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The Scorecard: Where have I seen this Yu Darvish article before?
Published 5/13/2008 at Big League Stew
... That Brad Ausmus has been a Major League catcher for 17 seasons is one of them. Brad Ausmus? That long? Really? [The Astros Dugout] • If I were to say that a Major League Baseball player almost broke a pink bat over his knee on Sunday, what are the odds that you'd say it was probably Milton Bradley? [Bugs & Cranks] • Goose Gossage's mustache does not like Joba Chamberlain's ostentatious displays. How's that for irony? [LoHud Yankees Blog] • More on Ken Griffey's possible return to Seattle. [USS ...

Yankee doodles — ’cause the Yanks aren’t dandy
Published 5/14/2008 by Ed Valentine at Bugs & Cranks
It’s time for a Yankees’ link dump. After watching the Yankees lose to the Rays again Tuesday night — the damn first-place Rays, that is — I am too disgusted to think about it, or write about it. So, instead, let’s have a look around at some other interesting stuff to read. ESPN looks at the phenomenon that is Yu Darvish, the 21-year-old pitcher who could make Daisuke Matsuzaka’s contract look like pocket change when he comes to America. Here is what Royals manager Trey Hillman, who managed Darvish in Japan, said about him. “I think ...