Found November 30, 2012 on Monkey with a Halo: Yardbarker Blogger Network
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The November 30th, 2012 edition of daily news for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim including Angels interested in Dempster, Marlins covet Bourjos, David Courtney passes away and much more... The Story: The Angels are amongst a handful of teams showing interest in Ryan Dempster. The Monkey Says: Yuck.  Dempster scares me.  He was great with the Cubs before being traded, but was outperforming his peripherals but then he stunk up the joint in Texas, but underperformed his peripherals which were only slightly worse than they were with the Cubs.  Basically, you don't know what you are going to get and that is not usually the kind of pitcher you target. The Story: The Marlins want to add a center fielder and appear to covet Peter Bourjos. The Monkey Says: That, of course, probably isn't going to happen because the Fish don't really have much that would interest the Angels and the Angels already seem to be set on using Bourjos as a starter now.  However, I su...
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