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Odds & Ends: Bonifacio, Jimenez, Darvish

By Tim Dierkes [April 17, 2009 at 1:32pm CST]

Links for Friday...

Royals third baseman Alex Gordon is out 10-12 weeks due to hip surgery. Mark Teahen will slide over to take his place.
Ken Rosenthal examines the Indians.
I did a Q&A with But The Game Is On.
Chico Harlan of the Washington Post gets into the Emilio Bonifacio trade.
ESPN's Jorge Arangure Jr. writes about how the Yankees' signing of D'Angelo Jimenez changed everything.
Patrick Newman of NPB Tracker has a Yu Darvish velocity chart.
The Big Lead talked to Bernie Miklasz of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Paul DePodesta explains the Padres' decision to expose Travis Denker to waivers.

Comments

I love it that you can ask an executive of an MLB team and get an answer. And the question he was answering was mine.

Are there any other teams besides the Padres that have a FO guy blogging?

Thanks Paul for answering my questions this season.

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Posted by: Websoulsurfer | April 17, 2009 at 05:22 PM

Darvish's velocity chart is insane. The 30 MPH difference between his heater and his curve has to make hitters nauseous.

Posted by: AA | April 17, 2009 at 05:58 PM

What are the stipulations for Japanese players to play in the majors exactly?

I heard they have to play 10 years there or something but MLB teams can pay to negotiate with them before that?

Can someone clear that up because I would see it as a great idea for a MLB team to just offer Darvish's Japanese team his whole remaining salary plus another 30-40 million just to talk to him.

Isnt that what the Red Sox did with Dice-K?

Posted by: xethicx | April 18, 2009 at 11:47 AM

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