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It’s never easy to walk away from the game of baseball. It’s that much harder to do so when you have to leave behind a team and a city where you won five World Series titles.
On Tuesday, with tears in his eyes, New York Yankees catcher Jorge Posada announced that he was retiring from the game he loved.
After a somewhat tumultuous 2011 season where Posada struggled with the decrease in playing time, it became apparent that the Yankees were not going to re-sign the 40-year-old. And although there were rumors that Posada would join another team, he already new that he was a Yankee for life.
While all of the talk regarding the Jesus Montero trade for Michael Pineda has been about how the New York Yankees finally added some much-needed pitching depth to their starting rotation, the Seattle Mariners are going to come out of this trade not looking too shabby, either.
Montero will provide Seattle with the sort of pop that the team hasn’t seen since the days of Buhner, Martinez and Griffey Jr. In 18 games with the Yankees this past September, Montero hit .328 with four home runs and 12 RBI. Eight of his 20 hits went for extra bases and Montero exhibited the ability to drive the ball with authority to all fields.
The 2011 Gibby Award winners were announced Friday night handing out trophies to big name players and World Series champions alike.
The Gibby Awards determined through a comprehensive six-week voting process that was weighted 25 percent apiece to national and local media members; front-office personnel; former players; and fan balloting at MLB.com. In the last 4 years, fans have cast more than 40 million votes in 19 online categories.
This year, player of the year honors went to the Dodgers Matt Kemp who finished the season with 39 homers, a .326 batting average, 126 RBIs, and 40 stolen bases. Kemp garnered 33.2% of the vote followed by Blue Jays Jose Bautista, Detroit‘s Miguel Cabrera and the Brewers Ryan Braun.
If you are wondering why you have never heard of Yu Darvish, that’s because he’s only pitched in ballparks half a world away. But that’s probably going to change as MLB free agency gets underway.
Darvish just isn’t another great Japanese pitcher, he’s actually putting up some of the best pitching statistics ever in the history of Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball.
In 232 innings for the Nippon Ham Fighters (yes, the Ham Fighters), Darvish struck out 276 batters, posted a 1.44 ERA and won 18 games to only six losses.
Okay, first I want to start by saying, I wish the Mets could add a big name or two or three this off season. It would be nice for the Mets to make some sort of splash. But currently when you look at the Mets you see stories like “Mets seeking loans via minority stakes.” Yeah, good times, good times. The Mets play in the biggest market in baseball (if not the world) yet they are forced to act like they play in Rhode Island or something. (Nothing against Rhode Island it’s just small.) Therefore for now, I’ve decided not to think about the Mets. Instead I will focus on who the Yankees should add.
The Players Choice Awards are history and several players received honors along with some great money donated to charity as well. The awards announced on Thursday on MLB Network benefitted the Major League Baseball Players Trust. Winners of 2011 Players Choice Awards will designate charities to receive grants totaling $260,000 from the Major League Baseball Players Trust, the charitable foundation created by the players. And in addition to the $70,000 in grants he received for his charity of choice, Verlander contributed $30,000 of his own money.
The Players Choice Awards winners were as follows:
Detroit starter Justin Verlander, the 2011 Outstanding Pitcher in the American League and the 2011 Player of the Year.
Yankees center fielder Curtis Granderson was named Outstanding Player in the American League.
For the first time in three seasons, more fans attended a Major League Baseball compared to the previous season; albeit it was only a 0.5$ increase.
Before the season began, baseball officials were looking for a 5-7% increase in attendance. But the combination of a tough economy and a historically soggy season in which 51 games were rained out, MLB Commissioner Bud Selig was left happy to see the downward streak end.
“It’s not just one thing. These numbers are a direct manifestation of everything we’ve been doing, because everything feeds into it,” Selig said. “Having the wild card and these great races down the stretch, how aggressive the clubs have been, [MLB Advanced Media], the [MLB] Network. All of our outreach. They’re all factors, and the end result is that the sport continues to be more popular than ever.”
If you were to ask any baseball fans in New York what their nightmare scenario would be, they would tell you that they lived it last night: A.J. Burnett on the mound in an elimination game.
Down 2-1 in the best-of-five American League Division Series to the Detroit Tigers, the New York Yankees had not other choice but to send out Burnett to save their season and some how come up with a must-win in Game 4.
In typical Burnett fashion, the enigmatic righty didn’t waste any time in bringing Yankees fans’ nightmare to life, allowing the bases to get loaded with two out in the first inning. However, it was former Tiger Curtis Granderson who would bail out his struggling pitcher. After Don Kelly hit a line drive to center field, Granderson took a step in and froze, then scrambled back to make a ridiculous leaping catch to end the inning.
As if the New York Yankees needed any extra help—now Mother Nature is throwing them a bone?
Following Friday night’s heavy rainstorm that forced the suspension of Game 1 of the ALDS between the New York Yankees and Detroit Tigers, it is being reported that Tigers ace Justin Verlander won’t pitch again until Game 3 of the ALDS on Monday.
Verlander threw just 25 pitches before Friday’s series opener in New York. The game was tied 1-1 before the rain forced play to a halt in the second inning. Doug Fister will now pitch when play resumes Saturday while Max Scherzer will get the start for the Tigers in Game 2 on Sunday.
