Archive | January, 2011
Posted on 31 January 2011. Tags: Atlanta Journal Constitution, Billionaire, Civil Rights Leader, Donn Clendenon, Ed Kranepool, First Baseman, Interested Parties, Jr.'s, Major League Baseball, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King Iii, Mets, Mike Repole, Minority Partners, Mlk Jr, New York Mets, Ownership Group, piece, Professional Sports, Quot, seeks, Twitter, Vodka, Yahoo Sports
The New York Mets announced on Friday that the team is seeking investors to come in as minority partners. A few groups of interested parties have already surfaced and one is headed by Martin Luther King III, son of the late civil-rights leader, according to MLB.com. There are currently no African-American team owners in Major [...]
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Posted on 31 January 2011. Tags: 5 Million, Angel, Carlos Beltran, contract, Contract News, Details, Dickey's, Mets, Mlb, New Contract, New Deal, News, Pagan, Released, Signs
The Mets have finalized a deal with Angel Pagan, which will pay him .5 million for this upcoming season. As I had mentioned, I was hoping the team would consider signing Pagan for at lease two years, as he has great speed and can replace Carlos Beltran is center field when he departs after this [...]
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Posted on 31 January 2011. Tags: City Of Brotherly Love, Cleveland Indians, Grilli, Italian Stallion, Jason Grilli, joining, Majors, Minor League Deal, Mlb, Philadelphia Phillies, Phillies, San Francisco Giants, Scoop, Sounds, Texas Rangers, Twitter, Workouts, Yahoo, Yahoo Sports
Reliever Jason Grilli spent last season out of the big leagues, but it appears that he could be returning this season to relieve what may be the best rotation in the majors. The 6-5 34-year-old righty tweeted yesterday, "This Italian Stallion is FIRED UP about the City of Brotherly Love! Balboa workouts paid off and [...]
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Posted on 31 January 2011. Tags: Baltimore, Baltimore Baseball, Baltimore Orioles, Baltimore Orioles Baseball, Baseball Team, Best Player, Birds, David Segui, Favorite Team, Hell, Laughs, Lot, Major League Baseball, Mlb, Morons, Nl West, Orioles, Preview, San Francisco Giants, team, Team Breakdown, Uninspiring, World Champion, Yardbarker
Over the course of the next month, we'll be taking you around Major League Baseball giving you a team breakdown a day as we look ahead to the upcoming season. The series will start in the AL East and culminate with the world champion San Francisco Giants in the vaunted NL West. Be sure to [...]
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Posted on 31 January 2011. Tags: Atlanta Journal Constitution, Billionaire, Civil Rights Leader, Donn Clendenon, Ed Kranepool, First Baseman, Interested Parties, Jr.'s, Major League Baseball, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King Iii, Mets, Mike Repole, Minority Partners, Mlk Jr, New York Mets, Ownership Group, piece, Professional Sports, Quot, Twitter, Vodka, wants, Yahoo Sports
The New York Mets announced on Friday that the team is seeking investors to come in as minority partners. A few groups of interested parties have already surfaced and one of them is headed by Martin Luther King III, son of the late civil-rights leader, according to MLB.com. There are currently no African-American team owners [...]
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Posted on 31 January 2011. Tags: Bard, Boston Red Sox, Bullpen, Charlotte Christian School, Daniel, Daniel Bard, Dominance, Domination, Fastball, High, Jogging, Mlb, North Carolina, School, Setup Man, Springboard, success, Tony Lee, Uses
Editor’s note: Each day this week, Tony Lee will cover Daniel Bard’s rise from high school dominance to setup man for the Boston Red Sox. Long before Daniel Bard was jogging out of the bullpen and causing opposing hitters to stiffen up at the sight of his electric fastball, he was jogging out of the [...]
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Posted on 31 January 2011. Tags: Baltimore Orioles, Duchscherer, Duke, Espn, Espn Reports, Free Agent Pitcher, Hip Surgery, Justin Duchscherer, Mlb, Oakland Athletics, Scoop, Seattle Mariners, signing, Twitter, Washington Nationals, Yahoo, Yahoo Sports
Free agent pitcher Justin Duchscherer had three possible new employers lined up that all wanted to give him one-year deals: the Seattle Mariners, Washington Nationals, and Baltimore Orioles. ESPN reports that the O’s got the deal done late last night and Duchscherer will be joining Baltimore if he can pass a physical. The 33-year-old has [...]
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Posted on 31 January 2011. Tags: 2011, Baseball, Brandon Morrow, Continuation, Fantasy, Fantasy Baseball Rankings, Filthy Sanchez, Humor, Javier Vazquez, Latos, Mcdonald, Mlb, Starters, Tiers, Top 80, Trevor Cahill
This is almost the end of the 2011 fantasy baseball rankings. With these top 80 starters for 2011 fantasy baseball, there's a few names that I'm really gunning for on my teams… My deeper teams. On last year's top 80, there was one guy who truly emerged (Mat Latos) and a few who kinda did (Filthy Sanchez, [...]
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