Sunday, November 8, 2009 The Daily Commercial AA7
BASEBALL
Manny Ramirez decides to stay with LA Dodgers
RONALD BLUM players the Mets sent to the Embree $250,000. Free agents can start negoti- going to play, and the past 24 Miguel Olivo ($3.3 million)
Associated Press Twins in the Johan Santana The Chicago White Sox ating money with all teams hours I haven’t know what and right-hander Yasuhiko
NEW YORK — Manny deal. declined a $12 million mutu- the following day. city I’m going to play in.” Yabuta ($4 million). Crisp and
Ramirez decided to stay with Two pitchers were blocked al option on right fielder Teahen batted .271 with 12 Teahen could make as much Olivo became eligible for free
from becoming eligible for Jermaine Dye. The 2005 homers and 50 RBIs this year, as $5 million in salary arbitra- agency.
the Los Angeles Dodgers on tion. Hardy, a 2007 All-Star, joins
Friday, and baseball’s trade free agency when teams exer- World Series MVP gets a making 99 starts at third base,
cised their 2010 options. Cliff $950,000 buyout and imme- Obviously, we’re in a time in catcher Joe Mauer, a teammate
market sprang to life with a 31 in right field and three at
diately filed for free agency. baseball where the economics on the U.S. national teams in
pair of swaps two days after Lee, who beat the Yankees second base. Chicago plans to
“Money is tight all over the are very, very important. I 2000 and 2003. The 27-year-
the World Series. twice in the World Series, switch Gordon Beckham to would not discount that as a old Hardy batted a career-low
Rather than become a free gets a $9 million salary from world and certainly on the second and use Teahen at third part of the equation,” Royals .229 with 11 homers and 47
agent, Ramirez exercised his Philadelphia next year. South Side,” Chicago general base. general manager Dayton RBIs in 115 games last season
$20 million option, part of a Brandon Webb, the 2006 NL manager Ken Williams said. “That’s really my comfort Moore said. and was demoted to Triple-A
deal the outfielder agreed to Cy Young Award winner, “We’re going to spend what- position,” Teahen said. “It’s Kansas City also declined in August. He replaces Orlando
with the Dodgers last March receives $8.5 million from ever we have available, but huge. The past three years I options for outfielder Coco Cabrera, who is eligible for free
that included a $25 million Arizona rather than a $2 mil- it’s not much.” haven’t known where I’m Crisp ($8 million), catcher agency.
salary for 2009. lion buyout. Milwaukee declined a $3.7
Among 16 Dodgers poten- Reliever J.J. Putz’s $9.1 mil- million option on right-han-
tially eligible for free agency, lion option was declined by der David Weathers, who
Ramirez hit .290 with 19 the Mets, who will pay a $1 gets a $400,000 buyout.
homers and 63 RBIs this year, million buyout. Washington The Angels’ Vladimir
his season stained by a 50- declined a $10 million Guerrero, Chone Figgins and
game suspension for violat- option and chose to pay a $1 Kelvim Escobar were among
ing baseball’s drug policy. million buyout to outfielder 39 players who filed Friday,
The Chicago White Sox Austin Kearns, who was raising the total of free agents
acquired Mark Teahen from bothered by a thumb injury to 118. Also filing were three
the Kansas City Royals for and hit just .195. members of the NL champi-
infielders Josh Fields and Colorado turned down on Philadelphia Phillies:
Chris Getz and cash, and options on catcher Yorvit Pedro Martinez, Brett Myers
Minnesota obtained short- Torrealba ($4 million) and and Miguel Cairo.
stop J.J. Hardy from left-hander Alan Embree ($3 About 65 additional play-
Milwaukee for outfielder million). Torrealba gets a ers are potentially eligible to
Carlos Gomez, one of the $500,000 buyout, and file by the Nov. 19 deadline.
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