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Sun Sentinel
| 1 year ago
Not since Art Shires in 1930 had a White Sox player received the designation of team captain. Jeff Torborg 60 years later decided it was time to renew the practice. Future Hall of Famer Carlton Fisk was an obvious choice, but Torborg didn't stop...
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Chicago Tribune
| 1 year ago
Second baseman Gordon Beckham arrived Saturday at the Chicago White Sox 's spring training facility less bulky than last year. "I feel good about where I'm at," Beckham said. "I came into the end of spring training last year weighing 205...I kind of...
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Chicago Tribune
| 1 year ago
Practicing with only pitchers and catchers until Tuesday gives new Chicago White Sox manager Robin Ventura an opportunity to look at some of the organization's youngsters and newly acquired pitchers. Ventura was particularly impressed with pitchers...
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Sun Sentinel
| 1 year ago
Braun said as much during a 30-minute press conference at the Milwaukee Brewers ' spring training complex in Maryvale, Ariz. A test administered on Oct. 1 came back positive for synthetic testosterone. Not only that, it was three times higher than...
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The Daily Herald
| 1 year ago
Pierzynski was grumpy, sarcastic and honest Thursday before hitting the field for his first workout of spring training...Pierzynski is also coming off his first significant injury, a fractured wrist that forced him on the disabled list last August. I'...
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The Daily Herald
| 1 year ago
Despite a new haircut and new uniform, Jose Reyes was easy to recognize on his first day at spring training Thursday. Several dozen fans shouted Reyes name as they clustered along a practice-field fence at the Miami Marlins complex, and when he...
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Chicago Tribune
| 1 year ago
As he watched rookie manager Robin Ventura conduct his first workout for pitchers and catchers Thursday, general manager Ken Williams didn't shy away from discussing his job status after three consecutive non-playoff seasons. "Listen, I've always...
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Miami Herald
| 1 year ago
Marlins Speedy Dominican Trio' hopes to steal the show for Miami Marlins Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen wants Jose Reyes, Emilio Bonifacio and Hanley Ramirez to be serious stolen-base threats. The team's baseball minds wanted to go retro in trying...
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Sun Sentinel
| 1 year ago
Asked Wednesday about his lineup, Guillen said he hadn't settled on anything yet. He reeled off Bonifacio, Reyes, Ramirez, Mike Stanton , Logan Morrison , Gaby Sanchez , Omar Infante and John Buck . Guillen then added he was debating whether to bat...
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KSBY
| over 1 year ago
The Santa Maria native is about to begin his first season as manager of the White Sox, the same club he played for during the first ten years of his big league career. Pitchers and catchers report to the team's spring training facility in Glendale,...
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SF Gate
| over 1 year ago
Jason Campbell The Raiders ' quarterback saw his season cut short by an injured collarbone. Now the same injury has apparently scuttled his wedding to girlfriend Jenny Montes. The couple invited 162 family members and friends to the Dominican...
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Miami Herald
| over 1 year ago
That the circus had arrived was clear from the moment the ringmaster stood surrounded by his performers for a few introductory remarks Wednesday...Win [bleep]ing games! he told his Miami Marlins players as spring training officially began.
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The Daily Herald
| over 1 year ago
To many outside observers, the White Sox hiring Robin Ventura as new manager was akin to a Little League player missing most of the games and practices yet still being picked to play in the All-Star Game. A homegrown star third baseman for the Sox...
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Chicago Tribune
| over 1 year ago
As the White Sox embark on life without manager Ozzie Guillen during their first workout for pitchers and catchers, a lingering question will be how the team copes without at least 10 victories, 30 starts and 200 innings for 11 consecutive seasons...
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Miami Herald
| over 1 year ago
Ozzie Guillen liked what he saw of Josh Johnson on Wednesday when the ace of the Marlins stepped up on a bullpen mound and threw his 35-pitch allotment. But Guillen said more important than how Johnson looked on Wednesday is how the pitchers right...
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The Daily Herald
| over 1 year ago
Carlos Zambrano waited until the end of his throwing session Wednesday to try out a brushback pitch on Ozzie Guillen. The Miami Marlins' manager was leaning on a bat near home plate, watching Zambrano work, when a fastball came whizzing his direction.
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| over 1 year ago
Ariz. (AP) Coolly dressed in a black long-sleeve shirt and jeans, the new manager of the Chicago White Sox sat atop an aluminum picnic table and held his first media session of spring training outdoors...This was Robin Ventura , about as far as one...
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AP Online
| over 1 year ago
Ariz. (AP) — The new manager of the Chicago White Sox didn't curse, rant or make any headlines during his first media session of the spring.
Robin Ventura was calm and cool — in other words, he was no Ozzie Guillen.
The...
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International Herald Tribune
| over 1 year ago
Ariz. (AP) The new manager of the Chicago White Sox didn't curse, rant or make any headlines during his first media session of the spring. Robin Ventura was calm and cool in other words, he was no Ozzie Guillen. The White Sox are opening training...
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The Daily Herald
| over 1 year ago
Political candidates and baseball teams routinely employ advertising phrases to market themselves...Kane County Cougars: Come see us, were not either of those local baseball goofs...However, the ones that baseball teams concoct can be just as silly...
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Sun Sentinel
| over 1 year ago
How could any team with Ozzie Guillen yapping away from the manager's chair be anything but?...Good enough, I mean, to end an eight-year postseason drought for this much-maligned franchise? "Well, you hope so," Marlins baseball czar Larry Beinfest...
