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baseballmusings.com - 7 hours ago
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Danys Baez pitched in relief for the Baltimore
Orioles in 2009 and is currently a free agent.
He returned to the majors in 2009 after missing all of 2008 due to elbow surgery at the end of spring training. His 2009 ERA was pretty much in line with his career average (4.04 career, 4.02 in 2009) ...
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Players A to Z, Danys Baez
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baseballmusings.com - 13 hours ago
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Vince Naimoli wrote a book about his life
and his time owning the Devil Rays . He
tries to throw a better light on himself. Naimoli also has some harsh words for his former investment partners, saying he had to spend $30 million of his own money to keep the team from bankruptcy. That was ...
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Giving the Devil his Due
baseballmusings.com - 13 hours ago
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Peter Abraham is holding a contest for fun
where you create a team from the free agent
class . The only thing I’d like to see Peter add is how much you would pay each player (money is no object in the contest, however). Entries are due Sunday night. Looking at Peter’s team, I ...
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Free Agent Team
baseballmusings.com - 24 hours ago
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Stephen Strasburg hurt his knee . It’s either
not serious or someone heard an “ugly pop.” He’s
going to see Lewis Yocum, however, so how bad can it be?
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Knee to Know
baseballmusings.com - 30 hours ago
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Burke Badenhop pitches in relief for the Florida
Marlins, and owns one of my favorite names in
the sport for two reasons: You can’t spell Badenhop without, “Bad hop.” It reminds me of Boris Badenov . In 2009, Burke improved on his rookie season, pitching 25 more ...
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Players A to Z, Burke Badenhop
baseballmusings.com - 30 hours ago
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It turns out that the two internet voters,
Keith Law and Will Carroll, left Chris Carpenter off
their ballots. Some people are not happy about that, according to ShysterBall . I actually think the problem is that with only three slots, it’s tough to give recognition to a pitcher who ...
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Ballot Bawling
baseballmusings.com - 30 hours ago
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The Cubs traded Aaron Heilman to the Arizona
Diamondbacks rather than release the player. In return, the
Cubs received left-handed reliever Scott Maine, who went 4-5 with seven saves and a 2.90 ERA at Double-A Mobile and Triple-A Reno, and first baseman Ryne White, who hit .266 with six ...
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Heilman to the Diamonbacks
baseballmusings.com - 30 hours ago
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At the end of his Cy Young interview,
Tim Lincecum read a statement about his marijuana arrest
: In part: “I made a mistake and I regret my actions. I want to apologize to the Giants organization and the fans. I know as a professional athlete I have a responsibility … both on ...
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Lincecum’s Statement
baseballmusings.com - 33 hours ago
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Tim Lincecum wins the NL Cy Young Award
for the second year in a row. Tim Lincecum
of the San Francisco Giants was elected the National League Cy Young Award winner for the second consecutive year in balloting by the BBWAA. Lincecum had the lowest victory total over a full season of any ...
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Lincecum Repeats
baseballmusings.com - 35 hours ago
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Dave Cameron is unimpressed with the contract John
Grabow signed with the Cubs : Grabow is a
generic left-handed middle reliever, the kind of guy you’re fine having for the league minimum but that you don’t really want to pay any real money to. He’s eminently replaceable, but the Cubs have ...
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Grabow’s Contract
The BBWAA announces their NL Cy Young Award choice at 2 PM EST this afternoon. My picks were Tim Lincecum, Chris Carpenter, Ubaldo Jimenez, Javier Vazquez and Adam Wainwright, in that order. The IBWAA award went to Chris Carpenter. Carpenter finished with the best ERA in the National League , ...
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Cy Young
Chris Carpenter
Adam Wainwright
Tim Lincecum
Ubaldo Jimenez
baseballmusings.com - 36 hours ago
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Joe Posnanski awards the McCloskey’s for the worst
manager in each league . Trey Hillman gets it
in the AL, with Joe debating the merits of Dave Trembley. I can see the reasons behind both, but what about Eric Wedge? Maybe he should get a lifetime achievement award for showing so much ...
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The Worst Managers
baseballmusings.com - 39 hours ago
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Ken Rosenthal fires the first salvo in 2011
work stoppage reporting, using an argument between Scott Boras
and Bob Manfred as an ominous sign that relations between owners and players are headed to an impasse. At issue is how much money teams receive from the central fund and how much of that ...
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Strike Talk
baseballmusings.com - 39 hours ago
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Wednesday was a good day for Jim Tracy
as he won the NL Manager of the Year
and received a three-year contract from the Rockies . Is this a good contract? Tracy basically won with the Dodgers, and lost with the Pirates. If you give him a good team, he can win, give him a poor team, and ...
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Manager of the Next Three Years
baseballmusings.com - 2 days ago
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Negro League player Bucky Williams died at 102
: Williams was born on Dec. 15, 1906, in
Baltimore, and his family moved to Pittsburgh when he was a baby. He began playing for the Pittsburgh Crawfords in 1928, played briefly with their rival Homestead Grays in 1936, then returned to the ...
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Bucky Williams Passes
Bud Selig says he’ll look at tightening up the playoff schedule , something Mike Scioscia complained about this year. My solution is here .
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Bud Selig
Mike Scioscia
Willy Aybar is a utility infielder for the Tampa Bay Rays. He plays second, third and first, filling in for both Akinori Iwamura and Carlos Pena when they suffered injuries. Aybar’s career got off to a good start, posting a .387 OBP over his first two seasons . Unfortunately, drug ...
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Willy Aybar
Tampa Bay Rays
Akinori Iwamura
Carlos Pena
The Washington Nationals hired Davey Johnson as an advisor to Mike Rizzo . Johnson is the one person I’d love to still see managing. BBTF’s take :
~squeeble-squeeble~~Riggleroom just got a little tighter~~squeeble-squeeble~
Johnson made it pretty clear in the past that he ...
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Washington Nationals
World Baseball Classic
baseballmusings.com - 2 days ago
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The Arizona Fall League announced the finalists for
the Dernell Stenson Sportsmanship Award .
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Stenson Award Nominees
baseballmusings.com - 2 days ago
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Erick Aybar plays shortstop for the Los Angeles
Angels of Anaheim. At age 25, 2009 represented his
first season as a full time player, and Erick responded marvelously. He hit over .300 with a .353 OBP and a .423 slugging percentage. Aybar brought his OBP up every year since since cup of coffee ...
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Players A to Z, Erick Aybar
