He appeared in nine June games, hitting. The veteran infielder did play in seven minor league games for Kansas City this season, ending his career with an 0-for-2 outing for Double-A Northwest Arkansas. Rafael Furcal has retired. Solid career that was too pocked by injuries ever to become special. And when he goes shopping, forget Target.
He should go to his own store -- Bob's-eye. You've got a state named after Joe Montana, so why not Abreu City? He can start his own bat company, grow his own trees. Anybody can buy that stuff. Now he's got to think on a higher level. Rookie of the week Those of us on the outside don't understand the challenges of being a big-league manager for the first time.
Fortunately, we have new Twins manager Ron Gardenhire to fill us in. After his first day running a spring-training camp Monday, Gardenhire said the toughest part was acting managerial.
So I decided I should mostly walk around the field. I wasn't going to stand around the cage and watch every guy swing at every pitch, saying, 'Oooh, good swing,' or, 'bad swing. But Gardenhire made it through the day, returned to his office and opened a package on his desk. As he was tossing away the shipping label, he noticed something. The guy pictured on the front wasn't him. It was his teammate, Greg Colbrunn. And that would be bad enough, but Colbrunn hits right-handed, while Counsell hits left-handed.
At least the stats on the back were Counsell's. Counsell immediately called Colbrunn, who replied: "It's a complete insult, having my picture with your stats on the back of the card. Given his Tigers bloodlines, he naturally attracted more attention in the Tigers' camp, where he hit eight batting-practice home runs.
Asked if his dad has been throwing him batting practice, Prince quipped: "No, he's too lazy for that. And recalling those good old days when he used to hang out in the Tigers' clubhouse as a kid and once body-slammed Tony Phillips, Prince told Tigers beat man Danny Knobler, of Booth Newspapers: "I think I weighed as much as Tony when I was 5.
Pop culture of the week You might recall that despite their collection of Gold Glovers, catching and calling for pop-ups in Yankee Stadium last fall wasn't exactly the Diamondbacks' highlight of the postseason. So on Thursday, manager Bob Brenly scheduled a drill on the lost art of calling for pop-ups. Unfortunately, he scheduled it on a field where all the pop-ups seemed to drift right into the blazing sun, on a morning when there wasn't a cloud from Tucson to Tucumcari.
I'm sorry, but that was hilarious. There's a lot of Gold Glovers out there But it was good for comic relief. Spring injury of the week Rangers outfielder Ryan Ludwick broke out in hives the other day after lying on the grass, doing his conditioning exercises. He wound up in the hospital for a shot -- after having a reaction either to fertilizer, weed killer or his first spring in exotic Port Charlotte, Fla.
Useless Information Dept. According to figures obtained from a Feb. And more than three-fourths of them are from either the Dominican Republic or Venezuela. Of the 3, players from outside U.
There's a huge drop to the next-closest sources of talent -- Puerto Rico five percent, or and Mexico four percent, or Only 26 players are from Cuba, but half of them 13 are currently on major-league rosters. Now that Turk Wendell has switched from No. But thanks to the Yankees, we pulled it off. So here goes:. Right end: No. Right tackle: No. Nose guard: No. Left tackle: No. Left end: No. And those perennial champs, the Reds, won it again.
When we examine team stats, it's baseball tradition to look at them by league. Skip to main content Skip to navigation. Three-time All-Star Furcal retires from baseball. Kansas City Royals.
Atlanta Braves. Brewers hire two hitting coaches to assist offense. On March 31, the Braves released the year-old Guillen, clinch a spot on the Opening Day roster for Furcal, whom they believed was merely 19 years old.
He went 2-for-4 in a Braves loss, singling off Rolando Arrojo in the sixth inning for his first major-league hit. Furcal hit. Conventional wisdom holds that the birthday of any player born south of Florida is an estimate. Veras suffered a torn ACL in a rundown on July 13 vs.
Baltimore, not only handing Furcal the full-time second base position, but the leadoff spot as well. He took the job and ran with it, posting a.
Furcal battled the flu during the postseason and went just 1-for during the three-game National League Division Series. The Braves were swept by the St. Louis Cardinals , failing to at least reach the League Championship Series for the first time since During that series, Furcal continued to field questions about his age. He insisted he was just 20 years old, having celebrated his birthday on Aug.
He won the award rather easily, receiving 25 of 32 first-place votes Ankiel got six, while Mets outfielder Jay Payton got the other one. Weiss retired after the season, leaving the shortstop position to Furcal on a permanent basis. The world changed during that season, as the terrorist attacks of Sept. Falsifying biographical information would become much more difficult, and consequently a number of foreign-born Major League Baseball Players saw their listed ages suddenly change.
I wanted to play. So was it really a problem for baseball?
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