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2010 Player Previews: Marcus Thames

2009: Marcus Thames finished his six season tour with Detroit with a .245 batting average and 99 home runs in 485 games. His best season came in 2006 when he hit .256 with 26 home runs and 60 RBI in 110 games, helping the Tigers to their first World Series appearance since 1984. Thames actually ...

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2010 Player Previews: Randy Winn

2009: Randy Winn was a very productive player during the first three years of his four-year deal with San Francisco, posting a .290 batting average and scoring 343 runs in 666 games with the Giants. He strugged offensively in 2009, hitting .262 with only two home runs in 149 games. Family issues or an undisclosed ...

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Randy Winn's Left Handed Contract

The Yankees officially announced the signing of outfielder Randy Winn yesterday and it was a $1.1 million base salary plus incentives instead of the $2 million deal that had been reported since his signing. When Winn initially signed the deal and it was believed to be in the $2 million range people were upset because another ...

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BBD Readers Confident In Gardner/Winn…Sort of

After the Yankees signed outfielder Randy Winn, effectively cutting ties with Johnny Damon for good, I put a poll up on the site asking our readers if they thought the Yankees would live to regret that decision. With 287 entries it was our most successful poll to date and it was a very interesting one at ...

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Rich Aurilia Wants to Play for Yanks, Mets

Infielder Rich Aurilia is apparently in a New York state of mind. He recently told Andrew Baggarly of the San Jose Mercury News that he'd like to play for one final season and he wants to play in New York: “We know nothing is imminent, but hopefully we keep in contact with them,” said Aurilia, who ...

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Winning With Winn

Last week, the Yankees simultaneously added outfield depth and shut the door on Johnny Damon by signing the 36 year-old Randy Winn to a one-year, $2 million deal. Prior to signing Winn, the Yankees had been linked to Rocco Baldelli, Jim Edmonds, Jermaine Dye and Reed Johnson, who signed with the Dodgers yesterday for $800,000. ...

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Girardi Sees Winn as Backup for Yankees

Since the Yankees signed outfielder Randy Winn there has been some confusion involved as many have tabbed him as theh replacement for Johnny Damon. While it might be true that Winn's signing was the end of Damon's tenure in the Bronx, he will not be his replacement. Realistically, Curtis Granderson is Damon's replacement and Winn isn't ...

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Winn Signing Is About Versatility

Before the offseason got too far in, I identified two outfield options I liked for the Yankees' bench: Eric Hinske and Reed Johnson.  The reason I liked both players was for their bats; Hinske has a lot of power off the bench and Johnson hits lefties well. As everyone knows by now, the Yankees opted in ...

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Randy Winn: A Giants Perspective

New Yankee Randy Winn has been in the majors for 13 years and even spent a good portion of that in the American League East. Still it seems he is a bit of an unknown to Yankee fans. So I interviewed a pair of San Francisco Giant bloggers, Chris Quick of Bay City Ball and ...

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Yankees Sign Winn But Might Still Want Baldelli

According to Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports, even though the Yankees signed switch-hitting outfielder Randy Winn this afternoon it won't necessarily keep them from acquiring a right-handed outfield bat as a non-roster invitee. That includes free agent Rocco Baldelli. We already knew that they didn't want to offer Baldelli a major league contract, but with two ...

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