The trade would definitely help his team win, but RotoRob had picked Jones right from the get-go, back in the day when he first formed his Fantasy team. There was some pride in that and loyalty to a player that — while the “manager” will never actually manage or even meet him — had provided nothing but season after season of payoffs in the pool.
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So we’ll need to see more to believe he’s out of his slump. Apparently, the problems have resulted because he’s been tipping his pitches. We wouldn’t want to risk it against a hungry Yankee squad and showing-no-signs-of-cracking Detroit team this week. That’s a tall order for Buehrle even if he were on his game, which he clearly hasn’t been in the last month (0-5, 11.48 in July).
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By the way, will anyone want to play the suddenly loose Pirates in the second half? Expect them to do some serious spoiling for many a team’s playoff aspirations.
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The Phils scuffled out of the gates before turning it on in May. But when the June swoon hit, the trade rumours were soon to follow. By early July, the club had fallen 6.5 back in the Wild Card race with a hell of a lot of teams between them and the lead.
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Olivo, having a solid year, is already on pace to play 134 games this year and this extra action should garner more interest in him in deeper mixed leagues. Hoover, for his part, is a 30-year-old journeyman catcher who was originally a 23rd round pick by Tampa Bay way back in 1997. He’s gone 4-for-21 in two previous big league stints, the most recent in 2002, and is a veteran of 810 minor league games where his claim to fame is some pretty good speed for a catcher, having once stolen almost 30 bases in one minor league season. Hoover is batting .281 through 80 games at Triple-A this year with a bit of pop (20 doubles and five dingers).
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Kent originally was hurt one month ago Thursday and he missed six games heading into the All-Star break. When he returned on July 13, he was clearly scuffling, going just 3-for-16 in five games before he admitted that the pain was getting worse.
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And so the spotlight fell to a kid with just over 200 career at-bats, who was asked to help keep the Braves afloat at a time when the team is clinging for life, trying desperately to work their way back into the playoff race.
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