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Prince or Pauper: Young Yankee Pitcher Lands on DL
In what many fans saw as their team trading away their franchise, Seattle Mariners fans will now have to reconsider the Michael Pineda trade made back in January.
The 23-year old hurler was placed on the 15-Day DL on Saturday after some tightness occured in his right pitching shoulder. The New York Yankees organization is optimistic that this action will help prevent further injury and might be the explanation for Pineda’s regressing pitch speed and productivity. Pineda, who last season with the Mariners could top out at 99 mph with an average from 95 to 97, has seemed more like a slightly large Doug Fister than the ace power pitcher that the Yankees were hoping to receive. This spring training, Pineda has maxed out at a less than stellar 94 mph. Read More >>
Jamie Moyer: Mind Over Matter
The Colorado Rockies are expected to announce within the next few days that Jamie Moyer will be named to the team’s starting roster. The left-hander will take a shot at history, pitching in the first weekend of the baseball season at age 49, and if he wins, he’ll be the oldest pitcher ever to win an MLB game.
The old man on the pitcher’s mound is a freak, and he’s a freak because of what he isn’t. He isn’t big or tall or strong or fast or intimidating or exciting or radiant or any of the freak touchstones. He is slight and normal and weedy and slow and calming and lackluster and gray. None of these things makes an athlete, and all of them make Jamie Moyer, 49 years old, pitcher for the Colorado Rockies. Read More >>
“Magic” In New Dodger’s Ownership
Do you believe in Magic..? For an astounding $2.15 billion dollars, a sum decided Tuesday night, Frank McCourt believes. That’s how much the Los Angeles Dodgers will cost Magic Johnson’s group. Johnson’s group of investors beat out two others… one that included St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke, and another that included billionaire Steve Cohen and former major league manager Tony La Russa.
The record amount for a major league team would top the $845 million paid in 2010 for the Chicago Cubs. More importantly for Dodgers fans, it will take McCourt out of the Dodgers ownership loop after eight long years. McCourt bought the franchise for $430 million in 2004 but took it into bankruptcy. He won’t be bankrupt anymore once the deal closes though. Read More >>
MLB Teams Visit One Of Japan’s Recovering Tsunami Towns En Route To Opening Day
Members of the Oakland Athletics and Seattle Mariners got a firsthand look at the devastation from the earthquake and tsunami when they visited one of the towns hit hardest by 2011′s disaster in Japan.
Eight players and coaches from the Mariners and Athletics went to Ishinomaki on Japan’s northeast coast and later put on a baseball clinic for students affected by the March 11 disaster. Read More >>
Boomstick Meets Colon In Ranger’s Edition Of Two-Foot-Long Hot Dog
When ESPN Radio in Dallas interviewed Ranger’s team president Nolan Ryan, he did not mince words regarding the Texas Rangers‘ most recent acquisition: a two-foot-long, one-pound gourmet hot dog that could feed three or four fans and costs $26:
Everything really is bigger in Texas. A result of the work of Rangers Ballpark chef Cristobal Vasquez, the dog is a Coney Island-style wiener that will be topped with shredded cheese, chili and sauteed onions. Not to mention the bun is apparently ‘made of exotic bread flown in from France’.
But there seems to be a conflict as to what to call the monster dog. Read More >>
Ready To Take The Last ‘Chip’, Brave’s Third Baseman Decides To Call It Quits At The End Of The Year.
If you were a baseball fan back in 1990, you may remember the hype about a prospect named Todd Van Poppel. He was a big, laser-armed high school kid from Texas, the consensus No. 1 draft pick. But he had committed to attending the University of Texas.
The Atlanta Braves, coming off a 97-loss season, held the top pick. They weren’t willing to take a gamble on Van Poppel. Bobby Cox, the team’s long-tenured general manager, made a last-ditch plea to sign Van Poppel. Poppel said he was going to school, but team’s knew someone would select him. Read More >>
Pitchers and Catchers Report
My father-in-law is a huge baseball fan. He’s lived in all five boroughs of New York, so he feels loyalty to the Mets and the Yankees. I’m a Boston fan, having grown up in Connecticut, so I get a kick out of smack-talking him before games. Let me tell you- he can dish it right back!
After his football team, the New York Giants, swept by my beloved New England Patriots, my father-in-law began his countdown to pitchers and catchers report. He hasn’t been able to make it down to Florida for spring training in a number of years, so my husband and I decided to surprise him with tickets and brand new baseball jerseys. He was beyond. I have no idea how we’ll ever top this gift. Oh well!
Successfully Appealed Suspension Helps Braun’s Image More Than Just On The Diamond
National League MVP Ryan Braun won his appeal yesterday, becoming the first Major League Baseball player to have a positive drug test overturned when an arbitration panel ruled in his favor on appeal and decided against a 50-game suspension for the 2012 season.
The agency that represents the Milwaukee Brewers outfielder, CAA Sports, has a hugely successful baseball business: the agency represents 57 first round draft selections and has negotiated more $120 million in amateur draft signing bonuses. Braun’s agent at CAA Sports, Nez Balelo, was responsible for getting the slugger a five-year contract extension prior to the 2011 season that guarantees the All-Star outfielder $145.5 million through the end of 2020.
The agency was expected to capitalize on Braun capturing the MVP award last season but put those plans on hold after it was leaked in December that Braun had tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug, a charge Braun always denied. Read More >>
Uno, Dos, Tres… Ichiro
The lineup change Seattle Mariners manager Eric Wedge hinted at during the offseason is going to become permanent.
It won’t be Ichiro Suzuki at the top of the Mariners batting order to begin the 2012 season.
Wedge announced Tuesday that he will move Suzuki from his traditional leadoff spot down to No. 3 in the Mariners batting order. It’s not a simple spring training experiment — Wedge is set to make Suzuki’s move permanent and he will figure out who is Seattle’s best option to take over in the leadoff role.
“I’ve done a lot of thinking about it this winter. … Bottom line, it’s for us to have the best lineup 1 through 9 out there,” Wedge said. “I want our lineup to be extended. I think our best opportunity is for Ichiro to be hitting third for us.” Read More >>
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