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draysbay.com - 26 days ago

Rosenthal: Rays Will Receive Jesse Chavez in Return For Akinori Iwamura

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More photos » by Charles Rex Arbogast - AP 2 months ago: Pittsburgh Pirates relief pitcher Jesse Chavez, left, and right fielder Delwyn Young build a tower out of drinking cups during a rain ...

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Rays Send Aki Iwamura to Pirates for Random Prospect
Royals Review — ... who during this season earned the benefit of the doubt in my mind. After learning that Iwamura was only under contract through 2010 however, I was less excited. As often gets said with deals like this, "well, the Pirates will probably trade him later," however, as Royals fans, we know that sometimes that doesn't happen. Looks like Charlie at Bucs Dugout picked a bad day to get sick. What's your take? (Relevant links after the jump.) Rosenthal: Rays Will Receive Jesse Chavez in Return For Akinori Iwamura - ...

Rays hand Pirates some free wins (because they had to)
Beyond the Box Score — ... 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 did think it would be nice for us to whip out the good ol' fashioned Sky Kalkman Trade Value Calculator (a Beyond the Box Score original!) once again. The Players Akinori Iwamura was the Rays' starting second baseman this season, having moved ...

Ruining the World Series, Just Like A-Rod and Boras: Rays Trade Iwamura
Driveline Mechanics — ... You know, I kept my mouth shut when analyzing the Freddy Sanchez contract. But with reported trade of the Rays' Akinori Iwamura to the Pirates for Jesse Chavez,  I can't keep it in any longer. Think back a couple of years ago when the game of baseball was the victim of possibly one of the worst breaches of its sacred code since some guy didn't run out a ground ball. You all know what I'm talking about: when Incarnation of Evil Scott Boras and his Willing Servant Alex Rodriguez announced that A-Rod would be ...

Wednesday links
Angels blog — ... ?“It just seems like something the older, more hardened players of yesterday wouldn’t wear — not something you’d have seen on Babe Ruth or Pete Rose,” says Stimson, who lives in Los Angeles and works in online marketing. “There’s a notion that today’s players are coddled, multi-gazillionaire athletes, and maybe this is an outgrowth of that.” • The Rays make room for Sean Rodriguez . • Tim Dierkes of ...