Topic: Grant Balfour
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The Oakland Athletics continued to revamp their bullpen by agreeing Wednesday to a two-year contract with free agent reliever Brian Fuentes.The deal includes a club option for 2013, the team said in news release. No financial terms were ...
Free Agent 1 does have a higher ranking than Free Agent 2, so Free Agent 1's last team he plays for gets the higher compensation. Free Agent 2's last team he plays for gets the next best compensation.. Now for some Type ...
ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (Reuters) - Reid Brignac smashed a walk-off home run in the bottom of the 11th inning to lift the Tampa Bay Rays to a 1-0 win over the New York Yankees Monday and into top spot in the American ...
MIAMI (Reuters) - The Tampa Bay Rays have signed Australian Grant Balfour to a one-year deal to avoid arbitration with the veteran reliever, the team said on Sunday.The contract is worth $2.05 million for the 31-year-old right-hander, Major League Baseball reported on ...
DETROIT (Reuters) - The Detroit Tigers roared from behind on Placido Polanco's three-run, eighth-inning homer to defeat the Tampa Bay Rays 4-3 and give Justin Verlander his 15th win of the season on Sunday.Polanco drilled a two-out pitch off reliever Grant Balfour ...
Polanco's 3-run homer with 2 outs in the 8th lifts Tigers to 4-3 win over RaysPlacido Polanco hit a three-run homer with two outs in the eighth inning, lifting the Detroit Tigers to a 4-3 win over the Tampa Bay Rays on ...
Rays begin to take wraps off best pitchers during 15-7 victory over Red SoxThe respite is over for Tampa Bay's top pitchers. It's time to face hitters.Designated opening-day starter James Shields threw 22 pitches in his spring debut Saturday, and reliever Grant ...
PHILADELPHIA - It's different in October. An errant pitch by J.P. Howell and another by Grant Balfour, a wild throw by Dioner Navarro and a Carlos Ruiz dribbler down the third base line later, the Phillies were celebrating a 5-4 victory to ...
ST. PETERSBURG - He talks to himself, even shouts to himself as he races in from the bullpen to the rescue. "He's an animal, man," Rays reliever J.P. Howell said. "We definitely say that in a loving way," Rays center fielder B.J. ...
ST. PETERSBURG - The upstart Rays handled their first taste of October just as they have every other challenge that has come their way this season. Tropicana Field rocked as the Rays downed the White Sox 6-4 in Game 1 of the ...
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