The Toronto Blue Jays have claimed right handed pitcher Jesse Chavez off waivers from the Kansas City Royals according to the team official Twitter account.
Chavez was designated for assignment by the Royals earlier this month. The right hander had a 10.57 ERA in 7.2 innings with the Royals in 2011.
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10/21/11
The Kansas City Royals have announced that they have claimed left-handed pitcher Aaron Laffey off of outright waivers from the New York Yankees. To make room on the 40-man roster for Laffey, the team designated Jesse Chavez.
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10/11/11
7/27 12:13: Jayson Stark of ESPN tweets, “Braves looking for OF who can play CF. Chances of getting Cody Ross slim. Telling teams they’re set “unless somebody knocks us over”
7/26 16:58: “I think we’re still looking internally at the pieces that we have,” Wren said early Monday evening in regards to the [...]
07/27/10
6/22 19:04: Jenifer Langosch of MLB.com says the Pirates are optioning Akinori Iwamura to Triple-A Indianapolis. They could not find a suitable trade for Iwamura. He will report to Indianapolis on Friday.
6/21 11:48: Pittsburgh Pirates GM Neal Huntington said, “a handful of clubs have expressed some level of interest” in trading for Akinor Iwamura. Many [...]
06/23/10
6/16 15:49: ESPN’s Buster Olney says the Pirates are willing to eat a lot of money in order to trade him. The team has also talked to Iwamura about going to Triple-A.
6/16 13:50: According to Jenifer Langosch of MLB.com, the Pittsburgh Pirates have designated second baseman Akinori Iwamura for assignment. Iwamura, the team’s highest paid [...]
06/16/10
David O’Brien of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution says the Atlanta Braves have called up right-handed pitcher Chris Resop from Triple-A Gwinnett. The team had a Tuesday deadline to either put him on the Major League roster, trade him or allow other teams a 72-hour window to sign him.
To make room for Resop, the Braves optioned right-hander [...]
06/15/10
Here’s a quick review of what tangible accomplishments each team made during the Winter Baseball Meetings 2009. We can spend all day and re-hash all the rumors, but in the big picture rumors don’t win World Series Titles. I’ll focus on the more important transactions. I’ll stay away from the minor players and smaller transactions. [...]
12/11/09
Update 9:02am PST: The Rays have signed Soriano for 1 year at $7 million or slightly above according to Ken Rosenthal’s Tweet. This is all pending the exchange of medicals. This also avoids an arbitration hearing between Soriano and the Rays in early 2010. Soriano could have fetched as much as $8 million for 1 [...]
12/10/09