Posted on 16 January 2012. Tags: about, Baseball, Bob Melvin, Excited, Hideki Matsui, Japan, League, major, Major League Baseball, Manager, Matsui, Melvin, Oakland, Seattle Mariners, Series
Oakland Athletics manager Bob Melvin is looking forward to opening Major League Baseball’s 2012 season in Japan even if his team doesn’t re-sign free agent Hideki Matsui.
The Athletics and Seattle Mariners open the regular season with a two-game series at Tokyo Dome on March 28-29. Many hoped the series would feature a showdown between Matsui and countryman Ichiro Suzuki, but Melvin said the A’s likely wont be re-signing the 37-year-old Matsui.
Melvin said ”Matsui was a great fit for us last year and we all loved having him on our team, but this year it doesn’t look like a fit for us based on the personnel we have going forward.”
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Posted on 09 March 2011. Tags: basketball, Basketball Games, Basketball Injury, Bob Melvin, Brewers, Contract Doesn, Cy Young, Cy Young Award, Discipline, Greinke, High Hopes, Injury, Journal Sentinel Reports, Kansas City Royals, Kibosh, Major League Baseball, Milwaukee Brewers, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Offseason, Over, Pickup Basketball, Plan, Playing Basketball, Three Games, Twitter, Yahoo Sports, Zack Greinke
Pitcher Zack Greinke had a pretty good run with the Kansas City Royals, winning the 2009 American League Cy Young Award and posting Major League Baseball’s lowest ERA that same year (2.16). But the 27-year-old didn’t want to be part of a rebuilding team and asked to be traded in the offseason.
The team that obtained him, the Milwaukee Brewers, had high hopes for Greinke this year. But he will get a delayed start because he cracked a rib playing basketball. Oops.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that the team isn’t planning to discipline Greinke at all since his contract doesn’t outlaw pickup basketball games but does put the kibosh on "competitive basketball."
Brewers GM Bob Melvin told the paper the team hopes Greinke will only be out for two or three games and admitted the situation might be different if the injury was season-ending or something like that.
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Posted on 09 March 2011. Tags: Basketball Games, Bob Melvin, Brewers, Contract Doesn, Cy Young, Cy Young Award, Greinke, High Hopes, Journal Sentinel Reports, Kansas City Royals, Kibosh, Major League Baseball, Milwaukee Brewers, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Offseason, Outlaw, penalizing, Pickup Basketball, Playing Basketball, Three Games, Twitter, Yahoo Sports, Zack Greinke
Pitcher Zack Greinke had a pretty good run with the Kansas City Royals, winning the 2009 American League Cy Young Award and posting Major League Baseball’s lowest ERA that same year (2.16). But the 27-year-old didn’t want to be part of a rebuilding team and asked to be traded this offseason.
The team that snagged him, the Milwaukee Brewers, had high hopes for Greinke this year. But that will have to wait a little bit since he cracked a rib playing basketball. Oops.
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports that the team isn’t planning to discipline Greinke at all since his contract doesn’t outlaw pickup basketball games but does put the kibosh on "competitive basketball."
Brewers GM Bob Melvin told the paper the team hopes Greinke will only be out for two or three games and "admitted the situation might be different if the injury was season-ending or something like that."
Let the rumors come to you. Follow Scoop du Jour on Twitter or Facebook.
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