sports.yahoo.com - 12/4/2008
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Veteran right-hander Freddy Garcia may have hit a speed bump on the comeback trail. Garcia, a free agent who finished the 2008 season with Detroit, left a game in the Venezuelan Winter League on Thursday after two innings due to shoulder discomfort, according to Venezuelan newspaper El ...
mlbtraderumors.com - 12/6/2008
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The latest hot stove news involving the Tigers...
MLB.com reports that the Tigers will meet with Adam
Everett 's agent at the Winter Meetings. The defensively-talented shortstop has other suitors as well. According to Jon Paul Morosi , ...
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Tigers Rumors: Everett, Laird, Garcia
beck.mlblogs.com - 12/7/2008
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MRI results on free agent Freddy Garcia's arm
revealed no structural damage, just tightness in his throwing
shoulder. That dispels an earlier report from a Venezuelan paper that stated he would miss four months with a biceps injury. Garcia's agent, ...
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Garcia update: Shoulder tightness
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Minor moves as we wait for the Winter Meetings to Begin.
The Sommer Frieze —
... is .230-28-68 with 169 K, OPS+ 109. Which explains why the soon-to-be 33 year old has never received 400 AB in a season.
Bobby Howry has signed on with SF. Howry, 35, righty reliever, was 7-5, 5.35 for the Cubs in 2008. 1 save, ERA+ 84. For his career, he is 42-43, 3.68, ERA+ 125.
Yankee OF (10 for 40 this year, 7 for 8 in sb) Justin Christian is playing winter ball in Mexico, and not doing badly. .294-3-17 in 143 AB, 12 SB in 13 attempts.
I read recently where Freddy Garcia’s comeback has hit a bump as he has more arm trouble.
Dave Ross is ...
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