According to a baseball source close to CSNEE.com’s Sean McAdams the Boston Red Sox might be interested in signing free agent Magglio Ordonez. The Venezuelan native, could fill their vacancy in left field and give a right-handed hitting power bat to a predominately lefty lineup.
The Red Sox have expressed interest in Ordonez before. McAdams reminds [...]
12/07/10
In what may be a baseball first for two players that will be associated with both World Series organizations, Texas Rangers catcher Bengie Molina and San Francisco Giants pitcher Chris Ray may be entitled to a playoff share and ring from each of their employers. According to a source close to the San Jose Mercury [...]
10/25/10
Peter Gammons of MLB.com reminds us that it
was a little more than six years ago that GM Theo Epstein and the Boston Red Sox had Alex Rodriguez on his way from Texas to Boston until the contract and the Player’s Association got involved.
For those that don’t remember, in the winter of 2003-2004 the Red Sox [...]
04/26/10
Here are your happy hour PRO Rumors:
President and CEO of the Boston Red Sox, Larry Lucchino, may not originally have been on board to do a sign and retire deal with Nomar Garciaparra. Gayle Fee and Laura Raposa of the Boston Herald said, “the Red Sox deny it, but we hear the big one-day contract-slash-retirement [...]
03/11/10
3/10: 07:11am: Lou Merloni of WEEI says that Garciaparras had put in callas over the last couple years to Red Sox GM Theo Epstein to see if there was a possibility to return to the Sox. Unfortunately, that never happened.
Garciaparra was intereted in playing this year for any team, but the opportunities never materialized. He’ll [...]
03/10/10
Here are a few links for Friday (I’ll update it throughout the day):
Ben Maller reminds us that Orlando Hudson is a Type A free agent but since the Dodgers did not offer him arbitration, the signing does not cost the Twins any draft picks.
Nick Piecoro of The Arizona Republic talks about the Diamondback’s working out [...]
02/06/10