BURKE BADENHOP RUMORS

Centerfielder B.J. Upton and pitchers David Price and Burke Badenhop have agreed to one-year contracts with the Tampa Bay Rays, avoiding arbitration. The deals reached before Tuesday's deadline for teams and players to exchange salary proposals will pay Upton $7 million, Price's $4.35 million and Badenhop $1,075,000 next season. Upton earned $4.85 million last year, when...

The Rays have been building bullpens on the cheap for years now, not necessarily because they want to but because they don’t have any other choice. They added to their stable of low cost relievers earlier this week by acquiring right-hander Burke Badenhop from the Marlins for catcher prospect Jake Jefferies. In his work for MLB Trade Rumors, our own Matt Swartz projects Badenhop...

In a Monday press release the Tampa Bay Rays announced that they had acquired reliever Burke Badenhop from the Miami Marlins for minor league catcher Jake Jeffries. We have all of the details of the deal inside.

The Rays acquired right-hander Burke Badenhop from the Marlins for minor league catcher Jake Jefferies, according to Marc Topkin of the St. Petersburg Times. MLBTR projects Badenhop, 28, would earn approximately $1.1MM through the arbitration process as a first-time eligible player. Badenhop posted a 4.10 ERA with 7.2 K/9 and 3.4 BB/9 in 63 2/3 innings in 2011. His...

The Marlins won an odd game on a rainy Monday in New York 2-1 in eleven innings.    A one hour and twenty minute rain delay at the start of the game was followed by extra innings.    A game that ended after midnight saw Burke Badenhop not only pick up the win but also the game [...]

It was a game for the ages in Queens Monday night as the Marlins had to come back again to defeat the New York Mets 2-1. Mike Stanton hit a game-tying home run (8) in the seventh to send the Marlins into extras. However, it was the extra innings that were crazy to watch. First, in the tenth inning with two on and one out. Burke Badenhop served up a pitch to Justin Turner and he grounded...

The Florida Marlins have signed right-handed pitcher Burke Badenhop to a one-year contract, according to Joe Capozzi of The Palm Beach Post. ]]>

The title tells it all, even if there isn’t much in the way of analysis. The Marlins bullpen so far has been atrocious, with only Burke Badenhop sparing us from a completely messed up group of guys. When you look at the set of players we’re using, a few things come to mind in light [...]

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The offense: Bad. The pitching: Worse. The result: Ugh. The Phillies barely showed up against the Marlins, losing 6-2 and yet another home series. Burke Badenhop, making his first start of the season, threw a solid five innings — yet another sinkerball pitcher who looked like Cy Young against the flailing Phillies. The bad numbers: Jimmy [...]