hardballtimes.com - 30 days ago
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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 ...
fangraphs.com - 30 days ago
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fangraphs.com —
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 ...
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Pirates Set to Acquire Akinori Iwamura
community.post-gazette.com - 29 days ago
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By Dejan Kovacevic | 10:25 p.m. Tuesday Akinori
Iwamura would be "interested" in exploring a long-term contract...
with the Pirates, he said in a conference call just now from Japan. Some highlights of the call, during which agent Yoshi ...
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Iwamura 'interested' in talking long term
fangraphs.com - 11/3/2009
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fangraphs.com —
According to Mark Topkin, the Rays are close
to completing a trade of Akinori Iwamura to an...
unnamed team. A more recent report from Dejan Kovacevic pegs the Pittsburgh Pirates as the potential partner. This post isn’t an analysis of that trade, ...
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[THE HANGOVER] The One Where We Discuss How A Salary Dump Will Apparently Change Baseball Forever…Or Not
Rays Index —
... The Hardball Times feels Akinori Iwamura is “clearly overpaid,” and is surprised the Rays were able to get a “fireballing reliever.” [The Hardball Times] ...
Round 'em Up: Thursday 11.5.09
Milwaukee Brewers Blog - Bernie's Crew —
... Akinori Iwamura from Tampa for right-handed reliever Jesse Chavez. Evan Brunell of The Hardball Times assumes the unpopular position of claiming that the Tampa Bay Rays won the deal. Since the Rays were reportedly going to non-tender Iwamura later in the offseason, Brunell asserts the organization won for "getting something for nothing." I would characterize the deal as more of a win-win. ...
Astros Link-Fest: Fresh off the Hot Stove
The Crawfish Boxes —
... 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 here. I'm formulating a longer post based on these articles about the general state of the GMs ...
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raysindex.com 11/3/2009 — You just knew the Rays would only pick up Akinori Iwamura’s option if they already the framework for a trade in place. With the deadline for the Rays to decide on Aki’s option either Thursday or Friday, Marc Topkin is reporting that the ...
Rays Trade Akinori Iwamura To Pirates
theghostofmoonlightgraham.wordpress.com 30 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 30 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.
Akinori Iwamura Dealt To Pirates
tylersarticles.blogspot.com 30 days ago — As expected would happen this offseason, the Akinori Iwamura has come to an end in Tampa Bay. The Rays on Tuesday sent Iwamura to the Pittsburgh Pirates in exchange for relief pitcher Jesse Chavez. Given the context, I think that the deal makes sense for both sides. Iwamura was an excellent ...
Iwamura and Chavez
sabernomics.com 29 days ago — Yesterday, the Tampa Bay Rays traded Akinori Iwamura to the Pittsburgh Pirates for relief pitcher Jesse Chavez . The Rays were motivated by the fact that they would have to pay a $650,000 buyout if they did not pick up Iwamura’s $4.25 million ...
Rays and Pirates Trade
baseballmusings.com 30 days ago — The Tampa Bay Rays send Akinori Iwamura to the Pittsburgh Pirates for reliever Jesse Chavez :
UPDATE, 7:00: Rays make it official, trading Iwamura to Pirates for Chavez. Added bonus, Rays save the $550,000 buyout they would have had to pay Iwamura for declining his option.
UPDATE, 6:06: ...
Pirates acquire Iwamura from Tampa Bay
post-gazette.com 30 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 ...
Hot Stove: Pirates-Rays Trade
rotosavants.com 29 days ago — We already have two trades. Here's the first. Rays trade Akinori Iwamura to the Pittsburgh Pirates for Jesse Chavez Chavez is a decent haul for the Rays who didn't have a spot anymore for Iwamura. Zobrist should now be enshrined as the permanent second basemen, unless the Rays want to push him ...
Rays hand Pirates some free wins (because they had to)
beyondtheboxscore.com 30 days ago — The news broke out today that the Pittsburgh Pirates acquired infielder Akinori Iwamura from the Tampa Bay Rays for reliever Jesse Chavez . Now, there have been many sources of analysis on this topic, so I won't delve too much further into this, but I ...
Rays trade 2B Iwamura to Pirates (AP) —
Yahoo! Sports - MLB News 30 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 ...
Pirates acquire 2B Iwamura from Rays (AP) —
Yahoo! Sports - MLB News 30 days ago
Akinori Iwamura apparently didn't check the standings after being traded from the Tampa Bay Rays to the Pittsburgh Pirates. Iwamura, acquired to be the Pirates' starting second baseman, is hoping his new team can be a contender soon. Really. "I ...
