sportsbybrooks.com - 11/26/2008
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The wait is finally over. Our favorite Indian pitching hopefuls, Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel — who we have followed throughout their journey to America — have been signed to a minor league contract by the Pittsburgh Pirates. Makes sense. Nothing else works for the Bucs, so why not trot out a ...
walkoffwalk.com - 11/24/2008
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walkoffwalk.com —
My favorite new Japanese baseball blog NPB Tracker
has the biggest and best news of the week...
: the Pittsburgh Pirates have signed our favorite Indian contest winners Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel to minor league contracts! Hopefully, this means ...
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Baseball Yatra is Great Success: Pirates Sign Rinku and ...
pittsburgh.pirates.mlb.com - 11/24/2008
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PITTSBURGH -- The Pirates, who have emphasized a
need to find talent via every available outlet, have...
gone where no team has gone before. On Monday, the Pirates signed two young Indian pitchers, 20-year-old right-hander Dinesh Patel and 19-year-old ...
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Bucs sign pair of Indian hurlers | pirates.com: News
walkoffwalk.com - 11/25/2008
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That's a screenshot of MLB.com as of 7:30PM
EST, displaying our Indian heroes in all their glory....
They're the top story because Pittsburgh Pirates general manager Neal Huntington has made it official : Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel are now ...
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Neal Huntington Makes It Official: Rinku and Dinesh Are ...
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Rinku And Dinesh Are Officially Baseball Players
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Remember Rinku and Dinesh ? Those Indian reality TV show contestants who can throw kind of hard, but not really, but that’s still good enough to get you a contract with the Pirates? They finally got some game action yesterday. Rinku Singh Rinku Singh got knocked around a little in his inning of work; Dinesh Patel was better. And neither embarrassed themselves or the Pirates organization, which is a moral victory for everyone. And, as always, the two recapped their afternoon in hilarious broken English on their blog. Rinku came on first for the GCL Pirates, in the seventh inning of a 1-run ballgame . I could tell you he gave up a run on two hits with ...
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The Pittsburgh Pirates signed two athletes from India. - MLB - SI.com
sportsillustrated.cnn.com 11/25/2008 — PITTSBURGH (AP) -- The Pittsburgh Pirates hope Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel really do have million-dollar arms. The two 20-year-old pitchers, neither of whom had picked up a baseball until earlier this year, signed free-agent contracts Monday with the ...
More on Patel and Singh
whygavs.com 11/26/2008 — First things first, Patel and Singh officially signed . I thought it was important to note that news from a site that didn't need a babel fish to figure out what was going on. Secondly, I mentioned their blog second-hand in my earlier post and I know ...
A Passage To India?
bugsandcranks.com 11/25/2008 — Talk about change.When Dave Littlefield and Kevin McClatchy ran the Pirates, I’m not sure there were scouts assigned to cover Indiana. With Frank Coonelly and Neal Huntington running the show now, there’s word today that the Pirates have ...
WHYGAVS/Bucs Dugout Crossovers: Looking at the rotation
whygavs.com 10/13/2008 — After looking at the hitters a couple of weeks ago , Charlie from Bucs Dugout and I discuss the state of the starting rotation as we head in to Neal Huntington's second winter. Paul Maholm WHYGAVS: Maholm did a great job increasing strikeouts and ...
We Are Now Pirates!!!
themilliondollararm.com 11/26/2008 — Special blog from both Rinku and Dinesh… On November 24, 2008, Rinku Singh and Dinesh Kumar Patel made Indian Sports History becoming the first athletes from that country to sign professional sports contracts here in the USA.
Monday our ...
Doumit gets three-year deal from Bucs | pirates.com: News
pittsburgh.pirates.mlb.com 12/21/2008 — PITTSBURGH -- Over the next few years, general manager Neal Huntington will continue to assemble the pieces that he believes are necessary for the Pirates to once again become a perennial contender. And Ryan Doumit will be there through it all, as a ...
Pirates Sign Indian pitchers
whygavs.com 11/25/2008 — I just got an e-mail from Rob Ircane at Walkoff Walk informing me that the Pirates have just signed Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel, two Indian pitching prospects, to minor league contracts. I can't really put the weirdness of this news into proper ...
Pirates plan patience with offseason moves
post-gazette.com 11/28/2008 — The way general manager Neal Huntington sees it, the Pirates' coming winter could be downright tumultuous. Or not. "It could be an offseason where there is a significant change or one where almost nothing happens," he said. "Quite honestly, it has the ...
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Bleacher Report - MLB 11/26/2008
Yesterday I talked about the Yankees needing to step their game up in pursuit of CC Sabathia , and today it looks like somebody might do it for them—LeBron James.
James was asked yesterday about the deal, and although he said the two ...
