Jeremy Affeldt

Here’s a running list of injury updates around the Major leagues: – Thrid baseman Evan Longoria suffered a partial tear of his left hamstring and will be out for six-eight weeks according to Marc Topkin of the St. Petersburg Times. – According to David O’Brien of the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Jason Heyward is still a little sore [...]

Here’s a running list of trade rumors around the Major Leagues: – The Texas Rangers are still looking for bullpen help, and according to Ken Rosenthal of FOXSports one of their targets is Athletics’ Andrew Bailey. Buster Olney of ESPN adds that the Reds, Blue Jays, Mariners and Red Sox are among other teams interested in the closer. – [...]

The San Francisco Giants have traded left handed pitchers Jonathan Sanchez and Ryan Verdugo to the Kansas City Royals in exchange for outfielder Melky Cabrera the team announced. Earlier today, we learned that Major league sources close to Jon Paul Morosi of FOXSports said the team was willing to deal Sanchez in order to “free up money,”desperately [...]

As free agency kicks off, many clubs and players have decisions they need to make on potential option year clauses in their contracts for next year. Here are just a few notes from around the league. -According to the Associated Press (via Sports Illustrated), the St. Louis Cardinals have decided to decline their options on right [...]

The Giants are still in the post-season run and even though their offense has been terrible, their bullpen has been one of the best in the League despite the injuries they have sustained. Andrew Baggarly of the San Jose Mercury News points out that Giants GM, Brian Sabean, will have a difficult job trying to put [...]

As many of you know, I live in Venezuela, here baseball is a big deal, but we get only one maybe two games a day. To solve that problem I decided to get myself a TV package that has four more sports channel so I could enjoy up to five baseball games a day. I kinda [...]

The San Francisco Giants dedicated their game versus the Los Angeles Dodgers to Bryan Stow, a 42-year fan that was brutally attacked at Dodger Stadium on March 31. San Francisco played host to Stow’s family, and more than 80 members of the paramedics company AMR (Stow’s employer).  More than $58,000 was collected during Monday’s game at [...]

The New York Mets most durable reliever over the past three seasons, Pedro Feliciano, is due to be a free agent this offseason and both Feliciano and the Mets will hold off any contract discussions until after the season. “We’re going to wait,” Feliciano said, according to Adam Rubin of ESPNNewYork.com. This year, Feliciano, is 3-6 with [...]

3/28: 12:20: Andrew Baggerly of San Jose Mercury said that the Matt Cain contract extension will be announced within the hour. 3/26: 14:05: According to Andrew Baggarly of the San Jose Mercury, he speculates that pitcher Matt Cain will be receiving a contract extension soon. He says “Cain was super upbeat today.” Hank Schulman of The San [...]

3/25 00:36: Nightengale breaks down the contract of Affeldt: Year Amount Option 2010 $4.5 million 2011 $4.5 million 2012 $5 million option It is not clear if the option is a team, player or mutual option. He was originally going to get paid $4 million on the last year of a two-year, $7 million contract. 3/24 19:50: Bob Nightengale of USA Today is reporting that the Giants [...]