Melky Cabrera, the free-agent outfielder, has agreed to a two-year deal with the Toronto Blue Jays for $16 million, according to ESPN. Enrique Rojas of ESPNDeportes.com, broke the news early Friday. The deal will not become final until Cabrera passes a physical, according to a source close to the situation. “Melky will be a Blue [...]
Melky Cabrera Disqualifies Self From Batting Title Race
September 22, 2012 | Posted by
San Francisco’s Melky Cabrera disqualified himself from the NL batting honor when Major League Baseball and the players’ association agreed to a one-season-only change in the rule governing the individual batting, slugging and on-base percentage champions. Serving a 50-game suspension, the Giants slugger entered Friday with a league-leading .346 average, seven points ahead of Pittsburgh’s [...]
Bartolo Colon Suspended 50 Games for Testosterone
August 22, 2012 | Posted by
Bartolo Colon – Former Cy Young Award winner Bartolo Colon of the Oakland Athletics has been suspended 50 games after testing positive for testosterone. Wednesday’s announcement by Major League Baseball comes just a week after All-Star game MVP Melky Cabrera of the San Francisco Giants had received a 50-game suspension for testing positive for the [...]
Melky Cabrera Suspended 50 Games For Illegal Substance
August 16, 2012 | Posted by
Melky Cabrera, one of baseball’s most prolific hitters and all-star game MVP, tested positive for testosterone and was suspended for 50 games without pay, Major League Baseball announced. The San Francisco Giants’ outfielder was in violation of the drug agreement between owners and the players’ association. “My positive test was the result of my use [...]
Melky Cabrera Leads NL To 8-0 All-Star Game Win
July 11, 2012 | Posted by
Playing in his last all-star game at 40, Chipper Jones delivered perhaps the biggest in Monday night’s classic in Kansas City — and the game had not even started. National League manager Tony LaRussa asked the retiring Jones to address the team in the clubhouse before taking the field, and the Atlanta Brave third baseman [...]
