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      Is Jake Peavy done for the year?

      July 8, 2010 /
      June 30, 2010: Starting pitcher Jake Peavy of the Chicago White Sox delivers a pitch during a game against the Kansas City Royals at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri. The Royals won 7-6.

      On July 31 of last year, the White Sox thought that they had acquired the piece that would get them back to the World Series. They sent four prospects (Clayton Richard, Aaron Preda, Adam Russell and Dexter Carter) to San Diego for ace Jake Peavy, whom they thought was worth the compensation even though he was an injury risk.

      But that risk just became a reality.

      The Sox placed Peavy on the 15-day disabled list with a detached right latissimus muscle. The Chicago Sun Times reports that he’ll see the renowned Dr. James Andrews over the All-Star break and that he could miss the rest of the season.

      The injury is obviously a huge blow for the White Sox, who currently sit just one game back of the Tigers in the AL Central. Peavy certainly hasn’t been his dominant self this season (7-6, 4.63 ERA, 1.23 WHIP, 93 strikeouts), but don’t forget he missed virtually all of 2009 with an ankle injury and his ERA number was likely to drop as he got more familiar with the American League.

      The other frightening aspect of this injury is that Peavy’s career could be done. He has a detached muscle in his back; it’s not like he jammed his finger. He’ll be in good hands with Dr. Andrews, but you never know how a player will respond to an injury like this once he’s ready to get back on the field again.

      If the worst thing that happens is he misses the rest of the season, then the Sox should consider themselves fortunate.

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      Fan falls from second deck at Rangers game, but is doing okay

      July 7, 2010 /

      During Nelson Cruz’s at bat in the fifth inning of the Rangers-Indians game on Tuesday night, a 25-year-old fan fell 30 feet from the second deck of Rangers Ballpark in Arlington as he tried to reach for a foul ball. The man was immediately strapped to a stretcher and taken to a Dallas hospital, where he remains responsive.

      From the Dallas News:

      Nelson Cruz was batting with two outs against Justin Masterson when he lofted a foul ball down the first-base line. The ball sailed some three rows aboveMorris’ head and caromed back toward the field of play.

      He lost his balance as he reached for the ball. He appeared to land on his right side as he came down on a couple seated in section 35, directly below his seat. On his way down, he also struck a man in the shoulder, and he hit a boy in the face with his shoe.
      They were all treated at a first aid station at the stadium, Ryan said, and stayed for the rest of the game.
      Emergency personnel was quick to respond and had removed the man within 10 minutes. Four other fans who were injured by his fall were treated at the first-aid station in the ballpark and were not transported to the hospital.
      The game was stopped for 16 minutes, and several players on the field looked shaken.

      Here’s a live video of the on-field reaction by the fans and players. While it doesn’t show the man falling, it’s still terrifying to listen to the announcer and watch the reaction of people in the stadium.

      External Sports, MLB, Video

      Security at Angel Stadium is really tight

      July 6, 2010 /

      Check out this video of a brawl that went down in the stands at Angel Stadium on July 3.

      And be sure to watch the security guys in the yellow shirts do nothing.

      Granted, maybe they’re told to call for back up before interacting with the brawlers, but isn’t the point of security at games to keep the peace? There were 15 punches thrown in that fight before the security guards even moved into position to stop it. And considering kids and everyone were probably watching, you’d think that they would have wanted to stop the brawl before it escalated to the point it did.

      On a related topic, kudos to the little guy for taking on a guy three times his size. He had to be drunk out of his mind but still, the dude has some big stones.

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      Giants’ Sandoval, Renteria skip haunted hotel

      July 6, 2010 /

      When playing in Milwaukee, most professional baseball and basketball players stay in the historical Pfister Hotel…except for the Giants’ Pablo Sandoval and Edgar Renteria, who say it scares the beejesus out of them.

      From the Sacramento Bee:

      While the rest of the traveling party is staying at the historic – and reputedly haunted – Pfister Hotel, Edgar Renteria and Pablo Sandoval requested rooms down the street at the Intercontinental. Sandoval got spooked last season. Renteria found the experience more leery than eerie, too.

      “I slept like a baby last night,” Renteria said.

      Some have complained about hearing weird noises while staying at the Pfister and at least one player reportedly sleeps with a bat when his team travels to Milwaukee. Brendan Ryan of the Cardinals also said that he saw “a moving light that kind of passed through the room” on one occasion.

      I for one don’t believe in ghosts, but if I were a professional ball player, I might do the same thing Sandoval and Renteria did and stay somewhere else. I wouldn’t want to go 0-for-4 with three strikeouts because I was up all night talking to dead great, great grandmother. C.R.E.E.P.Y.

      Of course, staying at another hotel certainly didn’t help Renteria’s game. He came off the bench in the seventh inning of the Giants’ win over the Brewers on Monday to lay down a bunt and instead popped up two attempts. The first one went foul, while the second wound up in Milwaukee catcher Jonathan Lucroy’s mitt.

      External Sports, MLB

      Report: Twins offer M’s two prospects for Lee

      July 6, 2010 /

      Cliff Lee

      According to Jeff Fletcher of AOL Fanhouse, the Twins have offered the Mariners prospects Aaron Hicks and Wilson Ramos for left-hander Cliff Lee, although the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that the two clubs aren’t close to striking a deal.

      At first glance, it appears that the Twins are offering too much. Hicks was selected with the 14th overall pick in the 2008 First-Year Player Draft and has a .792 OPS over three years in the minors. Ramos, although blocked by Joe Mauer at the big league level, has a .281 average over five seasons in the minors and reportedly has decent pop.

      If Fletcher’s report is true, then the Mariners would have a hard time rejecting the Twins’ offer. At 34-48 and currently sitting in last place in the AL West, Seattle is out of contention and is desperate for young bats. Lee also becomes a free agent at the end of the year and the M’s aren’t expected to retain him with a long-term contract so they have to get something for him at this year’s trade deadline or be out of luck.

      That said, the Mariners are going to take their time because they’ll have plenty of suitors for Lee. This would be one hell of an offer, but one would think that they would wait until closer to the deadline to move him in hopes that a desperate team overpays for his services.

      Besides, rumors like this are usually denied about 34 seconds after I get the post up, which really, really makes me happy.

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