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Posted in Baseball on Sep 1st, 2010
Texas Rangers stud Cliff Lee is among the best in the business. If he’s not the best left-handed starter in the majors then we’d love to know who is. But, this month has not been going his way. Lee gave up seven runs in 4 2/3 innings to the Kansas City Royals today, and four [...]
Posted in Baseball on Jul 31st, 2010
The Seattle Mariners have optioned 1B Justin Smoak to Triple-A Tacoma after he hit .163 with two home runs and five RBI’s for the club. Smoak was the prize of the Cliff Lee deal, but has been a bust as a rookie this year. He’s hit just .198 on the season. So far for the [...]
Posted in Baseball on Jul 29th, 2010
MLB sources tell Mark Berman of FOX 26 in Houston that the Philadelphia Phillies and Houston Astros have a deal in place for starting pitcher Roy Oswalt. According to the report, they are just waiting for Oswalt to waive his no-trade clause. At this point, the Astros have told Oswalt that the money and players [...]
Posted in Baseball on Jul 11th, 2010
The Texas Rangers were all excited that they got their shiny new prize named Cliff Lee. The stud lefty was 8-3 with the Seattle Mariners with a 2.34 ERA. On Saturday night, he made his debut with the Rangers at home against the Baltimore Orioles. While everyone couldn’t wait for Lee to take the mound, [...]
Posted in Baseball on Jul 9th, 2010
Joel Sherman of the New York Post has been all over this story lately. Now, he is reporting that the Seattle Mariners have agreed on a deal with the Texas Rangers to send them Cliff Lee. Wow. According to the Rotoworld.com posting, Sherman says that the Mariners will get Justin Smoak, reliever Mark Lowe and [...]
Posted in Baseball on Jul 9th, 2010
Joel Sherman of the New York Post is now tweeting that the Seattle Mariners are pulling back on the Cliff Lee deal that would send the stud left hander to the New York Yankees. “#Mariners backing off #Yankees offer, Post has learned. Does not look like #Yankees are in it,” Sherman tweets with appropriate use [...]
Posted in Baseball on Jul 9th, 2010
According to ESPN’s Buster Olney, a trade that would send lefthander Cliff Lee to the New York Yankees is “just about done.” In return, the Yankees are expected to send catching prospect Jesus Montero. “Executive involved in Cliff Lee talks: The Yankees-Mariners deal “is just about done,” he tweets. Montero was recently ranked as the [...]
Posted in Baseball on Jul 8th, 2010
With the Texas Rangers quickly falling out of the Lebron James sweepstakes, they have turned their focus on landing Seattle Mariners pitcher Cliff Lee. And according to a little blurb on Foxsports.com, the Rangers have become the favorite. “One rival general manager believes the Rangers have become the favorite to land Cliff Lee,” Ken Rosenthal writes. One [...]
Posted in Baseball on Jun 28th, 2010
Jeff Fletcher of AOL has confirmed that the St. Louis Cardinals are indeed interested in making a move for Seattle Mariners LHP Cliff Lee. Not exactly sure why, but he says they are. “MLB source confirms @ed_price tweet that #stlcards are interested in C.Lee. Not sure where talks stand. #mariners,” he tweets. We aren’t sure [...]
Posted in Baseball on Jun 26th, 2010
Several baseball executives tell Ken Rosenthal of Foxsports.com that the Seattle Mariners are ready to trade LHP Cliff Lee right now, despite what GM Jack Zduriencik has said recently. “We’re just going to try to win baseball games,” Zduriencik said Friday. “I’m not a fool. But in the same sense, who the heck knows? We’ll [...]
Posted in Baseball on Jun 16th, 2010
A league source tells Jack Curry of YES Network that the Philadelphia Phillies “would love” to get Seattle Mariners LHP Cliff Lee back. “Spoke to baseball official who has regular contact w Phils. He said they are itching to add a starter and would love to get Cliff Lee back,” Curry tweets. We aren’t shocked [...]
Posted in Baseball on Jun 9th, 2010
The Seattle Mariners recently unloaded a heap of minor league crap to the Philadelphia Phillies in exchange for LHP Cliff Lee. Good deal, right? Well, not really. The Mariners still can’t buy a win despite having some excellent pitching. They can’t hit and are in last place in the AL West at 13 games behind [...]
Posted in Baseball on May 1st, 2010
Enjoy your rent-a-player, Seattle. Hopefully, Phillippe Aumont doesn’t amount to much (although he’s been spectacular in the Phillies farm system recently) because it looks like the Seattle Mariners won’t be keeping Cliff Lee beyond this season. His agent, Darek Braunecker, says that he doesn’t foresee a deal getting done that would keep him in the [...]
Posted in Baseball on Apr 26th, 2010
The Mariners will finally get to see their big offseason acquisition play this Friday. After pitching six-shutout innings against the AAA Tacoma Rainiers, Cliff Lee will fly to Kansas City to join the big-league club Monday and then make his first start for the Mariners on Friday against Texas. Lee has been out since early [...]
The Seattle Mariners have put starting pitcher Cliff Lee on the 15-day disabled list with an abdominal strain. Lee has been battling this issue for most of the spring, and it’s not surprising that the Mariners would be careful here. The good news for Seattle is that it’s not shoulder or arm trouble. We’d have [...]
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