The Blue Jays made a pair of waiver pickups Monday, claiming right-hander Kelvin Jimenez from the St. Louis Cardinals and shortstop Angel Sanchez from the Kansas City Royals. The 28-year-old Jimenez had a 5.63 ERA in 15 relief appearances for St. Louis this season. He has a major league record of 3-0 with a 6.82 [...]
The 2008 season hasn’t even ended and Shaun Marcum’s 2009 campaign is already over.
A banner hanging over the Boston bullpen at Rogers Centre proclaimed it to be the home of the “Noodle Arm Club,” but those arms were plenty strong Friday night. Jason Varitek drove in the go-ahead run in the eighth inning and four Boston relievers combined to throw three shutout innings as the Red Sox moved [...]
Disappointment ran rampant through the clubhouse and executive suites with the grim news that right-hander Shaun Marcum will have to undergo “Tommy John” ligament transfer surgery and will be lost for the entire 2009 season.
Right-hander A.J. Burnett is expected to opt out of his contract following the season, which with the Marcum update, leaves the [...]
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Blue Jays right-hander Shaun Marcum got an MRI exam Thursday, and the team said he won’t pitch again this season. Marcum, 9-7 with a 3.39 ERA in 25 starts, left Tuesday’s game against Baltimore after two-plus innings with a sore arm and numbness in his pinkie. The results of his MRI were being sent to [...]
Toronto Blue Jays righthander Shaun Marcum will not pitch again this season and could miss the start of the 2009 campaign, pending the results of an MRI he underwent Thursday.
In the past three months, the Baltimore Orioles have found no comfort in being close. Jose Bautista homered, pinch-hitter Gregg Zaun doubled home the tying and go-ahead runs in the sixth inning and the Toronto Blue Jays beat Baltimore 3-2 on Thursday night. The last-place Orioles have lost 19 of 22 games and dropped their [...]
