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Hisanori Takahashi would also work in a relief role, but he can be a quality starter—the Mets paid the 35-year-old just $1 million in 2010, and with just 122 major-league innings under his belt, that price shouldn't jump much. The Japanese left-hander misses bats and has above-average control, and could provide value at the back end of the rotation of a cost-conscious team.
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Samuels, who has not been arrested, is believed to have told Major League Baseball that he bet on baseball games, a strict violation of baseball rules. Samuels, the Mets' clubhouse manager for 27 seasons, was described by a source as a "spider who sat in the middle of a money web," a man who earned about $80,000 a year from the Mets but whose tax returns showed about $600,000 to $700,000 in income. He has homes in Huntington, L.I., and Port St. Lucie.
NYDN
11-4-10 from: - MMLB ... olas-carr - Holt threw 3 or 4 different types of pitches yesterday: A Fastball, a change-up and a slider/curve-ball-like pitch (which I’ve labeled as a slurve). In addition, he threw two pitches (in a row) which appear to be a cutter or slider (slutter?), but could in fact be just a slip out of the hand (this is the problem with small sample sizes). The fastball is very disappointing: it had always been talked of having not great movement but of having once great velocity…now it doesn’t even have that (he topped out at 93.1MPH). The other pitches aren’t great either: The Change-Up has a decent sinking action, relative to the fastball…but in yesterday’s performance, 3 out of the 4 change-ups that Holt threw to batters were located REALLY HIGH (as in one was at the top of the regulation strike zone, and the other two were over a half a foot higher than that). This kind of location would tend to negate the sinking benefits of the pitch.
According to Mike Puma of the New York Post, Mets general manager Sandy Alderson will interview Chip Hale for the club's managerial vacancy over the weekend. Dave Jauss and Bob Melvin are expected to interview Thursday while Wally Backman and another internal candidate could interview Friday. Alderson will reportedly speak with Hale this weekend in Arizona en route to Southern California. The team is expected to open the field to external candidates next week. According to Puma, Astros third base coach Dave Clark has emerged as a candidates in recent days. Clark managed the final two weeks of the season in 2009 after Cecil Cooper was fired.
rotoworld
2010 Team/Salary: N/A, Last Played in 2009 w/Milwaukee Brewers
Once a successful reliever, Looper converted to the starting rotation in 2007 with the Cardinals. In 97 starts from 2007-09, he produced 2.5 WARP and a 4.76 ERA. Those are not solid numbers, but he did prove durable, pitching 175, 199, and 194 2/3 innings. The Brewers declined his option for the 2010 season and though his name was mentioned quite a bit over the summer, nobody ultimately bit, and Looper did not pitch at all. He is not going to get a guaranteed spot in a rotation, but a younger team looking for some stability at the back end of a rotation should see if he has anything left.
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