Cutnpaste: - Orel, Terry Collins, Chris Young, Nolan Ryan, and Matt Harvey

Orel:

Orel Hershiser, Bobby Valentine and Dan Shulman will form the new announcing team for “Sunday Night Baseball,” ESPN announced Wednesday. The network said last month that Jon Miller and Joe Morgan would not return for a 22nd season. Hershiser, the 1988 NL Cy Young Award winner, joined the booth as a third announcer last season. - NJ.com  

Terry Collins:
But Collins has major work to do to persuade his players to look past what they've already heard about him from guys who played for him in the past. Here's what one of those ex-players told Rumblings: "I hope he learned from his mistakes, from what he went through his first two times. He was very uptight, screaming F-bombs in the dugout, that sort of thing. Just a really, really high-strung guy." - ESPN  

Chris Young:

Chris Young -- The baggage: He has spent 276 days on the disabled list the past two years with shoulder trouble. The reason for inspiration: He came back in September and made four excellent starts (2-0, 0.90 ERA, 20 IP, 10 H, 2 ER, 15 K). "Unlike a lot of these guys," said one of the execs quoted earlier, "at least he was pitching at the end of the year." His home/road splits (2.85 career ERA at Petco Park, 4.31 everywhere else) are a concern. "But there's also some deception there," another exec said. So Young could be gobbled up by one of the half-dozen teams chasing him within a week. - ESPN  



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 Nolan Ryan:

Full Details: New York Mets trade P Nolan Ryan, P Don Rose, C Frank Estrada, and OF Leroy Stanton to the California Angels for SS Jim Fregosi - Before Nolan Ryan became the Major Leagues all time strikeout leader (5714), he was a young, talented, and very wild pitcher for the New York Mets. Over his first five season with the Mets (1966, 1968-71), Ryan had a 6.4 BB/9 ratio, and was 29-38 overall. However, in his first season with the Angels, Ryan made a noticeable jump. He set career bests (at the time) in wins (19), ERA (2.28), shutouts (9), innings pitched (284.0), games started (39), and strikeouts (329). He went on to pitch in an unheralded 27 MLB seasons, and is one of the greatest pitchers of all time - bleacherreport.  

Matt Harvey:

11-24-10 from: - mets geek  - 2. Matt Harvey. It just shows how down the Mets top part of its system is, when a guy who hasn’t thrown a pitch, that many believed was a mid to late 1st round pick in the draft, is the systems number 2 prospect. He features two plus pitches, a fastball and a slider, which some have called a slurve. He ditched his plus curve for the slider because of command reasons. I didn’t hate this pick because there wasn’t much top talent outside of the first 3 guys selected. I do think that Harvey has a chance to be a good major league pitcher, just not an ace on a contender. Best case scenario sees him as a Number 1 starter on a lesser division club or number 2 starter on a contender. Worst case scenario sees him in a major league pen somewhere in a late inning situation. He is slated to start in Port St Lucie and should be fast tracked to Double A by midseason.