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Delgado to sign with Red Sox
Carlos Delgado has agreed to a minor-league deal with the Boston Red Sox, according to a major-league source.
The deal stipulates that Delgado must be promoted to the major-league roster by Sept. 1 or he will have the opportunity to become a free agent, the source said.
Delgado will be paid at a rate of $20,000 per month at triple-A and will receive a pro-rated portion of $3 million in the majors. The Red Sox have agreed not to offer arbitration.
Delgado also would get $75,000 for winning ALCS MVP and $100,000 for World Series MVP.
A two-time All-Star, Delgado had hip surgery in February and has not played at all in the 2010 season.
Delgado has played for the Blue Jays, Marlins and Mets in his 17-year MLB career. He is a career .280 hitter with 473 home runs and 1,512 RBIs. He has hit 30 or more home runs in 11 different seasons.
I thought that to. He is lucky, I bet Tito was holding his breath. Was a awsome play though.
I bet a lot of players don't get that chance. He didn't have to be out there for drills or anything.
On a side note, somebody break up the O's. Buck has them playing like a baseball team.
Yea, that is true to. Javy should have backed off, your right. It would have been a different game if it wasn't for those 3 unearned runs. Despite the fact that Boston is so beat up by injured players, in other divisions they would be right in the thick of things. In the Central they would be in 1st. They are not that bad of a baseball team. 3 of 4 would really improve their chances here of pulling off what their owner calls a miracle.
I think since he came up this was Cervelli's worst game. He looked like a real rookie out there. Dropped ball. lightly jogging over to get it. Out of position backing up a play.
I am not surprised. I was thinking the same thing about Damon as the Tigers continue their fall out of contention..That is going to turn interesting there to. Then today I saw a article about Damon would be open to staying there or if the team wanted to rebuild or bring some kids up he wouldn't be upset at all.
That also could be the kiss of death. How many times have we heard owners say their GM's were safe or their managers were safe and end of the season comes and they are gone.
Well maybe the Roids are not as fluent in the clubhouse as they were before. They are getting hurt right and left on that team.
lol I thought about that to. I am sure you don't hear a peep out of him. He is a smart cookie though, he knows how to pick and choose his battles.
I am not sure why Ryan would want to be part of owning a team when they are going to do nothing but lose money because of the Yankees. He has been around baseball and the team long enough to know that. Well maybe he doesn't.
I think a split with a great team like Tampa while playing in Tampa is nothing to shake a stick at. I would take it in a heartbeat. Tampa is a very solid team. One thing I always look for are the teams that can have a .500 or above record on the road. Twins are close however I think Chicago has been playing over their heads and the Twins will take over 1st place and wont give it up when they do. The Twins can play with the big boys and they are going to start really showing it down the strech.
Chan Ho Park has been claimed off of waivers by the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Yankees announced this afternoon. The right-hander had been DFA’d on Saturday to make room on the roster for Kerry Wood. Signed to a $1.2 million deal this winter after a strong season with the Phillies, Park went 2-1 with a 5.60 ERA for the Yanks. In 35.1 innings, he allowed 40 hits — seven of them home runs — while walking 12 and striking out 29. Fans grew to dread his appearances, but he’ll always be remembered for one early-season TMI press conference in Boston. I, for one, am glad to see the Pirates are still willing to take on Yankee has-beens.
That has to be about the lowest point in a players career. But I do remember a certain knucklehead having a ball bounce off his head and become a home run. Which is worse?lol
AJ didn't do really bad til that home run. That was over the plate and screamed hit me hard all the way. I think that was the hardest hit ball I have seen all year. It was clobbered. Then he completly fell apart. I was really hoping he got out of that inning because I knew he was going to get yet another bronx cheer.
CC gave up 3 runs without having his best stuff. I say he got Duped by Giardi today.I think they would have been better suited to rest after the plane ride home and hold them out against the Blue Jays for a game. Blue Jays are not exactly push overs but they don't have the 2nd best record in all of baseball.
You can see the future. Mind telling me tomorrows lottery numbers?.lol
Joe Girardi has a very bad day vs. RaysThe Yankees' manager sat A-Rod among others on Sunday, and it cost his team dearly
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Over the course of a baseball season, there are games that are lost in the first inning, games that are lost in the bottom of the ninth and games that are lost at any and all times in between.
The New York Yankees' 3-0 defeat at the hands of the Tampa Bay Rays on Sunday was one of the few that was lost at the posting of the lineup cards.
Yes, James Shields (four hits, no runs, 11 strikeouts) was outstanding. And for the third time in four post-All-Star Game starts, CC Sabathia was just OK. Lance Berkman, one of the three new Yankees, had the jitters, Austin Kearns was pretty much invisible and Kerry Wood -- fresh off late-night plane flights from Toronto and Cleveland -- was left in for five batters too long. Not even Robinson Cano had any heroics left, having used all of his up on Saturday night.
But from the moment third-base coach Rob Thomson performed his daily ritual -- carrying the lineup sheet from the manager's office to the clubhouse door, where it is tacked up for perusal by the media -- there was a definite feeling that this would not be the Yankees' day.
