bucsdugout.com - 11/25/2008
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The Pirates signed Indian pitchers Dinesh Patel and Rinku Singh to minor league deals. They were finalists in something called "the Million Dollar Arm" contest in India. Like the signing of Mpho Ngoepe , the South African shortstop, these guys may never pan out, but its good to ...
walkoffwalk.com - 11/24/2008
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My favorite new Japanese baseball blog NPB Tracker
has the biggest and best news of the week
: the Pittsburgh Pirates have signed our favorite Indian contest winners Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel to minor league contracts! Hopefully, this means ...
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Baseball Yatra is Great Success: Pirates Sign Rinku and ...
pittsburgh.pirates.mlb.com - 11/24/2008
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PITTSBURGH -- The Pirates, who have emphasized a
need to find talent via every available outlet, have
gone where no team has gone before. On Monday, the Pirates signed two young Indian pitchers, 20-year-old right-hander Dinesh Patel and 19-year-old ...
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Bucs sign pair of Indian hurlers | pirates.com: News
psamp.blogspot.com - 11/25/2008
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Neal Huntington Makes It Official: Rinku and Dinesh Are Pirates
Walkoff Walk —
... "These young men have improved a tremendous amount in their six-month exposure to baseball, and we look forward to helping them continue to fulfill their potential."
Still no update to the blog, but the Twitter feed posted a link to the MLB.com story. Which, I suppose, is pointless because the only people who follow 'mdollararm' on Twitter are Walkoff Walk readers.
Here's what the Pittsburgh Pirates blogosphere has to say about the move:
Bucs Dugout:
Expect some serious mental errors if and when they play ...
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Pirates Sign Indian pitchers
whygavs.com 11/25/2008 — I just got an e-mail from Rob Ircane at Walkoff Walk informing me that the Pirates have just signed Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel, two Indian pitching prospects, to minor league contracts. I can't really put the weirdness of this news into proper ...
Pirates sign two pitchers from India
sports.yahoo.com 11/25/2008 — The Pittsburgh Pirates announced late on Monday that they have signed pitchers Rinku Singh and Dinesh Kumar Patel as non-drafted free agents. The two Indian pitchers were discovered while participating in the Million Dollar Arm competition in ...
Non-NPB News: Pittsburgh Sign Indian Pitchers
npbtracker.com 11/24/2008 — Found on Yahoo! Japan: the Pirates have signed Indian pitchers Dinesh Patel and Rinku Singh. EastWindupChronicle had a detailed report on Patel and Singh earlier in the month. The two signed minor league contracts and will participate in the ...
Non-NPB News: Pittsburgh Sign Indian Pitchers
npbtracker.com 11/24/2008 — Found on Yahoo! Japan: the Pirates have signed Indian pitchers Dinesh Patel and Rinku Singh . EastWindupChronicle had a detailed report on Patel and Singh earlier in the month. The two signed minor league contracts and will participate in the Pirates’ ...
Pittsburgh Pirates sign contestants of Indian reality TV show
sports.espn.go.com 11/25/2008 — PITTSBURGH -- 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 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.
Pirates sign contestants of Indian reality TV show
sports.espn.go.com 11/26/2008 — The Pirates put their hope in 20-year-old pitchers Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel, neither of whom had picked up a baseball until earlier this year, by signing them to free-agent contracts.
We Are Now Pirates!!!
themilliondollararm.com 11/26/2008 — Special blog from both Rinku and Dinesh… On November 24, 2008, Rinku Singh and Dinesh Kumar Patel made Indian Sports History becoming the first athletes from that country to sign professional sports contracts here in the USA.
Monday our ...
'Million Dollar Arms' Worth Way More —
Bleacher Report - MLB 11/25/2008
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 ...
