Top Cuban Prospect Defects
duelingcouches.blogspot.com 7/2/2009 — As a result DP can't get his hands to the keyboard...nuff said. "Aroldis Chapman, a Cuban considered by many scouts to be the best left-handed pitching prospect in the world, has defected from the national team, several sources have confirmed to ESPN The Magazine. Chapman, 21, walked out of ...

Yanks Interested in Top Cuban Pitcher?
slidingintohome.blogspot.com 7/3/2009 — While recently playing in a tournament in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Cuba's top pitching prospect, Aroldis Chapman defected from the Cuban national team. Apparently, the Yanks are interested. Here's more from SI.com : Aroldis Chapman, whose age was reported to be 21 years old, walked out of his ...

Chapman Defects
bleedingblueandteal.com 7/2/2009 — Aroldis Chapman, the Cuban starter who made a name for himself during WBC play this Spring, has defected from the Cuban National Team and plans on signing with a Major League club. Chapman has terrible control and lacks polished secondary offerings ...

Top Cuban pitching prospect missing from tournament
usatoday.com 7/6/2009 — A Cuban pitcher considered by many baseball scouts to be the No. 1 left-handed prospect in the world left his hotel and vanished ...

Aroldis Chapman Defects
mlbtraderumors.com 7/2/2009 — Aroldis Chapman is a 21 year-old lefty who's touched 100 mph with his fastball. Interested? According to CubaenCuentro.com , Chapman defected from the Cuban national team while the club was stationed in the Netherlands (English version here ).  ...

Defected!
athbloggs.blogspot.com 7/2/2009 — 21 year-old Cuban pitcher Aroldis Chapman with a 100 mph fastball has defected. If you watched any of the Cuban WBC games you may have seen him pitch (or at least remember the announcers talking about him.) Apparently the guy wants to go by the name "A-Chap" – gee, how novel. The 21-year-old ...

A potentially significant Cuban defection
bases.newsvine.com 7/2/2009 — Via MLB Trade rumors comes word that a 21 year-old Cuban pitcher with a 100 m.p.h. fastball has defected (source, in Spanish, here).

Chapman Defects From Cuba
puristbleedspinstripes.com 7/2/2009 — From here El pitcher Aroldis Chapman abandona el equipo nacional en Holanda Pitcher Aroldis Chapman abandons the national team in the Netherlands Roger Machado, director del equipo, dijo a CUBAENCUENTRO.com que el lanzador había abandonado el hotel, pero que no podía confirmar 'su deserción'. ...

Cuba's Aroldis Chapman Defects
mvn.com 7/2/2009 — Jorge Arangure Jr. of ESPN The Magazine reported today left-handed pitcher Aroldis Chapman has defected from the Cuban national team. According to the report, Chapman defected from the team while they were in the Netherlands competing in a tournament, walking right out of the front door of the ...

Cuban Prospect Has Five Extra Birthdays
mlbnotebook.com 7/4/2009 — Picked this up from MLB Trade Rumors via Twitter. Jack Curry of the New York Times reports that Cuban lefthander Aroldis Chapman  may be 26 years old rather than the 21 he was believed to be. "[Chapman's] age was reported Thursday as 21, but reports in March at the World ...

Yankees beat Blue Jays for 8th win in 9 games — Red Sox & MLB - BostonHerald.com 7/3/2009
NEW YORK - A.J. Burnett quickly got the New York Yankees back to their winning ways. Burnett scattered six hits over seven innings, Robinson Cano and Alex Rodriguez homered,...

Yankees 4, Blue Jays 2: Yankees Find That Walks and a Bunt Work, Too — NYT > Baseball 7/3/2009
Robinson Cano and Alex Rodriguez hit home runs, but the Yankees scored twice in the fifth without hitting the ball out of the infield.

Geoff Watches the Toronto Blue Geays Game — Bleacher Report - MLB 7/3/2009
For something completely different today, I decided to watch the Toronto Blue Jays play baseball. How unlike me. The Jays took on the New York Yankees in the Bronx, and I settled into my couch and took notes. For your reading pleasure, I have put ...

Eighth inning role much ado about nothing — Blogging the Bombers - NY Daily News Blogs 7/3/2009
Brian Bruney and I agree on something: this whole eighth-inning thing is getting ridiculous. On Wednesday, Joe Girardi proclaimed that Bruney was his eighth-inning guy. That night, with a two-run lead in the eighth, the manager used Alfredo ...

Bruney moved out of setup role — Major League Baseball News 7/3/2009
With Phil Hughes expected to see more opportunities as a setup man, Yankees manager Joe Girardi will attempt to find earlier innings for struggling Brian Bruney.