April 23, 2008
Alianzas Latinas Roberto Clemente Jr
1-800-BEISBOL Alianzas Latinas Roberto Clemente Jr. Sirviendo la comunidad.
Posted by Ahorre at 01:12 PM
December 28, 2005
Washington Nationals Second Base
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Washington Nationals Jose Vidro said he doesn't intend to give up second base to please new arrival Alfonso Soriano.
Vidro, 31, a three-time All-Star, is recovering from a knee injury. He played in only 87 games in 2005, hitting .275 with seven homers and 32 RBI.
Soriano, 26, hit .268 with 36 homers, a career-best 104 RBI and 30 steals last season. The Nationals acquired the four-time All-Star earlier this month from the Texas Rangers. Soriano has said he won't change positions, and Vidro said he won't either.
Soriano "is a tremendous plus for the team. But I'm a bit confused about what can happen if he doesn't want to play left field," Vidro told the local daily, El Nuevo Dia for Tuesday's editions
Posted by Ahorre at 01:05 PM
December 09, 2005
Baseball Winter Meetings
2005 Baseball Winter Meetings - The final-day deals in what turned out to be the most active swap meet in years included the Red Sox sending shortstop Edgar Renteria to the Braves for third baseman Andy Marte and the Reds acquiring Tony Womack and cash from the Yankees for two Minor League players -- infielder Kevin Howard and outfielder Ben Himes. Baseball Dreams
Posted by Ahorre at 07:21 AM
November 14, 2005
A-Rod Gana Jugador Mas Valioso del Beisbol 2005 Liga Americana
1-800-BEISBOL - Alex Rodríguez de los Yankees ganó el lunes el galardón al Jugador Más Valioso de la Liga Americana por segunda vez en tres temporadas, al superar a David Ortiz en una votación que premió a un jugador de campo en vez de un bateador designado.
Posted by Ahorre at 07:06 PM
July 15, 2005
Juan Marichal Beisbol Dominicano
Por Edwin "Kako" Vazquez Con un raro movimiento propio con su pierna apuntando casi hacia el cielo JUAN ANTONIO MARICHAL lanzador de la REPUBLICA DOMINICANA dominó a su antojo la década del 60 desde la colina de los suspiros descargando sus serpentinas con gran precisión en el difícil arte de lanzar.
Aquel niño nacido en LAGUNA VERDE, RD no se imaginaba que a la postre se convertiría en un signo nacional de un pueblo rico en sabor a béisbol. Debutó en las mayores el 19 de abril de 1960 con los GIGANTES DE SAN FRANCISCO a los 22 años de edad. En sus primeros pininos como lanzador de liga grande tiró para (6-2) con 2.67 de efectividad en 59 entradas lanzadas. Juan Marichal Beisbol Dominicano
Posted by Ahorre at 07:51 AM
April 03, 2005
Baseball Latino Beisbol de Grandes Ligas
Ruben Lojam — Cuando esta noche de comienzo la nueva temporada del mejor béisbol de Grandes Ligas con el enfrentamiento de los Yankees de Nueva York y Medias Rojas de Boston, ambos equipos volverán a ser los que tengan con sus poderosas novenas mayores posibilidades de competir por el derecho a disputar el Clásico de Otoño.
Posted by at 04:06 PM
January 04, 2005
Randy Johnson to the Yankees
The Yankees will have a 72-hour window to negotiate with Randy Johnson and complete the trade that was approved Monday by Commissioner Bud Selig
NEW YORK -- The deals that would send Randy Johnson to the Yankees from the Diamondbacks and Shawn Green from the Dodgers to Arizona were approved Monday by Commissioner Bud Selig.
A 72-hour period for the Yanks to negotiate a contract extension with Johnson and the Diamondbacks to do the same with Green begins Tuesday morning. Both players have no-trade clauses in their current contracts, which each has a year to go at $16 million.
"I'm glad we're in a place where it will be finalized or it won't," Ken Kendrick, the lead general partner of the Diamondbacks, told MLB.com on Monday.
The Yankees and Diamondbacks agreed in principle and signed off on the three-for-one swap for Johnson by the end of business on Thursday. Concurrently, Arizona negotiated the tentative deal for Green. But the Commissioner's office was closed last weekend for the New Year's Day holiday, delaying the filing of the papers for three days.
In the deal, the Diamondbacks would get pitchers Javier Vazquez and Brad Halsey, along with catcher Dioner Navarro and $8.5 million to $9 million in cash, in exchange for Johnson, the five-time Cy Young winner who has been coveted by the Yankees since prior to last July's non-waiver trade deadline.
