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Re: Around Baseball
DIR By: Clarkaddison
Date: May 10, 2011, 11:01 am
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Guyer could be the wild card. Maybe he's a late bloomer, who
the Cubs had no room for at the time. Like McGehee.
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Re: Around Baseball
DIR By: Cactus
Date: May 10, 2011, 8:34 pm
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The Twins and Tigers are in a hail delay at Target Field. It's
been going on for a while.
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Re: Around Baseball
DIR By: CurtOne
Date: May 10, 2011, 8:50 pm
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Who are they hailing?
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Re: Around Baseball
DIR By: Jes Beard
Date: May 10, 2011, 9:25 pm
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A look back at Brandon Guyers whirlwind weekend
By Mark Townsend
While the eyes of the baseball world were focused on Eric
Hosmer's(notes) major league debut with the Kansas City Royals
over the weekend, another young man with a dream to play in the
big leagues quietly made his debut with the Tampa Bay Rays.
His name is Brandon Guyer(notes) (above left), a 25-year-old
outfielder who was named the Chicago Cubs minor league Player of
the Year in 2010. Despite that honor, Guyer arrived with far
less fanfare than Hosmer, but just as much determination to
leave his mark. And that's exactly what he did in very
abbreviated call-up that spanned only three days, but provided
more than one fascinating story.
Here's a quick look back at those 72 hours:
The call-up: Brandon Guyer was a part of one the offseason's
biggest trades. Along with Sam Fuld(notes), and other prospects
Chris Archer(notes), Robinson Chirinos and Hak-Ju Lee, Guyer was
shipped from the Cubs to Tampa Bay in exchange for Matt
Garza(notes), Fernando Perez(notes) and minor leaguer Zach
Rosscup.
With the Rays' other offseason acquistions of Manny
Ramirez(notes), Johnny Damon(notes) and Fuld, and with top
prospect Desmond Jennings(notes) waiting in the wings, a trade
to Tampa probably didn't feel like the fast track to the big
leagues for Guyer. But sure enough, when the Rays needed to plug
a hole on their roster over the weekend, it was Guyer receiving
the call he'd been waiting for.
He learned the news from Triple-A Durham manager Charlie Montoyo
after his final at-bat a failed attempt for a bunt base hit
in Thursday night's game. Less than 24 hours later, he was to
report to Camden Yards, a 90-mile drive from Herndon, Va., where
he was a standout athlete in baseball and football, to make his
big league debut against the Baltimore Orioles.
His first at-bat there would be a polar opposite of his last in
Durham.
The home run: When Guyer arrived to the ballpark on Friday, he
found his name on Joe Maddon's lineup card batting sixth and
playing left field. By the time his first at-bat came around in
the second inning, the Rays already held a 1-0 lead, and B.J.
Upton(notes) was on second base.
Guyer showed terrific patience, working himself into a 3-1 count
against Baltimore's Zach Britton(notes). When Britton delivered
the next pitch, Guyer golfed it into the left-field seats,
becoming the 109th player to hit a home run in his first major
league at-bat.
Watch Brandon Guyer's first home run
Guyer finished the night 1 for 3 with two strikeouts, but the
two-run blast gave starter James Shields(notes) all the offense
he needed in the Rays' 6-2 victory.
A fascinating sidenote: When Guyer's Single-A Peoria Chiefs
(Cubs affiliate) played a regular-season game at Wrigley Field
in 2008, Guyer hit the first pitch he saw for a home run into
the left-field bleachers. Needless to say he doesn't allow the
extra deck or two to serve as an intimidating factor.
Almost perfect: Everything about Guyer's debut was storybook.
Well, except for one little detail. His wife, Lindsay Murphy, a
sports anchor at FOX 5 in Washington, D.C., who delivered her
final sports report at 6:20 p.m., didn't make it into the
stadium in time to witness the event. She actually heard it on
the radio, while finding a place to park in the Camden Yards
parking lot.
From The St. Petersburg Times:
"My reaction was to scream and roll my window down and yell at
people walking in the stadium," Murphy said. "I'm kind of
surprised. For how young he is and everything, he's poised well
beyond his years."
