sandiego.padres.mlb.com - 11/11/2008
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SAN DIEGO -- Trevor Hoffman, the Major League career saves leader, could be finished as a member of the San Diego Padres. General manager Kevin Towers confirmed on Monday that the Padres withdrew their contract offer to Hoffman for 2009. The contract proposal for the 41-year-old Hoffman was ...
sports.espn.go.com - 11/11/2008
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The Braves and Padres continue to make progress
in trade negotiations around pitcher Jake Peavy, but at...
the same time, San Diego is talking with the Cubs about the All-Star - with the Padres and Chicago engaging a third team as part of their proposals.
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Padres still talking Peavy deal with Braves, Cubs
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www3.signonsandiego.com - 11/11/2008
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Are they really done with Trevor. I've told
friends it doesn't make much sense to have an...
expensive top-shelf closer on a 99 loss team but the reality of it makes me want to re-consider. I'm Ok with not bringing Hoffman back but I can't figure out ...
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Organization pulls Hoffman contract offer from the table
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You stay classy, San Diego: Padres fax a good-bye to Hoffman
Big League Stew —
They say divorce hurts the children the most. Trevor Hoffman hasn't been a kid since the mid-'80s, but the very adult business of the San Diego Padres cutting salary, which apparently is tied to the team's owner splitting with his wife, has kicked baseball's career saves leader to the curb. Several news outlets (among them, the San Diego Union-Tribune, ESPN's Buster Olney and MLB.com) are reporting the Padres have rescinded a contract offer to Hoffman, a free agent, who has piled up all but two of his 554 saves with the Padres since 1993. (He had a couple with the Marlins.) The Padres say they're slashing expenditures, most notably by trying ...
Legend Herb Score Passes; Some Stuff
The Tribe Daily —
Let's start out on a sad note. If you haven't seen it yet... Indians Broadcasting Legend and former pitcher Herb Score has passed away at the age of 75. Too young to remember most of his work, but I think any Indian fan at the right age knows who Herb is and what he's done. 97 is too long ago to remember anything to begin with. "Today is a sad day for the Cleveland Indians family and for Cleveland Indians fans everywhere," team president Paul Dolan said in a written statement. "We have lost one of the greatest men in the history of our franchise. Generations of Indians fans owe their love of the Tribe to Herb Score, who was a powerful pitcher and ...
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Fallout of Hoffman news likely to ripple —
Major League Baseball News 11/11/2008
From "Hell's Bells" to Heath Bell. San Diego's decision to withdraw a 2009 contract offer to Trevor Hoffman could alter the PETCO Park playlist. Hoffman has been emerging from the Padres' bullpen to the tolls of that AC/DC track, but apparently, ...
