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Rays Sign Chris Gimenez

Jon Heyman @JonHeymanCBS

barring something unforeseen, aj trade will be completed w/i a few days. pirates to pay $13M of $33M, give up 2 non-roster minor leaguers

Buster Olney @Buster_ESPN

 

Sources: Yankees and Pirates hope to take their proposed Burnett deal to the Commissioner later today, for approval.

DKnobler @DKnobler

Per @YankeesWFAN, Hideki Okajima failed his physical and will not be in camp with Yankees

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Red Sox say Tim Wakefield will announce retirement today

ESPN Stats & Info @ESPNStatsInfo

Tim Wakefield announces retirement. He was MLB's active leader in wins with 200. Now it's Roy Halladay with 188.

 

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Last time MLB's active wins leader had less than 200 wins: 1879, when Tommy Bond had 195. (via @baseball_ref)

DKnobler @DKnobler

Red Sox say Tim Wakefield will announce retirement today

 

That's too bad. I enjoyed seeing him floating that knuckleball towards the plate every year

Ken Rosenthal @Ken_Rosenthal

Deal needs #MLB approval. #Yankees will pay $20M of $33M left on Burnett's contract, receive two low-level minor leaguers from #Pirates.

 

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Source: #Yankees, #Pirates in agreement on Burnett. Were working through one final detail today. Burnett will take physical Sunday. #MLB

 

Jon Heyman @JonHeymanCBS

debate over exactly which low level minors leaguers will go won't derail aj deal. no issue seen w/ aj physical, mlb ok, either

That's too bad. I enjoyed seeing him floating that knuckleball towards the plate every year

 

I enjoyed watching Paulie knock it out of the park.

Is there anymore knuckleballers out there or was Wakefield the last?

Is there anymore knuckleballers out there or was Wakefield the last?

 

R.A. Dickey

Is there anymore knuckleballers out there or was Wakefield the last?

R.A. Dickey throws some version of one.

Buster Olney @Buster_ESPN

Second scout said he had Kazmir at 88-89 mph, touching 91 mph at his workout today

 

Buster Olney @Buster_ESPN

Scott Kazmir threw at about 86-87 mph today, touched 89 mph in his workout; that's better than last season with LAA. About 10 scouts there.

 

DKnobler @DKnobler

As @joestiglich wrote, Rangers are indeed getting closer on deal to send Uehara to A's

New York Mets @Mets

Johan threw 25 pitches today and worked on location. He expects to pitch again on Tuesday @johansantana

This is something I would love to catch on. I hate missing Sox BP.

 

JRB @julierubes

RT @msanserino: #Pirates announce season ticket holders will have PNC Park access one hour before general public. Can catch watch BP.

This is something I would love to catch on. I hate missing Sox BP.

 

JRB @julierubes

RT @msanserino: #Pirates announce season ticket holders will have PNC Park access one hour before general public. Can catch watch BP.

 

Yeah, I agree. Even if they charged $5 for early entry to the park to watch BP, I definitely would. If they got just 5,000 fans to do this, that's an extra $25K per game. Multiply that out over 81 home games, and that's an extra $2M a year! Sometimes it's hard being a genius.......

Edited February 18, 201214 yr by JoeCoolMan24

Yeah, I agree. Even if they charged $5 for early entry to the park to watch BP, I definitely would. If they got just 5,000 fans to do this, that's an extra $25K per game. Multiply that out over 81 home games, and that's an extra $2M a year! Sometimes it's hard being a genius.......

 

Why would you pay extra money to watch batting practice? The opportunity to catch a meaningless ball?

Yeah, I agree. Even if they charged $5 for early entry to the park to watch BP, I definitely would. If they got just 5,000 fans to do this, that's an extra $25K per game. Multiply that out over 81 home games, and that's an extra $2M a year! Sometimes it's hard being a genius.......

 

Good luck finding 5,000 people to pay an extra $5 on top of their expensive tickets just to watch practice, lol.

Good luck finding 5,000 people to pay an extra $5 on top of their expensive tickets just to watch practice, lol.

The number would more likely be dozens/hundreds. The ballpark is usually pretty empty what, 45 minutes before a game?

OK, so Mr. 3000 is on TV right now (no, I'm not actually watching it). The plot is that a guy reaches hit #3000 and abruptly retires. An analyst finds out 9 years later that 3 of the hits didn't count for some reason, and he returns to get back to the magic number. He has the entire month of September to do it, and fails.

 

Now I know it's a movie, and a poor one at that, but I find it very hard to believe a guy with enough talent to get 3000 hits in his career could return at the age of 47 and not get 3 hits in a month.

OK, so Mr. 3000 is on TV right now (no, I'm not actually watching it). The plot is that a guy reaches hit #3000 and abruptly retires. An analyst finds out 9 years later that 3 of the hits didn't count for some reason, and he returns to get back to the magic number. He has the entire month of September to do it, and fails.

 

Now I know it's a movie, and a poor one at that, but I find it very hard to believe a guy with enough talent to get 3000 hits in his career could return at the age of 47 and not get 3 hits in a month.

The big issue would be how much they let their physical condition go during the couple years after retirement.

Why would you pay extra money to watch batting practice? The opportunity to catch a meaningless ball?

Batting practice, to me, is one of the coolest things to watch. I love watching infield/batting practice and it is also one of the best things about spring training. Especially when you get to catch a great player during BP. Some of my greatest memories were watching Bonds and McGwire taking BP just crushing moon shots.

Why would you pay extra money to watch batting practice? The opportunity to catch a meaningless ball?

 

I've only been to batting practice once, and it was awesome. I saw the Twins bat, and being able to watch those guys blast balls all over the yard was cool. Neither my buddy or myself were able to catch a ball, but catching a HR ball by any Sox player would be awesome, batting practice be damned.

Why would you pay extra money to watch batting practice? The opportunity to catch a meaningless ball?

It's not meaningless to a kid. That ball can make a fan for life which is a lot more income.