MLB has officially reinstated Manny Ramirez from the voluntary retirement list according to ESPN's Buster Olney (Twitter links). Ramirez intends to attempt a comeback next year, but will first need to serve a 50-game suspension for his failed PED test this past season.
Manny, now 39, has been calling teams directly to find employment, though neither the Dodgers or Rays are expected to have much interest in him. There aren't many clubs in need of a DH, plus there are still several DH candidates on the free agent market that come with less baggage. Ramirez will likely have to settle for a non-roster invite to Spring Training.
I hope no one signs him
Typical conversation he will have with GM:
Manny: “Hi this is Manny Ramirez…”
GM hangs up phone.
End scene.
Someone should sign him. He is only coming back to get more drug money.
MAN-RAM IF NO ONE SIGNS YOU YOU CAN PLAY ON MY TEAM THE STADIUM IS ON AN ELECTRON AND THE COMPETITION IS IMAGINARY
BUT ZZZZIPPP HOPES SOMEONE WILL SIGN YOU
You spelled your own name wrong.
Welcome to philly
I sure hope not!
Now the circus begins.
Manny’s walk up music should be that circus theme song, ”
“doot-doot-doodle-oodle oot doot do do”
Please someone sign manny , i want the entertainment!
Rangers.
He can always play in the California Penal League like Charlie Sheen/Rick ‘Wild Thing’ Vaughn did…
Cards put him in the outfield until Allen Craig gets back. Let him wear #5
Except of course for the first 50 games for which he will be suspended.
truth
Probably the best hitter of this generation, if someone will sign him I’d like to watch him play.
Couple of guys named Bonds and Pujols that may disagree, but Manny is (was?) pretty good.
I hear that ARod guy isn’t bad. Junior is wondering why he is getting ignored, too.
HOF guys for sure, but Griffey and A-Rod both have lower OBP AND slugging percentages than Pujols or Bonds. Any argument about who is the best hitter has to at least start with those stats, right?
Career OPS:
Griffey: .907
A-Rod: .953
Pujols: 1.037
Bonds: 1.051
I would still take Junior or ARod in their prime over Manny in his prime. Forget about even comparing Bonds or Pujols to anyone.
Ever heard of a guy named Albert? Heard he’s pretty good.
in any given at bat albert was better. if i needed a man to drive in a run i’d pick manny everytime (i don’t bother with bonds cause teams would walk him with the bases loaded if they had to)
So your argument of why Bonds can’t be listed with Manny or Albert as the greatest hitter of the generation is because teams would walk him with the bases loaded? Strong.
still gets the run you wanted in if teams walk bonds with the bases loaded….jus sayin
Maybe the Angels will sign Manny so I can laugh at them again.
Also Manny, aside from calling up GMs directly, consider creating a sizzle reel of your accomplishments like Barney Stinson in “How I Met Your Mother”.
Performance enhancing drugs law suit-UP!
Why was his suspension cut in half? Does retiring than wanting to play again get you out of your punishment? Bud Selig is lucky he’s only the 2nd biggest joke of a commissioner in professional sports.
Acutally, when you look at the NBA; NHL; and NFL, he is the best. Sad, huh.
MLS FTW!
I think Goodell is the best of the worst. He can at least hide behind the NFL’s insane financial success and parity in the league. His punishments are a slap on the wrist though. I don’t know anything about the NHL, the NBA is just a circus, the lockout should have lasted the entire season to fix it.
Yeah, I thought it was a 100 game suspension, because he’d already had a 50-gamer?
it was 100 games but he decided to retire. now that he’s back its 50 games. idk why
Because the MLBPA wanted MLB to count his “retirement” as fulfilling his suspension and MLB didn’t want to, so they compromised and counted his temporary retirement as half of the suspension.
aint that one japan or chinese team lookin for some offense? nipply ham eaters or somethin?
lololololol nipply ham eaters
After those female growth hormones, I guess he wasn’t retiring, but just taking maternity leave
best comment so far.lol
Manny is forgiven. Pete Rose, not so much. Even though Manny thumbed his nose at MLB by cheating TWICE!!
And for a mere $299, Pete Rose will apologize to you directly.
The same idiots who think the Patriots should re-sgn Randy Moss with be begging Cherrington to go get Manny.
Not to defend the re-sign Randy logic, but at this point, that’s normally a part of a grand scheme which begins with the Pats releasing Chad Chokeostinko, THEN re-signing Moss, the logic being “he can’t be any worse on the field or in the locker room.”
I think it’s safer to say that the idiots who will want Cherington to re-sign Manny are the same idiots who are still miffed that Adrian Beltre was brought in to replace the no-longer-effective-at-all Mike Lowell and who also feel that both Tim Wakefield and Jason Varitek would still be extremely productive members of the Red Sox in 2012 despite multiple year track records that scream otherwise.
woah. easy there killer. if varitek is healthy he’s still worth brining back. i hate how no one acknowledges that the most important thing a catcher does is handle a pitching staff (note that varitek started only 1/3 games and the staff was horrible this year). he is still one of the best receivers in the game. hitting, not so much but you have 8 other guys to do that. and for wakefield…he isn’t good but neither is anyone else they throw out there. at one point i saw craigslist ads for anyone with pitching experience
You must be one of the guys who wanted to release Ellsbury because he is too fragile and also wanted to get rid of Papi because “he’s going to suck in 2011 because he is old and fat and can’t hit lefties”, right?
No, because neither of those things make any sense, much unlike the obvious and steady decline that Tek and Wakefield have displayed and the full collapse that Lowell experienced.
