Giants catcher Buster Posey was hurt in a collision yesterday and the news regarding his health is bad. Amy Gutierrez of CSN Bay Area reports that Posey has a broken leg and torn ligaments, so he’ll likely be out for the season.
Posey sustained the injury while blocking home plate in the 12th inning of yesterday’s [...]
05/26/11
Today was a huge day in the ongoing McCourt soap opera. Frank who has refused to discuss much of anything with the media, held a press conference in New York after meeting with MLB executives (minus Bud Selig). McCourt said MLB denied the FOX media deal which would have put $300 million up front which [...]
04/28/11
Today in the first inning, Andre Ethier hit a slow roller to the 2nd base side of first which eventually ended up being scored as an infield single. That hit extended his April long hitting streak to 21 games. At 21 games, Ethier’s April hitting streak is now one game longer than Steve Garvey’s streak [...]
04/25/11
Joe Torre has been appointed by Commissioner Bud Selig as MLB’s new executive vice president of baseball operations, a source tells Barry M. Bloom of MLB.com.
Torre’s salary in his new job with Major League Baseball will be around $2 million says Buster Olney of ESPN.
Jon Heyman of Sports Illustrated first reported earlier today that Torre [...]
03/01/11
Former Los Angeles Dodgers’ manager, Joe Torre, is ready to hit the working world again after a brief retirement. According to the Associated Press, Torre is leaning towards accepting a job with commissioner Bud Selig that would allow him to stay in Los Angeles.
“He’s got a position that he thinks that I can handle,” Torre [...]
01/25/11
It’s only been a few months since Joe Torre last managed a game for the Los Angeles Dodgers, and it looks like he’s not ready to hang it up just yet. According to a source close to Terri Thompson and Bill Madden of the New York Daily News, Torre is in talks with Commissioner Bud [...]
01/10/11
Moment 3: Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants hits his 71st home run of the season on October 5, 2001.
Bonds played from 1986 to 2007, for the Pittsburgh Pirates and San Francisco Giants. Bonds’ accomplishments during his baseball career place him among the greatest baseball players of all-time. He has a record-setting seven MVP’s, [...]
12/31/10
According to CSNWashington.com’s Mark Zuckerman the Nationals have hired former Joe Torre’s bench coach Bob Schaefer as their special assistant to GM Mike Rizzo.
Team’s Twitter account adds that “Schaefer brings 30 seasons of professional experience to the Nationals”. And Boston Globe’s Nick Cafardo thinks it’s a great hire by Rizzo.
11/29/10
Gone are the days of putting on your best suit and tie, going into an interview with a smile and ending with a thank you note. If you want to be the pitching coach of the New York Yankees, be prepared for two days of video simulation testing.
According to MLB.com’s Anthony DiComo, each candidate will [...]
11/17/10
New York Yankees’ GM Brian Cashman was at Joe Torre’s Safe At Home Foundation benefit, and Cashman had a few quotes that were captured by The New York Daily News’ Mark Feinsand.
When Cashman was asked about the talks with Derek Jeter:
“We’re in the infancy stages. We’ll have the winter to work through all the conversations [...]
11/12/10