The abrupt ending: Guyer's short stint ended on Sunday when he
was optioned back to Durham to make room for right-handed
pitcher Rob Delaney(notes). He only received those three at-bats
in Friday's game, but the message he received from Joe Maddon
says all you need to know about the impression Guyer made then,
and as far back as spring training.
"He's going to be back here," Maddon said. "I liked him the
moment I met him in spring training. He looks you in the eye."
[...]
"First of all, I said, 'Great job and thank you for what you did
for us here, but we're a little bit short in the bullpen and we
have to make a move today. I want you to know you made a great
impression on all of us, like you did in spring training,"
Maddon said.
The game of baseball itself is amazing, but it's the stories
that surround the game, like Brandon Guyer's first weekend in
the big leagues, that make it so incredibly special and fun to
follow. Here's hoping we get to see a continuation of Brandon's
story sooner rather than later.
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Re: Around Baseball
DIR By: Reb
Date: May 11, 2011, 11:27 am
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Nice aftermath from the Milton Bradley release.
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Re: Around Baseball
DIR By: Cactus
Date: May 11, 2011, 2:00 pm
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The Mets and Rockies game in Denver tonight has been postponed
by rain and snow. It is the 20th postponement this year. One
more and the total from all of last year will have been equaled.
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Re: Around Baseball
DIR By: Keysbear
Date: May 11, 2011, 2:11 pm
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snow? damn that global warming
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Re: Around Baseball
DIR By: mO
Date: May 11, 2011, 3:19 pm
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Wow! Milwaukee pitching has given up 13 runs and 23 hits to the
Padres' anemic offense.
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Re: Around Baseball
DIR By: StrikeZone
Date: May 11, 2011, 3:41 pm
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The Padres scored eight runs in the eighth inning.
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Re: Around Baseball
DIR By: StrikeZone
Date: May 11, 2011, 3:52 pm
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Cubs fans sure to embrace Jim Hendry hugging Albert Pujols
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/> By David Brown
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Well, well, well. What would the Fraternization Police
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/>think of this? In what both probably would claim to be a
simple
show of manly fellowship, Chicago Cubs
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GM Jim Hendry and St.
Louis Cardinals
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slugger Albert Pujols
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hugged it out
twice at Wrigley Field before the game Tuesday night.
Big bear hugs. Well, little bear hugs (they're the Cubs, after
all).
The first embrace happened because Albert plays for the Cubbies'
most-despised rival and both men knew it would ruffle
feathers/give chills in the respective Gateway and Second
cities. The second came because Albert is expected to file for
free agency after the season and the Cubs just happen to have a
possible opening at first base.
No, no, no it's just a hug, Sigmund Freud Hendry says, via the
blog of CSN Chicago's Patrick Mooney
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<blockquote>"I can't win," a bemused Hendry said. "I like
Albert. We've always gotten along. He's a great, great player. I
admire the heck out of him. He plays the game the right way
every day."
Hendry pointed out that he also hugged Ryan Theriot
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the ex-Cubs
shortstop.</blockquote> He hugs Theriot on the way out, he hugs
Pujols on the way in. I get it. It was all perfectly innocent,
you see? All of this Cardinals cuddling obviously loosened them
up, as Pujols had four hits in a 6-4 victory
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for the
Redbirds.
While it doesn't hurt the Cubs that Pujols apparently likes
Hendry, their chances of landing him in free agency will have
more to do with another sort of affection the kind that comes
with cash.
And, as Mooney and Joe Strauss in the Post-Dispatch point out,
Hendry is friendly
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/>with a lot of players. But it does make me wonder. What's
Prince
El Machine like around Cardinals' GM John Mozeliak?
"Congratulations, Albert, and here's your certificate; you're
now a sandwich artist."
"So. ... you wear a 52 extra, extra, extra long? Shiny, too."
"I think it's real silver, Al!"
Let's get one more look at Pujols and Hendry:
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Yeah, the Cardinals might be in trouble here.
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