bleacherreport.com - 11/25/2008
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On Monday, Nov. 24, 2008, the Pittsburgh Pirates made their best baseball decision since plucking Roberto Clemente from the Brooklyn Dodgers in the Rule Five Draft in 1954.
And it might turn out to be even better than that.
In an unprecedented act of progressivism, the Buccos became the first MLB team ever to sign an Indian-born player. In fact, it is the first time in history an Indian-born player has signed a professional sports contract outside his home country.
And it gets better. There are ...
Pirates Sign Patel, Singh
mlbtraderumors.com 11/24/2008 — Patrick Newman of NPB Tracker passes along a report from Yahoo! Japan : the Pirates signed Indian pitchers Dinesh Patel and Rinku Singh to minor league deals. Patel and Singh were finalists in the Million Dollar Arm contest in India.
“Is This Heaven?”“It’s Chhattisgarh.” —
Tirico Suave
The exorbitant cost of starting pitching coupled with the current state of the economy have led one baseball team to do what many corporations have been doing for some time now in an effort save some serious coin: they’ve outsourced a few jobs to India:
On Monday, the Pirates signed two ...
Pirates Sign Two Pitchers Out of India —
Mike Silva's New York Baseball Digest
Tim Dierkes at MLB Trade Rumors reports that the Pirates signed Indian pitchers Dinesh Patel and Rinku Singh to minor league deals. Patel and Singh were finalists in the Million Dollar Arm contest in India. Former Yankees pitcher Steve Trout joined us on NY Baseball Digest Radio and mentioned ...
Widening the Net —
ShysterBall
People have long speculated whether cricket bowlers would make good pitchers. The Pirates are about to find out: Dinesh Patel and Rinku Singh, cricket players who had not picked up a baseball until April, on Monday became the first athletes from India to sign professional baseball contracts, ...
Scouting Reports on Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel —
East Windup Chronicle
We’ve been following the saga of Dinesh Patel and Rinku Singh since they won the Million Dollar Arm contest. Since they just signed with the Bucs, we though it would be useful to readers to get some information on the players and their attributes, so here’s a brief write up to ...
Dinesh Patel and Rinku Singh - Sign with Padres —
Knuckle Curve
Hollywood better start getting ready with the movie. Indian pitching prospects Dinesh Patel and Rinku Singh have both signed with the San Diego Padres.
Patel and Singh both arose to fame due to the reality show in India called Million Dollar Arm. In the reality show, contestants from around ...
Pirates Sign First India-born Major Leaguers —
East Windup Chronicle
As was reported first on NPB Tracker with a Japan Yahoo! story and then confirmed later by ESPN , the Pittsburgh Pirates have signed Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel, the two boys from India that were found at the “Million Dollar Arm” contest that took place last year that I’ve ...
Rinku and Dinesh sign with Pittsburgh, make MLB history —
Big League Stew
America, please meet Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel. They're both 20 years old, they're both pitchers and they're both from India. Both are your newest trailblazers in the world of American baseball. Before this spring, neither had ever picked up a baseball, preferring cricket and javelin. On ...
Bucs Ink Indians Who’ve Never Been To Cleveland —
SPORTSbyBROOKS
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 ...
Rinku And Dinesh Hit Big Time, Will Soon Be Rolling In Rupees [MLB] —
Deadspin
Remember Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel , the Indian teenagers who had a tryout for Major Leage Baseball scouts a few weeks back? The pitchers flew to California to work out in San Francisco and then show their stuff at USC, with the hopes of landing a major league contract. Crazy, right? Neither ...
Pirates sign 2 Indian pitchers (AP) —
Yahoo! Sports - MLB News
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 Pirates. ...
'Million Dollar Arms' Worth Way More —
Bleacher Report - MLB
On Monday, Nov. 24th, 2008, the Pittsburgh Pirates made their best baseball decision since plucking Roberto Clemente from the Brooklyn Dodgers in the Rule Five Draft in 1954.
And it might turn out to be even better.
In an unprecedented act of ...
