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Spring Training Game 23 Open Thread
Published 3/22/2008 by royalsreview <royalsnightly@yahoo.com> at Royals Review: Front Page Posts
Brian Bannister and the Royals take on the Angels today in Arizona. With the pitching assignments starting to more closely resemble normal season action, we can start to put a little more stock in these Spring Training starts. Not a lot mind you, but maybe more than nothing at all. ...

Baseball Transaction - Sunday
Published 3/24/2008 by Dave Rouleau at Baseball Digest Daily
Cincinnati Ryan Hanigan - Optioned to Louisville (AAA). Cleveland Craig Breslow - Claimed off waivers from the Boston Red Sox. The lefty will not overpower anyone, but he changes speeds nicely and has always had success striking out hitters (K/9 over 9). He actually performed better against righties last season in Pawtucket (AAA). He makes me think of another Brian Tallet (Toronto), where their stuff as lefties is better suited to dominate righties. However, in Breslow's case, he already has the curve ball in his repertoire, something Tallet added this Spring to get more outs against left-handed batters. Nice pick up by the Indians. They had this to say ...