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Baseball Today: Thursday, September 4
Projo Sox Blog — ... in time for the Rays' series at Fenway Park next week (St. Petersburg Times) . . . Andruw Jones says his season is over (Los Angeles Times) . . . The Angels' Jered Weaver will miss a start ...

Dodgers, Phillies Interested In Iguchi
MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com — ... Dylan Hernandez of the L.A. Times talked to Tadahito Iguchi's agent, who said the Dodgers and Phillies expressed interest in his client. ...

Andruw Jones Joins the Rest of America, Realizes He Can't Help Dodgers
FanHouse — ... was overweight, hitting .161, and had struck out in 74 of his 205 at-bats so far this season when he went down injured. According to Jones, those numbers are set in stone. ...

Wevie Stonder II Loses Battle With The Bench
Can't Stop The Bleeding — ... DiGiovanna’s collegue, Dodgers beat reporter Dylan Hernandez quotes the injured Andruw Jones as saying “this year is basically over”. ...

Andruw Jones Throws in the Towel, Cries into Pillow
Walkoff Walk — ... half of the season hitting .167 with just two ding-dongs and 7 RBI. The AJC throws more salt in the wound with another piece about how Andruw misses his family and plantains. To add injury to sadness, he's then sidelined for a coupla months with torn knee cartilage, only to be replaced in the outfield by Manny Ramirez when he comes back from a rehab stint in Vegas where he actually played first base for the first time in his life. So what's a guy to do? How about write off the entire year like the sad little emo boy that he is? Does that work? ...

Report: Phils have interest in 2B Tadahito Iguchi
Beerleaguer - Phillies Blog, Baseball News, Trade Rumors & Spirits — The former Phillie, who was acquired from the White Sox last season to fill in for an injured Chase Utley, was released by the Padres this week. [Link] Tadahito_iguchi Iguchi, 33, was having a substandard and injury-plagued season in San Diego after signing as a free agent there before the season. On the year, he’s hitting just .231/.292/.304 with two homers and 24 RBIs. He was released to clear roster room for second base prospect Matt Antonelli. The Tokyo native was hitting just .125 (8-for-64) since returning from the disabled list after missing 49 games with a separated ...

Andruw Jones declares self out for season five months late
Big League Stew — ... most of us did about him in May April spring training last winter when the Dodgers signed him for two years and $36 million. He is of absolutely no use. Jones, who is gimpy, chubby and batting .161/.261/.254 — slugging .254! — was activated from the 15-day disabled list on Monday, but he won't be patrolling center field any time soon for the team in hot lukewarm pursuit of the Arizona Diamondbacks. Jones tells the L.A. Times that he's out for the season. "This year," Jones says, ...

Baseball Today: Friday, September 5
Projo Sox Blog — ... (Dallas Morning News) . . . The Dodgers and Phillies are interested in the recently released Tadahito Iguchi (Los Angeles Times) . . . Chris Carpenter is pitching out of the bullpen for the Cardinals, ...