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The Detroit Tigers are talking with Curtis Granderson about a long-term contract extension. Curtis Granderson is not set to became a free agent until the end of the 2011 season, however. Last year Granderson made $410,000 and was thinking that maybe the team could sign him a likeminded contract for the 2008 season. The club now has more of a reason to sign Curtis to a long-term contract over the next few months after he was almost selected for his first All-Star game. The Detroit Tigers would prefer the contract to stretch a minimum of one season. At this point contract length or salary have not been discussed.
January 28th, 2008
The Seattle Mariners are continuing to pursue a trade for Baltimore Orioles ace Erik Bedard. the Cincinnati Reds also remain in the hunt, but the Mariners have the edge because they are willing to part with top outfield prospect Adam Jones. Jones has been slated to start in right field for the Mariners in 2008.
January 8th, 2008
The Brewers and the Mets have recently exchanged their players. Milwaukee sent catcher Johnny Estrada to the Mets and got reliever Guillermo Mota in exchange. Mota is a 34 year-old reliever who is coming off his ninth Major League season. His experience with the Mets ended up with 2-2 with a 5.76 ERA in 52 appearances after returning from a 50-game suspension for using performance-enhancing drugs. The Mets, in their turn, contracted Johnny Estrada to a two-year, $5 million contract that will pay $3.2 million in 2008.
December 20th, 2007
Mariano Rivera is one of those people who is not indifferent to baseball. He tries to stay away from everything connected with the use of performance-enhancing drugs in the game. Therefore he was not that much interested in the last week’s report from the former Senator George J. Mitchell. To prevent such things Rivera prefers to counsel teammates and speak up in meetings, but he prepares on his own and keeps things simple.
December 18th, 2007
Controversy surfaced yesterday regarding Guillen even before the Kansas City Royals were able to confirm that the player had been added to the roster. It was reported that union officials were negotiating with MLB officials on terms of a suspension for Jose Guillen that resulted from his alleged purchase of human growth hormone and steroids from May 2002 through June 2005. The report caught the Kansas City Royals off-guard and drew a quick denial from the league’s executive vice president for labor relations Rob Manfred.
December 7th, 2007
Commissioner Bud Selig commended the Hall Of Fame voters for selecting Kuhn throwing his support behind Marvin Miller, who was left out by the Veterans Committee for the 2nd time this year. Selig said he was surprised that Miller didn’t receive the required support given his important impact on baseball. However, Miller himself was not surprised. It was enough for him to look at the panel to understand that his chances of induction were slim.
December 5th, 2007
Famous baseball players Bowie Kuhn (who died in March at the age of 80), Walter O’Malleyand 3 more were featured on the Baseball Hall of Fame while Marvin Miller, who faces different attitudes from different people, was snubbed. The reaction was quite ambiguous. The five elected will be incorporated into the Hall on July 27 in Cooperstown, N.Y. They will be joined by any players elected in traditional voting by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America to be announced Jan. 8.
December 4th, 2007
The details of A-Rod’s revenue-sharing bonuses in his new New York deal finally have been agreed upon and approved by the MLB. If A-Rod attains all 5 of the $6-million bonuses, his total offer will be worth $305 million. The draft contract was agreed upon a couple of weeks ago with a base of ten years and $275 million. The bonuses were the most difficult points to agree upon, as the New York Yankees don’t typically include incentives for awards such as MVP or Gold Glove, and the baseball league doesn’t typically allow statistics-based bonuses.
November 26th, 2007
The Red Sox 2B Dustin Pedroia and the Milwaukee Brewer infielder Ryan Braun were named MLB’s 2007 rookies of the year in their respective divisions yesterday. Dustin Pedroia, of the WS champion Red Sox, received 24 of the 28 1st-place votes in balloting that was conducted by 2 writers from each of the fourteen AL cities. The player also received 4 2nd-place votes and 132 total points. Ryan Braun, a 3B with the Milwaukee Brewers, captured the NL award from the Baseball Writers Association of America.
November 13th, 2007
Tuesday brought new life to the debates concerning the instant replay. In their annual Winter Meetings in Orlando, Major League Baseball General Managers voted 25-5 to recommend a rule change that will allow umpires to use instant replay in order to help determine home run calls. But is a right decision for MLB? Commissioner Bud Selig is against using replay. However, he acknowledges that his office may have been too conservative in the past, causing “glacier-like movement.”
November 9th, 2007
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