No Alex Rodriguez? No Brett Gardner? Berkman at first in place of Mark Teixeira? Kearns starting in left?
If it wasn't for the name "Jeter" appearing where it is just about every day, at the top of the list, it would have been difficult to determine at first glance that this was a Yankees lineup card at all.
That was just the beginning of a strange day for Yankees manager Joe Girardi, who is always concerned about resting his horses and somehow -- on this day, in this game, against this team at this point in the season -- chose to rest three of them. (Teixeira technically got only a half-day's rest, but still.)
Worse than that, he went and defeated his own purpose by using Rodriguez to bat for Kearns in the seventh, necessitating that he also rouse Gardner from his day of rest because he now needed a left fielder.
"They didn't play a full game, they weren't out there a lot,'' Girardi said after the game -- although before the game, when asked if he would try to avoid using Rodriguez at all, Girardi said, "That would be wonderful.''
In the end, nothing Girardi tried worked out the way he wanted it to. Berkman looked like a butcher at first base, although he did make a terrific play in the fourth inning that saved at least one run and quite possibly two. Teixeira, who does not like to DH, hit like a guy who'd rather be out in the field, going 0-for-4 with two strikeouts. A-Rod is still stuck at 599 home runs after striking out looking at a fastball. None of the guys he wanted to rest really got much of a rest at all.
And if not for one titanic Cano swing in the ninth inning of Saturday's game, the Yankees might well be heading home Sunday night in second place behind the Rays, rather than clinging to a one-game lead in the division.
Berkman, at least, had an excuse. "I don't think I've played in a meaningful game in like three years,'' he said. Change the timeframe to nine months, back to the 2009 World Series, and you can say the same about the Yankees.
The difference is, even if they hadn't done it yet this season, this team and this manager have played in plenty of meaningful games in the recent past. They know which games to bear down on, and which to ease up on.
With a chance not only to win a series against their nearest division rivals and, more importantly, put some air between themselves and a club they haven't been able to shake all season, Sunday's game certainly seems to have qualified as one you really want to win.
So how Girardi -- a manager who prides himself on the mastery of statistics and tendencies and spray charts and matchups -- could choose to send out the B team against an A opponent is a mystery not even he could fully explain.
"I'm just playing so I don't blow somebody out,'' he practically shouted after the game when asked about his lineup. "I had talked about giving Alex a day off, and I can't play Tex 37 out of 38 days or I'm gonna break him down. People they're gonna question it, but I gotta think about the long haul.''
He also pointed out that this was Aug. 1, not Sept. 15, but the truth is a loss today counts every bit as much as one that occurs six weeks from now. And having come in here believing they were about to have a great weekend, the Yankees left having in fact lost some precious ground.
"I've said all along this is going to go down to the wire,'' Girardi said. "They're a great team with some grist young pitchers. We lost because we didn't score any runs. That's all.''
True, Shields' changeup kept the Yankees off-stride all game. At one point, he struck out six straight batters and didn't allow a base hit from the second until the sixth. Meanwhile, Sabathia, once again lacking command of his fastball and unable to put hitters away -- he had only three strikeouts -- surrendered three runs in the first three innings. That was all Shields, no doubt emboldened by the diminished Yankees lineup, would need.
"All he threw were changeups, all game,'' said Nick Swisher, who had two of the Yankees' four hits. "I think the biggest thing about it is, they weren't really for strikes. We were chasing them. The next time we get in a situation like that, we have to make sure we only swing at strikes.''
Overall, it was a disturbing day for the Yankees. Berkman got his first hit, a ringing single in the sixth, but his play in the field reminded you of how good Teixeira is out there. So much for giving Teixeira very many DH days. It is too early, of course, to tell much about Kearns, but Wood showed the inconsistency that has plagued him throughout his injury-riddled career.
Wood hit 95 mph on the gun to his first batter, Evan Longoria, then broke off a beautiful slow curve to set him down looking to end the seventh. His long day should have ended right there, but Girardi -- who before the game had described Wood as "probably a one-inning guy'' -- sent him out for the eighth. Wood quickly unraveled, loading the bases on two walks and a single and forcing the manager to use another arm, Chad Gaudin's, to finish up the inning.
"For a guy who hasn't pitched since July 11, I was pretty pleased,'' Girardi said of Wood. "I wouldn't judge him too much on today because he's pretty rusty.''
The manager presumably is not. Then again, the Yankees, like Berkman, haven't played many meaningful games in quite some time.
With seven more games against the Rays looming in September, there's plenty of time for both of them to remember how.
Wallace Matthews covers the Yankees for ESPNNewYork.com. Follow him on Twitter.
It is bad when you have the dirt marks there and you get the call wrong.
He looks real nervous. I was thinking that to. He looks very nervous.
Wow, Texas charging players now? Not bad. Never would have thought they would have spent more money on trades than the yankees.lol I really believe the Phillies made out better than many people think. Winning can be catchy and so can losing. It is obvious that the Astros are not a winning team. Knowing your going out everyday and busting your butt and your probably going to lose can get old. But knowing you bust your butt and pitch a good game can bring very good things seems to bring the best out of some.
