Dodgers sign Paul Maholm. He will be competing for the #5 spot with Beckett and Billingsley. The other two or one will be a long reliever and/or released or traded.
Dodgers sign Paul Maholm. He will be competing for the #5 spot with Beckett and Billingsley. The other two or one will be a long reliever and/or released or traded.
Japanese baseball sensation Masahiro Tanaka chartered his own Boeing 787 Dreamliner to fly him to New York, with the entire plane taken up by his five-strong party and his pet dog.
The ace pitcher, who has just signed a seven-year MLB deal worth $US155 million ($A173.6 million) with the New York Yankees, is believed to have splashed out $US195,000 ($A218,000) of his own money on the one-way flight.
"It's a (chartered) private jet. It's not something the Yankees have prepared," he told reporters at Narita Airport near Tokyo on Sunday.
Tanaka's trip from Japan to the U.S. is pretty interesting:
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2014/02/10/japan-mlb-star-dog-787-charter-us
ACE pitcher ?
Ace is yet to be seen ...
Just because he was good over there, doesn't mean he'll be an Ace here or anywhere near it ....
Tanaka's trip from Japan to the U.S. is pretty interesting:
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2014/02/10/japan-mlb-star-dog-787-charter-us
Personally, I think its about the Yankees making headlines as usual. He could have all the nice planes, trains and automobiles he wants but if he starts out 0-4 or 1-8, those things wont save him.
Derek Jeter has announced that 2014 will be his last season...
Red Sox pitcher Ryan Dempster has decided not to play this season and will be placed on the restricted list. He will not be paid his salary of $13.25 million.
Leave it to the NY Daily News:
Breaking: Ryan Dempster to skip this season
This could free up some money to allow the Sox to re-sign Stephen Drew...
Breaking: Ryan Dempster to skip this season
This could free up some money to allow the Sox to re-sign Stephen Drew...
Gotta wonder if the Red Sox strongly suggested this ... Maybe he'll be back later in the year if they are struggling in the rotation.
“I’m just looking at the 2014 season and know that I won’t be playing this year,” he said. “If something changes then obviously something changes. I don’t see that changing anywhere in the future but I also don’t want to close the door on that. … If this is the end, what a great way to go out.”
I know that his daughter has been ailing, but I don't know if that played a part in his decision. Either way, Ryan is a class act and I wish him and his family well. It's not every day that you hear of an athlete just walk away from $13 MIL.
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