Akinori Iwamura

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• Free Agent Frenzy

  
  Raise the Jolly Roger — Authority: 125
  Thanksgiving weekend wasn’t completely quiet as far as Pirates news goes, with a rumor here and a rumor there as the hot stove starts to heat up. Names that have been linked to the Bucs: Rick Ankiel, Hank Blalock , and Mike Gonzalez . Now that the addition of Akinori Iwamura has filled the hole at second base, ...
  3 days ago

• Morning links: A stove rekindled

  
  PBC Blog — Authority: 574
  By Dejan Kovacevic | 12:40 a.m. Friday Hey, who turned on the lights? Hope everyone had a terrific Thanksgiving, as well as all the other time that lapsed so quickly since the final out in Cincinnati. From a week in Mexico to a drive to Niagara Falls to simply teaching the kids some street hockey in the driveway ...
  4 days ago

• Pirates will be quiet for sometime as free agency is under way

  
  Inside Pittsburgh Sports — Authority: 148
  Ownership wants payroll under $40 million Photo: David Hague - Inside Pittsburgh Sports. The Pittsburgh Pirates have $24 million committed to salaries for the 2010 season with the payroll expected to rise to $30-$32 million after arbitration raises. After dealing away a number of high priced veterans, Pittsburgh ...
  1 week ago

• Footprints in the Snow: Pirates

  
  Back Porch FanHouse — Authority: 557
  by Pat Lackey Filed under: Pirates , NL Central Footprints in the Snow is FanHouses look at the paths to be forged by MLB teams this winter as they look ahead to 2010. The Pittburgh Pirates wrapped up their record 17th consecutive losing season last month by avoiding 100 losses with a rain delay. During ...
  2 weeks ago

• Igarashi testing MLB waters

  
  ??: The Tokyo Yakult Swallows — Authority: 104
  It was reported that Ryota Igarashi, long-time set-up and closer out of the Tokyo bullpen, will be spending the winter training in the United States as he works through the process of signing with a team there.A couple of teams have apparentlyalready shown interest in the hard throwing right-handed pitcher: the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Odds & Ends: Lackey, Upton, De La Rosa, Wood

  
  MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com — Authority: 730
  Some more links to check out as you celebrate the end of the work week... MLB.coms Alden Gonzalez confirms that the Red Sox did indeed meet with John Lackey s agent. This morning we learned that Boston expressed preliminary interest in the free agent hurler. ESPNs Buster Olney tweets that the Rangers asked ...
  2 weeks ago

• Interest for Igarashi

  
  NPB Tracker — Authority: 600
  The market for Ryota Igarashi is showing it’s first signs of life. Sanspo has quotes from a couple of key figures … Pirates GM Neil Huntington: “In acquiring (Akinori) Iwamura , we opened the door to getting Japanese players. We gave up a middle reliever to get Iwamura, so he [Igarashi] is a player we have ...
  2 weeks ago

• Conditioning camp, Day 2: Young mum on managements call at second

  
  PBC Blog — Authority: 574
  By Dejan Kovacevic | 1:32 p.m. Wednesday From the second day of the Pirates conditioning camp this morning at PNC Park ... > Delwyn Young, almost invariably outspoken, has opted to stay mum on the team abandoning him at second base in favor of newly acquired Akinori Iwamura. "It is what it is," Young said. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Twins Talk

  
  Down with Goldy — Authority: 469
  Since we unfortunately have a night off from college buckets, and at least one reader is clamoring for Twins roster speculation as seen by the bordering on obsessive comment left earlier today, Ill go ahead and take a look at what some of the rumors out there surrounding the Twins this offseason. In no particular ...
  3 weeks ago

• Conditioning camp, Day 1: Pirates offered Capps to Brewers in trade

  
  PBC Blog — Authority: 574
  By Dejan Kovacevic | 12:50 p.m. Tuesday The Pirates are holding the first of two offseason conditioning camps this week at PNC Park, today and tomorrow. From the session this morning ... > Closer Matt Capps father, Mike, died unexpectedly -- at age 61 -- Oct. 22 in Capps native Douglasville, Ga., the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Hot Stove Update: Iwamura, Teahen, Hermida, Hardy and More!

