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Troy Tulowitzki and Carlos Gonzalez, that’s what. Both players saw their stock as baseball players rise to meteoric levels.
In 2010, Tulowitzki won his first Gold Glove award. Baseball Info Solutions gave him its Fielding Bible Award. He didn’t captivate the world just with his glove. He garnered much of his attention from his Ruthian September, in which he hit 15 home runs and had 40 RBI. Only Babe Ruth himself had a better singular month than Tulo.
http://bit.ly/gWvZv8Troy Tulowitzki and Carlos Gonzalez, that’s what. Both players saw their stock... more
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Of of the great class act personalities in baseball during his career in the '80s and early '90s, Dave Smith was incredibly popular on and off the field.
An avid surf fan and one of the more charitable players of his time, Dave Smith was liked by many fans across baseball.
Up until a few years ago, Dave Smith's 199 career saves with the Astros was the franchise record before it was broken by Billy Wagner.
He was a very key member of those 1980 and 1986 Astros teams that made the postseason...
And an All-Star in 1986 and 1990.
He later on went on be a very effective pitching coach for the San Diego Padres in the late '90s.
“He was probably one of the most giving people I ever met,” former Astros reliever Charlie Kerfeld said of Smith via phone Wednesday. “He was probably known around the league as the best tipper around the league. (The news of his death) is a tough one. You ain’t supposed to go this early.”
"He was the most giving, unconditionally compassionate man anyone ever came across," (a coach with Smith when they were coaching the Padres) Tim Flannery said. "Everybody's got Dave Smith stories. Usually it's him reaching into his pocket and pulling out $100 to give to someone selling newspapers for a quarter.
"Going back to his playing days, he was one of the great closers and a fierce competitor," Flannery said. "He also had a zest for life; reckless abandon at times. He's gone at 53. He earned every moment of his life. He packed a lot into it."
"It is with great sadness that the San Diego community learned that it has not only lost a great baseball man, but a great friend to so many of us here," Padres general manager Kevin Towers said in a statement. "He was an integral part of the Padres for many years, as a minor league instructor and coach and later as our major league pitching coach."
Dave Smith was only 53 years old.
An avid surf fan, Flannery said services were pending, but added that he and other surfers plan to paddle out onto the Pacific Ocean to spread Smith's ashes across the water.Of of the great class act personalities in baseball during his career in the '80s... more
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Zambrano pitched the first no-hitter for the Chicago Cubs in 36 years, returning from a sore rotator cuff to shut down the Houston Astros 5-0 Sunday night in a game relocated because of Hurricane Ike.Zambrano pitched the first no-hitter for the Chicago Cubs in 36 years, returning from... more
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When Shawn Chacon gets demoted to the bullpen, it's not a good idea to be the general manager of the team that feels Shawn Chacon has performed bad enough to be demoted to the bullpen.
Naturally after indefinite suspension for insubordination, Chacon has demanded to be traded...
hopefully to a team where the general manager does not mind being grabbed by the neck and tossed to the ground.
Then again, Ed Wade might not be a very good general manager...When Shawn Chacon gets demoted to the bullpen, it's not a good idea to be the... more
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Roger Clemens and his former trainer Brian McNamee are testifying before Congress right now in regards to allegations of steroid usage, HGH usage, potential perjury, etc...
Here's an excerpt from the running blog by ESPN.com's Jayson Stark:
"12:06 p.m. ET
Rep. John Tierney had an experience many of us in the media have had while trying to interview Clemens: We ask one thing. He gives an answer that seems to be in response to some whole other question. And no matter how hard we try, he keeps answering the question he hears, not the question we asked.
Tierney noted three specific times Clemens told investigators he'd never talked to McNamee about HGH -- but then cited two occasions when he confronted McNamee about his injection of his wife with HGH.
Repeatedly, Tierney asked Clemens how he "reconciled" that inconsistency. Repeatedly, Clemens gave answers that indicated that "prior" to those conversations, he'd never had a "specific" discussion with McNamee about HGH.
You wanted to scream out, "Roger, that's not what he's asking." But eventually, Tierney just gave up and moved on.
Been there. Done that. "Roger Clemens and his former trainer Brian McNamee are testifying before Congress... more
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After 4 years of trade rumors since signing his massive contract with the Orioles, Miguel Tejada is free from the sinking ship that is the Baltimore Orioles franchise.
This did cost the Astros Luke Scott, Michael Costanzo, Matt Albers, Dennis Sarfate, and Troy Patton.
Knowing how great the Orioles can be when it comes to any move under the Peter Angelos ownership, the Orioles got nothing in exchange for a salary dump.
The question now is, will Tejada and Kazuo Matsui be enough to pull the Astros out of the cellar?After 4 years of trade rumors since signing his massive contract with the Orioles,... more
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