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Red Sox DFA Jonathan Van Every
According to Amalie Benjamin of the Boston Globe, the Red Sox have designated outfielder Jonathan Van Every for assignment.
Van Every was projected to miss the rest of the season after undergoing knee surgery in late June. He had a .364 batting average, one home run and three RBI in 11 at-bats with the Red Sox during a short stint in the big leagues earlier this season. The club will hope he makes it through the DFA process and returns to his role at Triple-A Pawtucket.
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If the Pirates or Astros DFA'd a AAA player, would it be posted on MLBTR?
this coming from a Red Sox fan.
Posted by: Josh Amaral | July 08, 2009 at 07:25 PM
Yes, it would.
Posted by: Drew Silva | July 08, 2009 at 07:37 PM
Yeah, everyone that is DFA'd has been posted recently.
Van Every has proven that he can play at the big league level. I hope we get to keep him.
Posted by: soxfan93 | July 08, 2009 at 07:51 PM
Agreed,this site dose a good job of remaining unbiased in its coverage and does not give too much to the big markets, unlike the BOS/NY channnel... I'm sorry thats spelled E.S.P.N.
Posted by: stbailey | July 08, 2009 at 08:11 PM
Just checking. I've always known MLBTR to be a fair and balanced type site.
stbailey:
ESPN does provide more coverage to east coast teams for a few reasons.
1) ESPN is located in Bristol, CT, making it easiest for them to cover sports in the northeast.
2) Boston and New York are two major markets. LA and Chicago are others and an expansion in these areas is apparent. They've started to host some SportsCenter from a studio in LA and have launched a website for Chicago sports alone.
3) The time zone issue. Who's watching the show when it's on? East coast viewers.
Posted by: Josh Amaral | July 08, 2009 at 08:16 PM
I think he will be snatched up by someone. Probably a NL team. He could be extremely effective as a NL teams 4th outfielder.
Posted by: yanks09 | July 08, 2009 at 08:42 PM
In addition to his hitting, Van Every boasts a 0.00 ERA in the majors.
Posted by: Little Bear | July 08, 2009 at 08:44 PM
Ok so the guy gets DFA'd with stats like that and yet the Red Sox are looking at Spilborghs?
Posted by: xethicx | July 08, 2009 at 09:04 PM
1) ESPN is located in Bristol, CT, making it easiest for them to cover sports in the northeast.
Yes, it is quite difficult getting information from the West coast since it is a 6 day travel for the Pony Express. If only there was a way information could be delivered quicker so ESPN was no longer limited to coverage in a 300 mile radius of their office.
“2) Boston and New York are two major markets. LA and Chicago are others and an expansion in these areas is apparent. They've started to host some SportsCenter from a studio in LA and have launched a website for Chicago sports alone.”
Where yes, they are major markets, that doesn’t mean they are the only places sports news happen. And where they are located has nothing to do with what they can cover.
“3) The time zone issue. Who's watching the show when it's on? East coast viewers.”
You do realize ESPN is a station, not a show, don’t you? In fact, it is like 3 stations. And they all happen to be stations that are on 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. People from all over the country watch all three, all the time.
Why is anyone still watching ESPN anyway though? Its 70% trash, 20% commercials and 10% info. And of that 10% info, 50% of it will be about Brett Farve, the Cowboys, The Yankees or RedSox, Mr.James and Kobe, or whatever they are trying to act like is the “big story” of the day.
Posted by: SuzysMan | July 08, 2009 at 09:08 PM
"Ok so the guy gets DFA'd with stats like that and yet the Red Sox are looking at Spilborghs?"
A guy like that is on the 40 man roster and will be on the DL for the rest of the year. Sox are hoping to put Van Every off the 40 man roster and keep him in the minors.
Posted by: start_wearing_purple | July 08, 2009 at 09:16 PM
Josh,
Another contributing factor is where they acquire their writers, which is primarily from the local or national media based in the NY and Bos market, and to a lesser extent Chicago. Don't get me wrong I love ESPN, I do, but there coverage does favor certain teams and while I understand the causes they still deserve to be criticized for it. But this is a Van Every post and I apologize for leading the discussion away from that.
Posted by: stbailey | July 08, 2009 at 09:16 PM
VanEvery was one of the more effective retread AAAA type players, or at least moreso than some others they have used the last few seasons and even was called in for an emergency game in relief.
He is one of the very few that was hoping would be back next year on the PawSox roster that is of any use.
