting the whole ballpark to shout ''Balk!'' ''I think they should get rid of it,'' Yankees reliever Boone Logan said. ''Us lefties can't do that. If we do, they call a balk.'' ''Besides, how often does it work? Maybe once in never,'' he said. msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/baseball-poised-to-pick-off-first-and-third-trick-move-051012/ |
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Post by steff on May 10, 2012 15:13:56 GMT -5
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Post by Forever Sunshine on May 10, 2012 15:51:41 GMT -5
Wow! How cool is that! LOL
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