Archive for February 16th, 2007
Glove save (Yahoo! Sports)
LAKELAND, Fla. – As a new season unfolds, the Tigers are putting their World Series failure behind and building on the successes of 2006.
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Scouting Blue Jays Prospect #11: Jean Machi
The Toronto Blue Jays signed Machi as a free agent over the winter after Machi
failed to reach an agreement with his former organization, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.
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Report: Clemens declares ‘I don’t want to play’
Roger Clemens doesn’t think he’s being unclear about his future baseball plans. In fact, he finds the confusion funny.
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Tigers line up for PFP; Foulke retires; Johnson still hobbled (AP)
Tigers closer Todd Jones lined up for fielding practice with the rest of Detroit’s pitchers Friday and awaited his first grounder of spring training. “I kicked it,” said Jones, often a clubhouse comedian. It’s much easier for Tigers pitchers to laugh about their defense now than it was last October, when they threw away [...]
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Glavine thinking about retiring after season — as long as he wins No. 300 (AP)
Tom Glavine is inching closer to 300 wins — and retirement. Needing 10 victories to reach the milestone, the New York Mets’ ace sounds as though he plans to call it quits after this season. “I don’t want to sit here and say definitively,” Glavine said Friday, when Mets pitchers and catchers took their physicals.
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RC Interview with J.J. Picollo
RC’s Bryan Cisler recently spoke with Royals Farm Director J.J. Picollo. Since being hired by GM Dayton Moore last August, Picollo has been responsible for overseeing the development of the Royals’ prospects in the minor leagues.
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Rosenthal’s preview pitch
FOXSports.com MLB insider Ken Rosenthal brings you the latest on Roger Clemens, the offseason’s winners and losers and much more.
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FOXSports.com On Deck
Spring training gets underway as Barry Zito talks 2007, the Cubs sell out, and more from FOXSports.com MLB insider Ken Rosenthal.
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Small tries to rise again in Seattle (AP)
Aaron Small’s long and oscillating baseball career would be otherwise unremarkable if not for one three-month stretch of brilliance with the New York Yankees in 2005. Small, a midseason call-up that year who helped the Yankees reach the playoffs by going 10-0 with a 3.20 ERA, is trying to recapture that form this spring as [...]
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Bottom spots in Astros’ rotation up for grabs (AP)
Wandy Rodriguez shakes his head at the notion that he’s locked up a role in Houston’s rotation. “I’ve got to really work on it,” Rodriguez said Friday after the Astros’ first spring training workout. More than a half dozen pitchers reported to Kissimmee this week with realistic shots at landing the No.
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