Posted by: johns | July 08, 2009 at 09:29 PM
suzysman, way to even acknowledge the comment that ESPN is broadcasting live sportscenters from LA now every morning and the fact that there is an espnchicago.com and your final comment about favre, the cowboys, yankees/sox, lebron, kobe disregards your previous points. those topics pretty much cover every region of the country.
Posted by: Roy Hobbs | July 08, 2009 at 10:20 PM
Seems like Sox made an error in judgement on this. If he's done for the year, they should've just put him on the 60 Day DL which takes him off the 40-man roster. Theo could lose a decent player over this.
Posted by: retiremikes31 | July 08, 2009 at 10:29 PM
Roy Hobbs,
Broadcasting from different area's doesnt change what they choose to cover. A website specifically created to cover a specific topic will of course cover that topic, but a website was never the conversation. And no where did I say they only cover solely regional topics, that is what he is attempting to explain them doing (and my reply to #1 was solely sarcasm) - I said they basically only cover the select few topics I mentioned. But if anything, the topics I stated they cover proves his being incorrect with his explanations as to why they get so close to only covering Boston/NewYork baseball (since all his explanations were based off their regional location, but their 6 or few perfected topic choices are not specific to NY/Bos/EastCoast).
So not sure what you intended your point to be, but think you may have gotten lost along the trail somewhere.
Posted by: SuzysMan | July 08, 2009 at 10:40 PM
1) ESPN is located in Bristol, CT, making it easiest for them to cover sports in the northeast.
Yes, it is quite difficult getting information from the West coast since it is a 6 day travel for the Pony Express. If only there was a way information could be delivered quicker so ESPN was no longer limited to coverage in a 300 mile radius of their office.
“2) Boston and New York are two major markets. LA and Chicago are others and an expansion in these areas is apparent. They've started to host some SportsCenter from a studio in LA and have launched a website for Chicago sports alone.”
Where yes, they are major markets, that doesn’t mean they are the only places sports news happen. And where they are located has nothing to do with what they can cover.
“3) The time zone issue. Who's watching the show when it's on? East coast viewers.”
You do realize ESPN is a station, not a show, don’t you? In fact, it is like 3 stations. And they all happen to be stations that are on 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. People from all over the country watch all three, all the time.
Why is anyone still watching ESPN anyway though? Its 70% trash, 20% commercials and 10% info. And of that 10% info, 50% of it will be about Brett Farve, the Cowboys, The Yankees or RedSox, Mr.James and Kobe, or whatever they are trying to act like is the “big story” of the day.
Posted by: SuzysMan | July 08, 2009 at 09:08 PM
you forgot Patriots and Celtics...
but I do think they are making more of an effort to spread across the country.
Posted by: PS314 | July 09, 2009 at 08:56 AM
"Seems like Sox made an error in judgement on this. If he's done for the year, they should've just put him on the 60 Day DL which takes him off the 40-man roster. Theo could lose a decent player over this."
The 60 day list is very short. They may already be maxed out. Or may be saving a place for Dice-K.
Posted by: Little Bear | July 09, 2009 at 09:38 AM
"you forgot Patriots and Celtics..."
OMG, how can I forget those two?
But it is sad, it really is. I turn on 1st take and see an interview with a Cowboy (surprise surprise) and we have 5-10 mins on "the Cowboys without T.O.) Then we have an interview with a Ram and the Michael Phelps meets from yesterday before I see the BigPapi HR as the forth down conversation or whatever, and I see the poll of the day is "how bad do you want to see James dunked on" to which the answer was like 45% very much and 28% dont care. One of the people actually said "who are these people that dont care?" as if were nuts when we dont care about their topic choices.
I miss the old ESPN where it was more news and less gibberish about whatever they think the stories are. Growing up watching ESPN we could generally put it on and see highlights and information about all our teams, it was great. Now we just see a select few teams they focus on crammed down our throat and filler up the rear.
If I want better baseball coverage, I can switch to the MLB Network and watch the replay of the 81 all-star game they are showing. The info bar simultaneously running on the bottom of the screen will give me more news then ESPN will.
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Posted by: SuzysMan | July 09, 2009 at 11:28 AM
Van Every little thing he does is magic - he also has a scoreless inning pitched this season.
Posted by: yuppiescum | July 09, 2009 at 03:33 PM
retiremikes31 took the words right out of my mouth. Recalling him and placing him on the 60-Day DL would have eliminated the risk of losing him through a waiver claim.
Also, Little Bear, are you sure the 60-Day DL list is short? I see transaction archives from BBAmerica that list a number of minor leaguers from multiple organizations being placed on the 60-Day DL constantly.
Posted by: wesmantooth87 | July 09, 2009 at 03:40 PM