All posts tagged "MLB"

  • Texas Rangers' Choo Shin-soo, of Korea, avoids a close pitch. (AP)
    Choo Shin-soo among 10 worst MLB contracts: ESPN

    Texas Rangers’ Korean outfielder Choo Shin-soo ended up on ESPN’s ‘The 10 worst contracts” list. The assessment was made by an analytical projection system called ZiPS, which was created by ESPN statistics specialist Dan Szymborski. It estimates players’...

    • Posted August 1, 2014
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  • Colorado Rockies' Charlie Blackmon, right, scores after Brandon Barnes is caught stealing second as the ball goes past Los Angeles Dodgers catcher Tim Federowicz, left, while starting pitcher Ryu Hyun-Jin, of South Korea, looks on during the fifth inning of a baseball game, Sunday, April 27, 2014, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
    Ryu Hyun-jin gets rocked by Rockies

    Drops to 3-2 after allowing six runs on nine hits in five-plus innings  (Yonhap) Ryu Hyun-jin of the Los Angeles Dodgers suffered his second loss of the season on Sunday after a shaky start against the Colorado...

    • Posted April 28, 2014
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    Mariners’ Korean prospect Choi Ji-man suspended 50 games for PED

    (Yonhap) — South Korean minor league prospect Choi Ji-man, 23, was suspended for 50 games on Thursday after testing positive for a banned performance-enhancing substance, officials announced. Major League Baseball (MLB) said Choi, a first baseman for...

    • Posted April 18, 2014
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  • Texas Rangers’ newly-added hitter Choo Shin-soo answers questions from reporters at Incheon International Airport, Monday. Choo signed a seven-year, $130 million contract to be the team’s leadoff hitter and left fielder. (Yonhap)
    Choo vows to live up to expectations

    By Jung Min-ho Choo Shin-soo, who arrived in America as a scrawny teenage prospect from Busan, is now the living embodiment of the American dream. He used to live off less than $2,000 a month as a...

    • Posted December 30, 2013
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