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MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com: Nationals Decline Option On Austin Kearns
Bleacher Nation | Chicago Cubs News, Rumors, and Commentary: Has Jim Hendry’s Passion for Austin Kearns Abated? We’ll Find Out
Circling The Bases: Hot Stove Roundup: Reagins, Maybin, Cuddyer, Snyder
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Best memories: getting him, inside-the-park HR, some really good fielding. Worst memories: everything else. http://tinyurl.com/yeurhcf #nats 11/7/2009 |
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RT @ESPN_baseball Nationals declined $10 million option on Kearns - http://tinyurl.com/yeurhcf 11/7/2009 |
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EVERYBODY DANCE!!!!!! RT @khudak11: RT @ESPN_baseball: Nationals declined $10 million option on Kearns - http://tinyurl.com/yeurhcf #nats 11/7/2009 |
Nationals Decline Option On Austin Kearns
MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com —
... The Nationals declined their $10MM option on right fielder Austin Kearns, according to the AP. They'll instead pay a $1MM buyout. Kearns represents the last of the day's multiple obvious option decisions. ...
Has Jim Hendry’s Passion for Austin Kearns Abated? We’ll Find Out
Bleacher Nation | Chicago Cubs News, Rumors, and Commentary —
... a $10 million (ha) option on Kearns, and he is now a free agent. So now we’ll see, does Hendry still desire Kearns?
The 29-year-old Kearns hit only .195 with three homers and 17 RBIs in 174 at-bats this season, when he was hampered by a thumb problem. Elbow and foot injuries limited Kearns to 86 games in 2008, when he batted .217 with seven homers and 32 RBIs.
In 2007, his only full season in Washington, Kearns hit .266 with 16 homers and 74 RBIs. ESPN.
Kearns can be viewed as no more than a bench bat at this point, possibly ...
Hot Stove Roundup: Reagins, Maybin, Cuddyer, Snyder
Circling The Bases —
... . On the surface it makes sense since Rod Barajas is about to hit free agency, but Synder is coming off back surgery in September and has two years and $11.25 million left on his contract. With top-prospect J.P. Arencia nearly ready for the majors, color me skeptical. - And finally, the Nationals have declined Austin Kearns' $10 million option for 2010 , while the Rockies ...
A Late Lazy Sunday...with Good Reason
The DiaTribe —
... (notably LaPorta and Brantley and, to a lesser degree Andy Marte), then we’re just running around in circles with this thing and lessons are going unlearned at the corner of Carnegie and Ontario. Outside of that deplorable scenario (the one where Duncan and Kearns take AB away from Brantley or a healthy Laporta…or even Marte into June) occurring, let’s keep the cracks to Shelley Duncan’s resemblance to the mutant biker from “Weird Science” or marveling at the fact that the Nationals are paying $1M to Austin Kearns this season by declining his $10M club option. ...
Indians: Lazy Monday: Sleep Deprivation Edition
Ohio Sports Report —
... or marveling at the fact that the Nationals are paying $1M to Austin Kearns this season by declining his $10M club option. On the topic of team's not wanting to foot the bill to keep a player around and dumping them for peanuts, ...
