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    • Saturday, March 16, 2013

    NY Times: Giambi Reinvents Himself, and Baseball Is Intrigued

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    posted on March 16, 2013 at 12:38 PM by bobm to jason giambi  |  19 comment(s)

    Half of the major league teams train in Arizona, and Giambi is the oldest player out here. Two pitchers in Florida camps, Mariano Rivera of the Yankees and Darren Oliver of the Toronto Blue Jays, are older. Giambi is the dean of the Cactus League. He turned 42 on Jan. 8 — Elvis Presley’s birthday, naturally.

    Giambi hopes to make the Indians’ roster as a pinch-hitter and occasional designated hitter, the kind of bench player his old general manager with the Yankees, Brian Cashman, calls ...

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    1. puck posted on February 21, 2013 at 12:41 AM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Are there other criteria for XX(B) status besides service time? The previous year's article says:

    An Article XX(B) free agent is simply one with six or more years of major league service whose big league contract expired at the conclusion of last season.


    I assume service time is why Chris Volstad doesn't qualify. But what about Yorvit Torrealba? He's not listed under the Rockies but he signed a minor league deal.
    2. Mike Fast posted on February 21, 2013 at 10:33 AM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Torrealba is an Article XIX(A)(2) free agent, i.e., he refused an outright assignment to Triple-A.

    http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/8516175/livan-hernandez-yorvit-torrealba-milwaukee-brewers-players-become-free-agents
    3. zonk posted on February 21, 2013 at 10:50 AM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    For some super-odd reason, I am obsessed with these sorts of flotsam lists... 6 year minor league FAs, fringers in the rule 5, this... Maybe it's just a function of using the 5 waiver claims traded for a marginal prospect in OOTP...

    But I have to say -- no one on list holds the slightest bit of interest for me.... OK - maybe Matt Capps...
    4. JJ1986 posted on February 21, 2013 at 11:07 AM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    I think Juan Carlos Oviedo and Pedro Feliciano are both somewhat interesting stories. Oviedo probably won't pitch this year, but Feliciano just spent two years on the shelf and if he makes it back will be one of those guys who spent years with a major league team that he never appeared for.

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