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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Seattle Mariners’ pitcher Cliff Lee was given a five-game suspension a couple weeks ago for throwing at the head of Arizona Diamondbacks catcher Chris Snyder. He is in the appeals process, but his hearing was just postponed because all parties could not be in attendance. “It’s just one of those things you have to deal [...]
Ed Price of AOL Fanhouse says that the Seattle Mariners are looking for some pitching help since newly acquired Cliff Lee has an abdominal strain. This is bad news because the strain was only supposed to cause him to miss one start. Would they be looking to add a pitcher if they only had to [...]
Seattle Mariners pitcher Cliff Lee is still feeling soreness in strained lower abdomen after a short throwing session in Peoria, AZ, according to the Seattle Post Intelligencer. “I still feel it,” Lee said, according to The Associated Press. Although, he does say that the injury is getting better. “It doesn’t look very good,” he told [...]
It’s been a rough spring for the newest Seattle Mariner Cliff Lee. First he gets suspended for five games after throwing at Chris Snyder’s head, and now he has an abdominal strain that could bump him from his first start. Larry Stoner says it’s not too serious, however. “Mystery solved: Cliff Lee has a right [...]
Maybe the Philadelphia Phillies knew what they were doing when they shipped Cliff Lee out of town. Ok, not really. But the Mariners’ Lee did get suspended for the first five games of the season after he threw at Arizona Diamondbacks catcher Chris Snyder on Monday. Of course, Lee can appeal, but we don’t see [...]
Seattle Mariners stud Cliff Lee underwent a minor procedure on his foot, according to some dude on Twitter that gets press releases from the Mariners. “Cliff Lee had successful surgery to remove a loose spur in his left foot, according to M’s release,” Ryan Divish tweets. Lee pitched deep into the 2009 season and there [...]
According to SI.com, the Philadelphia Phillies have agreed to a deal to acquire pitcher Roy Halladay from the Toronto Blue Jays. According to reports, the Phillies would send stud left-hander Cliff Lee to the Seattle Mariners and the Mariners send the prospects to Toronto. According to reports, the Phillies are trying to lock up Halladay [...]
In a move that will shock no one, the Philadelphia Phillies have announced that they have picked up the $9 million option for Cliff Lee for 2010. Considering he is worth probably $20 million or so, it’s quite a bargain. They also acknowledge that they are considering extending him beyond next season. “That said, we [...]
With all the talk about how dominant New York Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia is, everyone forgot about a little guy known as Cliff Lee. Lee went the distance and only gave up one unearned run (Jimmy Rollins pulled a Chase Utley and airmailed it into the dugout once the game was out of reach) through [...]
Philadelphia Phillies manager Charlie Manuel has announced that Cliff Lee will be his starter for Game 1 of the World Series Wednesday. This comes a complete surprise to everyone who hasn’t watched the playoffs so far and Cole Hamels in particular. So far in the postseason, Lee has a 2-0 record, 0.74 ERA and 0.70 [...]
Charlie Manuel said that Cliff Lee will be the Phillies starter in Game 3 of the NLCS. Cole Hamels starts tonight in Game 1 and Pedro Martinez will face the Dodgers in Game 2. OTR is not thrilled that Pedro is starting Game 2. Lee has been shutting it down in his last two starts [...]
Cliff Lee was one strike away from a complete game shutout on Wednesday as the Phillies knocked off the Colorado Rockies 5-1 at Citizens Bank Park. Instead, he gave up a double that scored a run for what was the only blemish on his other wise brilliant game. “I took a little second to look [...]
Philadelphia Phillies manager Charlie Manuel just announced that Cliff Lee will be the team’s Game 1 starter for the Phillies against the Colorado Rockies tomorrow afternoon at Citizens Bank Park. After setting the world on fire when he first came to Philadelphia, Lee has cooled off considerably. Who knows that the Phils will get when [...]
OTR took a break from typing genius posts from their Mac Pro with dual, dual 2.66 Ghz processors to actually go see one of these sporting events that we keep hearing so damn much about. That’s right, OTR’s Micah Warren (me….don’t know why I’m typing my name in the third person) was able to finagle, [...]
Sources tell the Philadelphia Inquirer that the Philadelphia Phillies have agreed to send Carlos Carassco, Jason Donald, Jason Knapp and catcher Lou Marson and outfielder Ben Francisco to the Cleveland Indians for Cliff Lee and Ben Francisco. Cliff Lee, 30, is the reigning AL Cy Young award winner and has a 3.14 ERA this season. [...]
Some curious developments regarding a potential Philadelphia Phillies trade for Cleveland Indians lefthander Cliff Lee. Carlos Carrasco has been scratched from his scheduled start this morning against Columbus, and there is no indication that he is hurt. Catcher Lou Marson and shortstop Jason Donald are also out of the Lehigh Ironpigs lineup. Hmmmm…. However, Donald [...]
