Tigers sign lefty reliever John Bale

kellmellus50 · Post #1 » by **kellmellus50** » Mon Dec 6, 2010 7:14 am

Bale pitched in the Japanese Central League last season but has parts of seven major-league seasons under his belt. The 36-year-old appeared in 43 games for Kansas City in 2009 and was 0-1 with a 5.72 ERA. He recorded 24 strikeouts and 18 walks in 28 1/3 innings.

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Post #2 » by **ajaX82** » Mon Dec 6, 2010 7:59 pm

well....his ERA is under 6!

kellmellus50 · Post #3 » by **kellmellus50** » Thu Dec 9, 2010 12:05 am

Tigers also signed Santos most recently was with the Mets in 2009, where he had an OPS of .687. In 2010, he had a .522 OPS with Buffalo of the Triple A International League and numbers you don't even want to think about in Double A Eastern League (MILB.com stats). He played in just 27 MILB games last season

Year Team G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB K SB CS AVG OBP SLG
2009 Mets 96 281 28 73 14 1 7 40 15 44 0 0 .260 .296 .391

http://www.blessyouboys.com/2010/12/6/1 ... =fangraphs

kellmellus50 · Post #4 » by **kellmellus50** » Thu Dec 9, 2010 11:04 am

Detroit signed Australian right-handed pitcher Chris Oxspring, 33, to a minor league contract and invited him to its major league training camp. Oxspring was 0-0 with a 3.75 ERA for the San Diego Padres in five games in 2005, and struck out 11 with six walks in 12 innings.

Oxspring has pitched the past five seasons in Korea and Japan. He was a star in the 2004 Olympics, beating Japan twice.
The Tigers also signed Fu-Te Ni and Brad Thomas (another Aussie) from the Far East over the past two offseasons, and both stuck with the club.

“We grew our operation there over the last few years,” Dombrowski said. “We added (international operations director) Tom Moore and added the right people. We are definitely signing more players from the Far East.”

http://www.mlive.com/tigers/index.ssf/2 ... _leyl.html