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Minor league team offering ticket package centered around Wil Myers

The Durham Bulls, AAA affiliate of the Tampa Bay Rays, has already built a ticket sales promotion around the Rays new acquisition, top prospect Wil Myers. The Bulls are offering a three-game ticket plan, called the "Wil He Or Won't He?" plan that gives fans tickets to three games (Opening Night, July 4th, Fan Appreciation […]

Dugout Digest – kaboom

And just like that, the offseason powder keg exploded. During the weekend after the Winter Meetings, you don't expect a lot of things to happen. Of course, that wasn't the case this year, as movement continued over the past three days, reaching a tipping point late on Sunday night with the James Shields-Wil Myers megadeal. […]

Andruw Jones signs in Japan

This might not be the biggest shock of the offseason, but it sure caught me offguard: Andruw Jones has signed with the Rakuten Golden Eagles of Nippon Pro Baseball for 300 million yen, which equates to about $3.6 million in US dollars. Jones spent the last two seasons with the Yankees, serving primarily as a […]

The Myrtle Beach Pelicans don’t like the Hornets rebranding effort

I'm sure that by now, everyone has heard of the New Orleans Hornets and their eventual rebranding effort to be known as the New Orleans Pelicans. Well, the Myrtle Beach Pelicans of the high-A Carolina League have also heard, and they're not very happy about their nickname being scooped. In fact, the Pelicans posted a […]

Winners and losers coming out of the Winter Meetings

Well, the Winter Meetings are now behind us, and we're moving into the cold reality that baseball news for the next two months will likely start trickling in at a much slower pace. However, we can look at what's happened so far this offseason and determine who's done a good job for themselves so far, […]

Dugout Digest – the cold winter

Bad news, everyone: the Winter Meetings are over, and we're now into the cold, harsh offseason where news trickles out slowly but surely. But there are some huge names still on the free agent market (Josh Hamilton, Zack Greinke, Michael Bourn to name three), and hopefully rumors continue to swirl around those teams. Over the […]

Red Sox sign Koji Uehara

The spending spree from the Boston Red Sox continues, as the team has signed reliever Koji Uehara to a one-year deal (money currently unknown). Uehara, who will turn 38 in April, spent 2012 with the Rangers after being dealt to Texas from Baltimore at the 2011 trade deadline. One year for Uehara seems a bit […]

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