The Diamondbacks will then flip Navarro or one of two other young catchers, Koyie Hill or Chris Snyder, and a minor league pitcher to the Dodgers for Green and $8 million.
Selig had to approve both transactions because they include a sizeable amount of cash. But a precedent was certainly set early last year, when the Yankees obtained Alex Rodriguez from Texas. The Rangers agreed to pay $67 million of the remainder of his original 10-year, $252 million deal, the most lucrative contract in baseball history.
The payment made by the Yankees to Arizona would help defray some of the $34.5 million owed to Vazquez for the remaining three years of his contract. The right-hander signed a four-year, $45 million contract with the Yankees after a trade brought him to New York from Montreal prior to last season.
The $8 million from the Dodgers would pay half of Green's 2005 salary. Johnson is scheduled to earn $6 million in deferred dollars out his $16 million this season.
If Green and Johnson waive their respective no-trade clauses, all the players involved in the deals will have to pass physicals before the trade can be made official.
The Yankees are believed to be prepared to extend Johnson's contract for two seasons at around $16 million a year, giving the left-hander a shot at reaching the 300-win plateau in his stellar career. Johnson has a record of 246-128 losses over 17 years for Montreal, Seattle, Houston and Arizona. Likewise, the Diamondbacks are also expected to offer Green an undefined extension.
Johnson, who is first all-time among Major League left-handers with 4,161 career strikeouts, underwent surgery on his right knee during the 2002 season to remove the remaining cartilage. Johnson has a substance injected into the knee to help absorb the impact of his 6-foot, 10-inch frame landing on his right leg when he pitches.
Green is a career .282 hitter with 281 homers in 11 season from Toronto and the Dodgers.
The Yankees thought they had acquired Johnson two weeks ago as part of a three-team megadeal with the Diamondbacks and Dodgers. But Los Angeles pulled out of the trade, sending New York and Arizona back to the drawing board. In that deal, the Diamondbacks would have received Green and pitcher Brad Penny and Los Angeles would have landed Navarro.
Yankees president Randy Levine and Jeff Moorad, Arizona's CEO-elect, spoke numerous times last week and worked out the trade before the end of the year, which was stipulated arbitrarily by Johnson and the Diamondbacks as a deadline. Alternately, the Diamondbacks then reinstituted talks with the Dodgers to acquire Green.
This offseason, the Diamondbacks have spent nearly $82.5 million, adding free agents Troy Glaus, Russ Ortiz, Royce Clayton and Craig Counsell. The $24 million saved on the Johnson deal -- the Big Unit's salary, plus the nearly $9 million of Vazquez's salary paid by the Yankees -- would allow the Diamondbacks to further play the market.
Meanwhile, the Yankees have already added free agent pitchers Carl Pavano and Jaret Wright and free agent first baseman Tino Martinez, spending about $63 million in the process. Johnson would join Pavano and Wright in a New York rotation that also includes holdovers Mike Mussina and Kevin Brown.
Barry M. Bloom is a national reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.
Posted by at 02:55 AM
May 31, 2004
Mariano Rivera hace historia como relevista
nueva york/ap — El panameño Mariano Rivera está demasiado concentrado en su trabajo como para preguntarse qué lugar ocupa entre los mejores relevistas de todos los tiempos.
El cerrador de los Yankees de Nueva York se convirtió en el 17mo serpentinero en conseguir 300 salvamentos, la noche del viernes, en el juego que su novena ganó por 7-5 a los Devil Rays de Tampa Bay.
Sin embargo, desestimó su logro, y dijo que está más orgulloso de lo que ha hecho en las postemporadas.
“No creo que se compare”, dijo Rivera, quien tiene 30 rescates en los playoffs, incluidos nueve en la Serie Mundial. interpreten mal. Aprecio lo conseguido, pero no se compara con aquello”.
Rivera no permitió ninguna carrera en el noveno para su 17mo salvamento en la Liga Americana, la mejor marca del circuito.
El panameño es el cuarto lanzador en conseguir 300 rescates con un solo equipo, junto con Trevor Hoffman, Dennis Eckersley y Jeff Montgomery.
“Es el mejor”, dijo su compañero Derek Jeter, quien pegó uno de los cuatro jonrones de Nueva York. “No me importa cuántos salvamentos tengan otros. La forma en que él los ha conseguido, no en la temporada regular sino en los playoffs, creo que le merecerían estar en el primer lugar de la lista”.
El timonel de Nueva York, Joe Torre, coincidió.
“Es alguien muy especial. Le fascina competir, siempre ha respondido realmente bien en los grandes juegos”, dijo. “Pienso que cuando uno habla de su carrera, debe pensar que la razón por la que irá al Salón de la Fama es por la postemporada. Nadie se le compara”.
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