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Astros DFA'd Fernando Martinez today. What went wrong with him, wasn't he a huge prospect for the Mets a couple years ago?

 

Injuries and a lack of further development from his early prospect days.

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JA Happ just took a comebacker off his head. Carted off field. Lots of players nearly in tears. Ugly incident.

2 years in a row with something like this, have to wonder if they are going to start seriously considering some sort of helmet/head gear type apparatus for pitchers to wear. Especially with all the head/concussion stuff.

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i still think the clement one looked worse than any of the others
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Halladay to have surgery to clean out bone spur(s) in his shoulder and clean out his labrum/rotator cuff. So it kinda sounds like it might be one of those surgeries where they go in and aren't sure what's wrong and are just going to kind of look around. He claims he can still come back and pitch this year.

 

"They're going to go in and clean up the bone spur, clean up the rotator cuff and the labrum, try and keep that as (uninvasive) as possible," Halladay said Wednesday before the Phillies played the San Francisco Giants.
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can we hire away whoever got Mark Reynolds to trim his K rate by 8% (career 33%, down to 25% this year) to work with Brett Jackson and Javy Baez?

 

or the Chris Davis voodoo guy, assuming one must exist

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Some awesome pics in the article

 

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjkiebus/this-is-what-it-looks-like-when-a-sports-franchise-completel

 

The Miami Marlins have finally found a solution for their boundless attendance issues...The South Florida franchise decided to completely ignore the fact that their entire upper deck exists. The upper bowl of Marlins Park will be closed for all the Monday thru Thursday games of the team's upcoming homestand, and possibly the rest of the season. All ticket holders in the upper bowl will be relocated to lower seats, free of charge.
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http://sports.yahoo.com/news/it-s-always-sunny--sources-say-sunscreen-trick-is-pitchers--latest-way-to-gain-an-edge-173953962.html

 

Two veteran pitchers and one source close to the Red Sox told Yahoo! Sports that about 90 percent of major league pitchers use some form of spray-on sunscreen – almost always BullFrog brand – that when combined with powdered rosin gives them a far superior grip on the ball.

 

"Sunscreen and rosin could be used as foundation for houses," one American League pitcher said. "Produces a tack, glue-like substance that engineers would be jealous of."

 

http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/LNGpsP0735fV.FSlQZkwag--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTM3NQ--/http://l.yimg.com/os/publish-images/sports/2013-05-08/a70eee45-26b9-436c-a45a-c743ce65cf55_1eve4.gif

 

Buchholz's right hand danced all over his body in Toronto. In the first inning alone, he put it to his mouth and wet hair close to a dozen times. Before Jose Bautista stepped to the plate, Buchholz was particularly egregious, twice tapping his non-pitching forearm, the most frequent location of BullFrog application. Controversy chased Buchholz to his next start Monday, when he allowed a season-high four runs in six innings. After the game, Buchholz told reporters: "I did the same thing I've done in all seven starts this year." A review of the TV broadcast showed him going to his mouth and hair far less frequently and not once visibly grabbing his left arm, but photos showed otherwise.

 

He is far from the only one who has lacked prudence. The AL pitcher noted Texas Rangers starter Yu Darvish's propensity to reach for his left arm in his near-perfect game against the Houston Astros and said almost every pitcher, if one looks close enough, is guilty of the same.

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A pitcher threw a 1 hit, CG, shoutout with no BB every day this weekend. Lester (Fri), Miller (Sat), Sale (Sun).

 

Tim, any thoughts on this?

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A pitcher threw a 1 hit, CG, shoutout with no BB every day this weekend. Lester (Fri), Miller (Sat), Sale (Sun).

 

Miller and Sale are on my fantasy team. Sexy.

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