fangraphs.com - 20 days ago
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As Dave alluded to earlier, the Pirates are set to acquire second baseman Akinori Iwamura from the Rays for (per Ken Rosenthal) right-handed reliever Jesse Chavez.
In a vacuum, this is a win for the Pirates. Iwamura is at-worst a league average player making less than what a win costs. His ...
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community.post-gazette.com - 20 days ago
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community.post-gazette.com —
The Pirates are close to acquiring infielder Akinori
Iwamura from the Tampa Bay Rays, possibly as soon
as tonight. The word that they were involved in talks came at 3:04 p.m. this afternoon on the Post-Gazette's Twitter account .
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Pirates close to acquiring Iwamura
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Pirates Acquire Akinori Iwamura
Milwaukee Brewers Blog - Bernie's Crew —
The Pittsburgh Pirates acquired second baseman Akinori Iwamura for right-handed reliever Jesse Chavez. As Dave alluded to earlier, the Pirates are set to acquire second baseman Akinori Iwamura from the Rays for (per Ken Rosenthal) right-handed reliever Jesse Chavez.
In a vacuum, this is a win for the Pirates. Iwamura is at-worst a
league average player making less than what a win costs. His second
base defense is average to slightly above, although his quick feet
sometimes gives the impression of so much more. Iwamura’s ...
Rays hand Pirates some free wins (because they had to)
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The Rays have traded second baseman Akinori Iwamura to Pittsburgh.
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Brew Crew Ball —
... The Pirates acquired Akinori Iwamura for the Rays. It's a nice move for the Pirates, but won't have a tremendous impact on the amount of wins by the Pirates. ...
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The Crawfish Boxes —
... stumbled across this yet, but some of the eggheads over at Harvard got together and created a blog on sports. It's (obviously) pretty smart and on sports other than baseball, but here's a thought-provoking piece on parity in baseball. It's much more thought-provoking than Justice's latest blog post on the subject, simply because it doesn't bring years of bias into the equation.
Just a quick note that one possible Astros target, Akinori Iwamura, was traded to the Pirates. Some interesting articles popped up all across the web here and ...
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buccofans.com 20 days ago — The Rays are expected to deal Akinori Iwamura today, according to Marc Topkin of the St. Petersburg Times. Roger Mooney of the Bradenton Herland believes Iwamura is headed to a National League club as a part of a sign and trade deal. So could that club be the Pirates?Dejan Kovacevic recently had ...
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post-gazette.com 20 days ago — The Pirates tonight made the first move of what might be a busy offseason, acquiring veteran infielder Akinori Iwamura from the Tampa Bay Rays for reliever Jesse Chavez. Agreement on the trade was reached in the afternoon, but the teams waited until ...
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raisethejollyroger.com 20 days ago — DK just tweeted that he “hears the Pirates [are] part of trade talks” with the Rays’ mouthful of an infielder.
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theghostofmoonlightgraham.wordpress.com 19 days ago — The Tampa Bay Rays and the Pittsburgh Pirates got together and made a trade yesterday.
The Tampa Bay Rays sent 2B Akinori Iwamura to the Pittsburgh Pirates for RHP Jesse Chavez. The Pirates will assume all of the $4.85 million on Iwamura's contract for 2010.
Rays trade second baseman Iwamura to Pirates
sportsillustrated.cnn.com 20 days ago — ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) -- The Tampa Bay Rays have traded second baseman Akinori Iwamura to the Pittsburgh Pirates for right-handed reliever Jesse Chavez.
Rays get something for nothing in Iwamura trade
hardballtimes.com 19 days ago — I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by Tampa Bay's ability to turn Akinori Iwamura into a young, cost-controllable fireballing reliever.
It was essentially a done deal that Iwamura would become a free agent so Tampa could move to Ben Zobrist as a full-time second baseman (with Sean Rodriguez ...
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fangraphs.com 20 days ago — Dave Cameron and R.J. Anderson have broken the news on the regular blog, but if you haven’t heard, the Pittsburgh Pirates are in the process acquiring Akinori Iwamura from the Tampa Bay Rays for reliever Jesse Chavez .
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mlbtraderumors.com 28 days ago — Rays second baseman Akinori Iwamura faces a $4.85MM club option for 2010 with a $550K buyout, according to Marc Topkin of the St. Petersburg Times . Topkin notes that under the terms of his contract, Iwamura will become a free agent if the Rays ...
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Yahoo! Sports - MLB News 20 days ago
The Tampa Bay Rays have traded second baseman Akinori Iwamura to the Pittsburgh Pirates for right-handed reliever Jesse Chavez. The deal was announced Tuesday night. Iwamura hit .290 with one homer and 22 RBIs in 69 games during the final season of a ...