No problem. We didn't make out to bad and we didn't lose a ton. I am still scratching my head a bit but Cashman did good without just splurging.
The definitive meaning of Designated for assignment:
Any player on the 40-man roster may be designated for assignment. The term is sometimes abbreviated as DFA or DFA'ed. When a player is DFA'ed, he is immediately removed fromt the 40-man roster.
The player's team has 10 days to from the date of designation to return the player to the 40-man roster or to trade, release, or outright the player to Minors. A player may only be designated for assignment if the 40-man roster is full and a player needs to be added.
However, in order to outright a player, he must first clear outright waivers. While the player is on outright waivers, he may be claimed by any other team for the $20,000 waiver fee. Even further, if a player is outrighted and it is his second removal from the 40-man roster during his career, then he has the option to decline the outright assignment and opt for or declare free agency instead.
Also, if player is released, then the team must pay all of the remaining salary unless another team signs him--which any team can do for as low as a prorated portion of the 327K minimum salary--in which case the original team would only pay the remaining difference. (In other words, the player's new salary is subtracted from what the original team still owes him.) Additionally, before a player can become a free agent, the team must ask for release waivers on the player. While he is on release waivers, any team claim the player for a $1 waiver fee, but that team also would be responsible for all of the player's remaining salary.
The only time a designated player can be returned to the 40-man roster is when the player provides proof of an injury that hindered performance, in which case the team may place that player on the disabled list.
He was sent down, he will be back up when they expand the roster. He is one guy I hope he gets his act together. He was just starting to get the ball up to 94,95 MPH Same thing with him is location. One thing that makes some pitchers last as long as they do is when they can't over power anyone anymore they learn to locate pitches. Andy has done that and can pitch a few more years because of that. If Chan Ho Park can do that it would be great for him. He is really trying harder than Jaba.
That is one player I have always said I don't want . Well, not totally true. Very early in his career in Clev I would have taken him. But he is as low class as they come. Even Joe Torre having a seperate set of rules for having manny on the team I think is a insult.
They are not spending much cash either. But I don't think they are done. Someone is getting traded. I don't know who but I wouldn't be surprised if we see Brett Gardner go today. He may not be a all star player but he gives it all he has. I don't want him traded. If anyone I wouldn't mind seeing Jaba traded. I had some hopes that Melancon would be able to come back up next year or so.
starting to rethink this. Someone going to be flipped in a trade. Why take a player we really don't need, unless there is going to be a reason we need him that has not been announced yet.
shaking my head here and wondering why they feel they need to nake this deal? Just because he is there?
He did a great job settling down after that rough start. Think it was 35 pitches. He definitly earned another start. They should tell Andy slow down, we need you in the strech here.
The difference between Chan Ho Park and Jaba. Chan Ho Park did great at 1st and then completly loses the strick zone. Jaba gets angry because the other team is hitting his good stuff. Chan Ho Park looks like he is really upset because he is not pitching up to par.
Yea it is a done deal.
I have a feeling tomorrow will be very busy as some of the prices start to drop.
Orioles tap Showalter to be manager. Finally, been waiting weeks for them to get this done.
I am sure the players union is all over this one like there is no tomorrow. They don't want anyone to give up a dime.
Prince Fielder would be huge in that park. If they could pull that off and not get killed in what they would have to give up it would be killer.
I would love to know how much money the Phillies got the Astros to cover of that deal.
Fan in LeBron's Heat jersey draws ire
CLEVELAND -- A fan wearing a Miami Heat jersey of LeBron James drew the ire of the crowd at a Cleveland Indians game and was escorted out of the ballpark.
Fans in the left-field bleachers chanted obscenities and pointed at the man Wednesday night during the sixth inning of the game between the Indians and New York Yankees.
Hundreds of fans joined in before security led the man out of Progressive Field.
As he left, some fans followed him toward the gate with more derisive chants. Various media reports indicated he was with a female companion, and that fans also threw debris at them.
The man was shown showing off his No. 6 jersey to the crowd as he walked down the steps.
James' recent departure from the Cleveland Cavaliers to the Heat caused a lot of anger in the city.
Many fans were near the left-field foul pole in hopes of catching the 600th home run ball by Alex Rodriguez.
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.
a bag of balls and make him sign a deal that he will wear his hat the right way.lol He still looks like a dufus.
Well there are many pitchers that come out and do fantastic that get built up by their local media. That is just the way it is. Never heard local media say well he did great last night again but he sucks. I think he is better suited in the pen but he is so heaed strong that he is dam man and doing nothing wrong. I think the Blue Jays wanted him so they could make him a starter.
I just saw on ESPN Phillies did have scouts watching Carmona.
If Roy Oswalt agrees he will be a Phillie today.
Well I personally think it is a steal for the Yankees. I have looked at it from KC's point of view and I agree with you. I don't think Jaba is all that. He can pitch and needs to pull his head out of his tail and come down off his high horse. But I don't feel he is a super star. I am just telling you what I was told.