The Rockies acquired Jorge de la Rosa from the Royals today as the player to be named in a trade the two teams made near the end of spring training. Along with de la Rosa, the Rockies were given about $200,000 to offset the salaries of de la Rosa and Ramon Ramirez, the player […]
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The Seattle Mariners have designated outfielders Brad Wilkerson and Greg Norton for assignment to make room for Jeff Clement and Wladimir Balentien.
The pair of prospects have been recalled from Triple-A and will be in uniform for the Mariners game tonight.
As rule, the Mariners now have 10 days to trade, release, or outright Wilkerson and Norton […]
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Chad Cordero’s injury woes continue to be a problem. As mentioned last night, Cordero left his appearance last night with an apparent injury. Today’s MRI confirmed that Cordero has an acute tear of the latissimus dorsi muscle.
The injury will keep Cordero out for at least four weeks and maybe up to 8 weeks. […]
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Chad Cordero entered a 6-2 game tonight against the Braves and immediately struggled. Cordero struggled to find any velocity and following a 3-2 pitch to Kelly Johnson, Cordero called the trainer out to the mound and was showing signs of pain around his shoulder of his pitching arm and was promptly removed from the […]
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After being released by the Pirates on Sunday, Matt Morris has decided to call it a career.
“It’s over and I’m happy where I am right now,” Morris said. “In my heart, I’m happy. At the end, it all came to a head very quickly, but I’ve had a great career. It was time to move […]
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The Rockies shuffled their rotation today, sending left hander Franklin Morales to Triple-A and announcing that Mark Redman would have his next start skipped because of a Thursday off-day.
Morales walked five batters and allowed six hits, getting through just 4.1 innings against the Giants on Monday. That outing turned out to be the final […]
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The Atlanta Braves have placed John Smoltz on the disabled list with a “severely inflamed biceps tendon and an inflamed rotator cuff in his throwing shoulder.”
Smoltz had his shoulder examined by Dr. James Andrews on Tuesday and will be re-evaluated after giving his arm some rest.
Smoltz will turn 41 in two weeks, and given his […]
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The Mariners appear to be set to recalling Jeff Clement from Triple-A Tacoma. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer suggested it could be a matter of days before Clement is called up to help the struggling Mariners offense.
Clement is batting .384/.526/.685 - 1.211 through the team’s first 22 games at Triple-A, suggesting he’s all but ready for […]
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Barry Zito’s early season struggles will land him in the bullpen for the time being. Zito fell to a Major League worst 0-6 record after allowing 8 earned runs in the first inning of the Giants game versus the Reds on Sunday.
Zito and manager Bruce Bochy had a meeting today to discuss the move […]
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The Texas Rangers are going to be without their often injured third baseman for the next three to four weeks after an MRI on Hank Blalock’s left hamstring revealed a small tear in the muscle.
The Rangers are expected to place Blalock on the disabled list Tuesday. They will likely use a platoon at third […]
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