Re: Around the Mlb

[Pablets]

Continuo ad aspettare, sperando in un esito positivo per la NL.

[MarcoRVD]

Dopo la disavventura del povero Crisp coi gabbiani pensavo di aver visto tutto.
Ma mi sbagliavo.

Sarà colpa del caldo?

[Sberl]

Peavy fuori un mesetto...problemi caviglia!

[Hobbit83]

Doc.... Problemi all'inguine.
Toronto trema.

[webba2000]

Dopo la disavventura del povero Crisp coi gabbiani pensavo di aver visto tutto.
Ma mi sbagliavo.

Sarà colpa del caldo?

E non avevi ancora visto Castillo 

[MarcoRVD]

E non avevi ancora visto Castillo 

Eh già.
Da ieri ho imparato una severa lezione:
Fatti gli affari tuoi che campi 100 anni

[Pablets]

Non sapevo dove metterlo visto che si parla di International Signings. L'agente di Miguel Angel Sano: "I would say he has a Hanley Ramirez body and the possible upside of an Albert Pujols-type bat."
Commento di MLBTR: "Oh, that's all?" :lol2:

[mattew88]

Quella tra Cards e Indians di questa notte è stata la terza partita più corta (per minuti) della stagione, con 194 lanci (93 Lee, 89 Carpenter e 15 Perez).

[shilton]

Ci sono due squadre che NON si sono mai incontrate? Anche se l'interleague c'è ormai da parecchi anni.

[Eclipse612]

Quella tra Cards e Indians di questa notte è stata la terza partita più corta (per minuti) della stagione, con 194 lanci (93 Lee, 89 Carpenter e 15 Perez).

Infatti la sintesi di Sky non ha nemmeno tagliato un inning!

[Jeremy]

Che sorpresa...

Report: Sosa tested positive in 2003

Sammy Sosa is one of the major league baseball players who tested positive for a banned substance in 2003, the New York Times is reporting, citing lawyers who have knowledge of the drug-testing results from that yearTags: MLB
Report: Sosa Tested Positive In 2003

Sammy Sosa is one of the 104 major league players who tested positive for a performance-enhancing substance in 2003, the New York Times reported, citing lawyers who have knowledge of the drug-testing results from that year.

That year was the first in which Major League Baseball conducted survey tests to see if mandatory, random drug-testing was needed. There were no penalties for a positive result in 2003.

All In The Numbers?

Sammy Sosa is reportedly one of the 104 big league players who tested positive for a performance-enhancing substance in 2003. Here's a look at Sosa's season averages from before that year and after:

1993-03 2004-07*
HR 45.6 23.3
RBIs 119.0 72.3
Runs 103.2 53.7
BA .287 .243
*Did not play in 2006

A lawyer for Sosa, Jay Reisinger, declined comment to the Times. An MLB official likewise declined comment to the newspaper.

"There was always that question mark about 'Did he or didn't he?' and if this report is right, now we know he did," Cubs legend and Hall of Famer Fergie Jenkins told ESPN. "I always thought he was clean and got bigger just with his hard work."

Jenkins added: "I coached Sammy when he was a kid in the '90s and he became a 30-30 [homers and stolen bases] guy. As guys progressed, I guess he was on the bandwagon and used -- they did and so did he. Now it's coming out, who did what, when and where."

The lawyers who have knowledge of the 2003 list results do not know the substance that caused Sosa to test positive, according to the Times. Results from the 2003 surveys were supposed to remain anonymous. But on Feb. 7, Sports Illustrated reported that Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez was one of the 104 who tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs.

Two days later, Rodriguez admitted to having taken steroids while with the Texas Rangers from 2001 to 2003.

Test samples and records were supposed to be destroyed, but union head Donald Fehr said the players' association didn't have enough time to make arrangements after the results became final Nov. 13, 2003.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is considering the fate of the list and test specimens, which were seized by federal agents in April 2004.

ESPNdeportes.com reported in early June that Sosa, 40, was planning on announcing his formal retirement from baseball soon, and would not address allegations of steroid use.

"I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Don't I have the numbers to be inducted?" said Sosa, who presently serves the Dominican government as special ambassador for investment opportunities.

Jenkins thinks otherwise.

"I don't think they [proven users of performance-enhancing drugs] belong in the Hall of Fame," Jenkins said. "The drugs probably enhanced their performances about 20-30 percent. Sammy was in his 30s when he was apparently using and it gave him an edge in homers and RBIs."

Sosa had a total of 609 home runs in his career, including seasons of 66 homers in 1998; 63 in 1999; and 64 in 2001.

He last played in 2007, when he was with the Rangers, a season he called his most fulfilling, with 21 home runs and 92 RBIs in only 114 games.

"I always played with love and responsibility and I assure you that I will not answer nor listen to rumors. If anything ugly comes up in the future, we will confront it immediately, but with all our strength because I will not allow anybody to tarnish what I did in the field," Sosa told ESPNdeportes.com.

Known as the "Caribbean Bambino" after he and Mark McGwire were locked in a home-run race in 1998 -- both ended up breaking Roger Maris' single-season record of 61 -- Sosa expressed sadness for the many Dominican players who are facing difficult moments in their careers, singling out Dodgers outfielder Manny Ramirez, who is serving a 50-game suspension for violating baseball's drug policy.

Information from Willie Weinbaum of the ESPN Enterprise Unit and The Associated Press was used in this report.

[Pablets]

Purtroppo me lo aspettavo...

[Tasco]

Vabbeh qui la cosa sta diventando sempre più ridicola...Si scelgono a caso i giocatori dei quali si pubblica la positività. O tutti o nessuno, indipendentemente se attivi o ritirati, se Yankees o Nationals...così tutto è solo un fracassamento dei cosiddetti 

[Eclipse612]

Sembra chi si stia cercando di dividere il baseball in buoni e cattivi, quando soprattutto negli anni '90 probabilmente c'erano molte più sfumature...

[Andy00]

Ma perchè esce un nome ogni tanto?  

La caccia al record di HR nel 2001 era una corsa tra bombati...come era facile prevedere