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Jarrett Hoffpauir claimed by Blue Jays

Found November 03, 2009 on Future Redbirds:
PLAYERS: Jarrett Hoffpauir
TEAMS: St. Louis Cardinals

Per the Blue Jays official Twitter feed. Hoffpauir had a nice little rebound season for Memphis, hitting .299/.367/.496 in 375 at-bats.  The problem is he was repeating triple-A, was 26 years old, and at least according to Total Zone (a respected defensive metric), Hoff had a glove o’lead. Over his past two seasons, he was minus [...]
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