http://www.sbnation.com/users/joeiscool12 Posts made by joeiscool12 on SB Nation http://www.twinkietown.com/2008/8/13/592850/well-at-least-they-tried joeiscool12 Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:27:16 -0000 <h3><a href="http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2008/08/embree-claimed.html">Well, at least they&nbsp;tried...</a></h3> <div class="description"><p>According to Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle, the Twins claimed Oakland lefty Alan Embree off waivers, but the A's pulled him back. He can no longer be traded this season.</p> <p>Too bad it didn't work out...</p></div> http://www.twinkietown.com/2008/6/24/557924/rincon-finds-a-home joeiscool12 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:09:51 -0000 <blockquote> <p><a href="http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080624&amp;content_id=2993351&amp;vkey=news_cle&amp;fext=.jsp&amp;c_id=cle&amp;partnerId=rss_cle">According to Anthony Castrovince at MLB.com</a>, the Indians have signed reliever <strong>Juan Rincon</strong> and infielder <strong>Tony Graffanino</strong> to minor league deals.</p> <p>Rincon, 29, lost effectiveness in August of '06 and pretty much never recovered.&nbsp; It's easy to try to tie his decline to his May '05 performance enhancing drug suspension, but he was solid for the rest of that season.</p> <p>Graffanino, 35, is trying to work his way back from knee and ACL surgeries.</p> </blockquote> <p>---</p> <p>Per one of my other favorite baseball sites, <a href="http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2008/06/indians-sign-ri.html">mlbtraderumors.com.</a> In a sense, we are paying him to make the Indians bullpen worse, so it sort of helps us.</p>