  
  Advanced Fantasy Baseball — Authority: 411
  I have been pretty sick this week which the reason for the lack of posts. I have had the flu, combined with a series of migraine headaches that make looking at the computer for more than a few minutes absolute agony. I have the team retrospectives for the Baltimore Orioles, Boston Red Sox, and New York Yankees almost ...
  3 weeks ago

• Let’s get to know Akinori Iwamura

  
  Raise the Jolly Roger — Authority: 125
  Regardless of whether or not you think bringing him in was a good idea, I have a feeling that Akinori Iwamura is going to make quite the impression on Pirates fans over the next year, half year, or next few years. “Aki” should be both  productive and exciting, no matter how long he wears a Pittsburgh uniform. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Rotoprofessor’s Fantasy Impact: Early Hot Stove Deals

  
  LestersLegends.com — Authority: 143
  Written by Eric Stashin the Rotoprofessor The World Series is over (congratulations Yankees), so let the Hot Stove Season begin (which we will be following closely at Rotoprofessor)!  It hasn’t taken long for things to seemingly get into high gear, as the Chicago Sun-Times (click here for ...
  3 weeks ago

• [THE HANGOVER] The One Where We Discuss Another Market Inefficiency, The Rays Tuesday Win And Minor League Awards

  
  Rays Index — Authority: 541
  From the “Can’t make this up” pile, Marc Topkin drops this little nugget … …the Rays decided to keep Uchibori, Iwamura’s interpreter the past two years, and gave him a job as a scout in his native Japan, Korea and Taiwan. Just another move proving that the Rays are trendsetters and super-sleuths at ...
  3 weeks ago

• Fantasy Baseball Effects Of The Trading Season Kickoff

  
  Fantasy Baseball Dugout — Authority: 417
  With the World Series coming to an end (congrats to the Yanks), the trading season has officially kicked off. Get ready to follow new players to new locations for the next four months.By the way, there’s only 104 days left until the Tampa Bay Rays pitchers and catchers report to Florida for spring training to [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Iwamura Interested In Exploring Long-Term Deal

  
  MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com — Authority: 730
  Just two days after being acquired from Tampa Bay, Akinori Iwamura said hes "interested" in exploring a long-term deal with the Pirates during a conference call, according to Dejan Kovacevic of The Pittsburgh Post Gazette . "Im definitely interested in the long term, but I first have to do what I can do. Well see ...
  3 weeks ago

• [THE HANGOVER] The One Where We Discuss How A Salary Dump Will Apparently Change Baseball Forever…Or Not

  
  Rays Index — Authority: 541
  Andrew Friedman has made some great moves in his tenure with the Rays, but somebody needs to explain to us what is so amazing about a trade that is essentially a salary dump. The following is a made-up quote, but essentially sums up about 20 different blog posts we have read in reference to the trade that sent ...
  3 weeks ago

• Report: Padilla gunshot wound not self-inflicted

  
  Angels blog — Authority: 554
  Contrary to earlier reports, Dodgers pitcher Vicente Padilla did not accidentally shoot himself during target practice in Nicaragua.The Associated Press is now reporting Padilla was wounded by his shooting instructor, a former police captain.The instructor, handed a jammed weapon by Padilla, accidentally shot himself ...
  3 weeks ago

• Blowback

  
  The Green Weenie — Authority: 132
  While Bucco fans debate the Aki Iwamura deal, heres what the world outside of Pittsburgh thinks of the trade: -- Andrew Friedman, Rays VP of baseball operations from the Tampa Bay website: "Once it was clear to us that we were not going to pick up his (Iwamuras) option, we went out and tried to find a match. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Odds & Ends: Lilly, Iwamura, Beckett, Marlins, Dunn, Cubs

  
  MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com — Authority: 730
  Heres some links to check out while waiting for what might be the final start in the great careers of Andy Pettitte and Pedro Martinez ... Ted Lilly had arthroscopic surgery on his left shoulder today, and the Cubs expect to have him back in their rotation "within the month of April," according to MLB.coms ...
  3 weeks ago

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