Here’s a running list of injury updates around the Major Leagues:
– Rockies left fielder Carlos Gonzalez left yesterday’s game with left groin tightness according to Jerry Crasnick of ESPN.com. Gonzalez injured himself while chasing down a fly ball at Citizens Bank Park.
– The Dodgers have placed Vicente Padilla on the Disabled List with a sore [...]
05/20/11
So what’s next for Manny Ramirez?
The aging slugger is coming off a season in which he played 90 games and hit only 9 home runs. He’s a free agent now, so you have to wonder where he’s going to be in 2011 and beyond. ESPN’s Buster Olney sent emails to several club talent evaluators around [...]
11/27/10
According to Nick Cafardo of The Boston Globe, the Toronto Blue Jays have 25 area scouts and 21 pro scouts ready to watch all possible trade candidates. The team is not expected to compete this year, and have a variety of Major League players that could fill the needs of contenders.
“I think a lot has [...]
05/03/10
Dioner Navarro has received a two-game suspension for bumping an umpire on Friday night. Because the Rays do not have a backup catcher (other catcher Kelly Shoppach already on DL), they have decided to option right-hander Mike Ekstrom to Triple-A Durham and recall catcher Jose Lobaton.
Navarro was ejected from Friday night’s Rays-Blue Jays game in [...]
04/27/10
Anytime there are more than about three African Americans on the active roster, Juan Pierre says black players across the Majors start joking with each other about “the quota”.
Morgan Campbell of thestar.com explains that if one more African American joins the team, the joke goes, “the team will have to cut one of the originals [...]
04/17/10
Ken Rosenthal of FOXSports syas that rival agents and possibly the Player’s Union are not too happy with Adam Lind’s recent four-year, $18 million contract. Why? In addition to his four guaranteed years, he agreed to three club option years that cover his first three years of free agency through 2016.
“Three club options? The union [...]
04/06/10
According to the Associated Press, the Toronto Blue Jays have signed outfielder Adam Lind to a four-year, $18 million contract.
“It will mean a lot for my parents, for my future kids, just so they can do what they want and they can go to the schools that they want and they can breathe for the [...]
04/03/10
With the Mets signing Fernando Tatis to a one-year contract that means Carlos Delgado is all but gone from New York. So what’s next for him?
A few teams that were looking at Tatis may take a look at Delgado. The Colorado Rockies and Seattle Mariners were interested in Tatis earlier this off-season. Both teams needed [...]
01/29/10
Update 1/26 12:24pm: Jorge Arangure of ESPN says via Twitter that Mets and Delgado have mutual interest. Met’s GM Omar Minaya said, “We still have interest in him, yes.”
Update 1/25 09:42: Ken Davidoff of Newsday Tweets: Minaya says he has been in touch personally with Delgado, and that CD still wants to play 1B – [...]
01/26/10
1/13 12:06pm: According to Jordan Bastian of MLB.com, “Carlos Delgado doesn’t fit into the Blue Jays’ plans.”
1/12 04:44am: According to Mark J. Miller of Yahoo Sports, the New York Mets have stopped by to watch Carlos Delgado in Puerto Rico a couple of times. Delgado is supposedly “not moving well” according to FanHouse (via Yahoo [...]
01/13/10