So kids, the lesson learned here is, if you’re stubborn enough to retire for a year rather than serve your sentence (for a second offense of PED use), and you come back a year later, they cut it in half!
So Manny signs with another team this year, retires on Openning Day, reinstates next offseason and he only has to serve a 25 game suspension! Billiant!
Exactly! Soon he’ll only have to serve a half a game
“SO KIDS, THE LESSON IS THAT IF YOU’D LIKE TO CONTINUE PLAYING BASEBALL YOU SHOULD HAVE JUST SERVED THE SUSPENSION IN THE FIRST PLACE BECAUSE 157 GAMES MISSED + AN ADDITIONAL 50 GAMES IS MORE THAN 100 GAMES.”
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Doesn’t matter how many games he missed last season because he was “retired” from the sport. The suspension should still stand at 100 games
Maybe he can go to the Cards to play 1st base……
If hes Latin, the Marlins will sign him.
Nah, I think he needs money for lawyer on his domestic charge.
Baseball has shunned McGwire, Clemens, Bonds …. so if ANY team signs this guy they should all IMMEDIATELY put the three guys I mentioned in the HOF. Can’t have it both ways
McGwire’s entire HOF case is reliant upon a steroid-riddled 5 year peak. Clemens and Bonds don’t have that problem.
WHEN I inject STeROIDS I like to STare at a PiCTURE Of BArry BONdS Fat HEAd For MotiVation! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
-Some dude in Jersey
he hit like 580 homeruns, pretty hard to do that in a 5 year peak…
HOF shunned Mc, he retired when he wanted, well he retired when he was pinch hit for in the playoffs, same when Clemens, he retired after years of playing 1/2 season, remember? Bonds on the other hand, he was black listed or something, collusion comes to mind, he didnt retire, they made him, just like Canseco…
I agree, the great players of the last 30 years should not be banned from the hall because of steriods. Many players that took them were never caught. Before the steriods, there was amphetamine use that acuatually made players hit better by helping them react quicker. When you have only 4 tenths of a second to hit a ball, they were huge. Many HOFers took them and worse. There is no way to say who is on HGH, or not right now.
I think with MLB letting Manny back in, then Pete Rose should be put in the Hall.
add him to the wishlist. mets need to sign him and trade him at the deadline. what’s the worst that can happen? if he sucks he will fit right in. maybe he can play short. i heard he’s an experienced cutoff man
Thats just part of why Manny transcends baseball. He is a ball player but also a showman. Manny is the GOAT Watch his throne.
that sound you hear is the collective of baseball fans not caring, manny.
The Mets should give him a shot
literally
Well Manny gas has come down so your contract offers are gonna too lol
Manny would be welcomed back as a returning hero to the Northcoast.. where it all started. Now playing RF/DH for the Cleveland Indians.. MANNY RAMIREZ !!…
As far as all the vitriole & indignation about being caught using PED’s… 80 % of the players in MLB were users, they just didn’t get a public undressing.. Yep..that’s right, 32 of the 40 players on each and every team’s 40 man roster were using some form of PED’s… a number that cannot be refuted…
Indians just need to gitterdone !!…
Care to provide some actual facts about these irrefutable numbers?
Just admit it, made up facts cant be refudiated.
Manny for LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Marlins should sign him…then he could really teach Logan Morrison how to piss of management..
Obviously, the Marlins should lock him up for that Latin market which Albert would have enhanced. Give him the deal the Dodgers gave him– 2 years 40 mill.
Go away manny……forever…..see “Brett Favre”…..
Sorry Favre loved the game and was occasionally too confident in his abilities. Favre is the man!!!! GET SOME!!!!!. Im out.
The pirates should sign him seems where everyone is going to have last chance seasons
“I can’t wait to sign him!”
– Literally Nobody
“I can’t wait to sign him!”
– Literally Nobody
Manny Ramirez is a mad pimpin, baller, national treasure, high stepping, mac daddy, living legend, take no prisoners, soul skating (Brink Reference), Gatorade drinking, Glowing baseball GOD!!!!! He is like the kama sutra with the power of the hulk at a Dave Mathews Concert he is Allllright. Manny is the King, favorite player ever. I know must of you don’t agree buuuuut I don’t care. ONE MAN FOR MANNY! HE DID IT HIS WAY! RUN GET THE MONEY DOLLA DOLLA BILL YO! MAKE MONEY MAKE MONEY MONEY MONEY!!! Im out.
Why didn’t he just serve the suspension before retiring last year? Is there a logical answer? Thanks
Manny should go back to an AL team like the Rays or Jays. He could help boost their line ups without costing alot of money.
Ok, this is NOT fair. Manny, being the baby that he is, retires after being caught taking PED’s for the second time instead of serving his 100 game suspension. Now he decides to come back to the MLB and his sentence is reduced?? WHY?? It was HIS choice to retire, not MLB’s. If he wants to be reinstated and play again, he should serve his FULL suspension.
Maybe this is MLB’s way of saying, yeah, get caught taking PED’s, willingly retire for a season and you can come back with a reduced sentence. :S
It’s disgusting that the MLB warned Manny a year ago that if he were ever reinstated, he’d have to serve the full 100 game suspension and that the MLB would continue the PED investigation, ultimately revealing which drug he tested positive for, and now they’re like, “Don’t worry Manny – all is forgiven. You just have to serve 50 games, no questions asked.” What kind of precedent does that set? Perhaps Ryan Braun should retire now, come back in a year and serve only a 25 game suspension… Absolutely abhorrent determination by the MLB.