BURKE BADENHOP RUMORS

Reliever Badenhop glad to play for Milwaukee

MILWAUKEE Burke Badenhop has one lasting memory of the Milwaukee Brewers and their fans. Sitting in the visitor's bullpen at Miller Park in late September of 2011, Badenhop had a great view as the Brewers clinched the National League Central Division title against his Florida Marlins. When he got word he was traded to Milwaukee in December, Badenhop's mind raced back to...
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February 04, 2013  |  Discuss

Rays trade Burke Badenhop to the Royals

The Kansas City Royals have acquired right handed reliever Burke Badenhop form the Tampa Bay Rays in exchange of Raul Mondesi Jr the teams have announced. Badenhop, 29, pitched 62.1 innings for the Rays in 2012 and went 3-2 with a 3.03 ERA, 3.62 FIP, 6.1 K/9, 1.7 BB/9 and 0.9 HR/9. Image by mwlguide under the Creative Commons License Agreement.
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December 03, 2012  |  Discuss

Rays acquire Mondesi Jr via trade

The Rays made a trade Saturday. They sent reliever Burke Badenhop to the Milwaukee Brewers in exchange for Minor League outfielder Raul Mondesi Jr.  This season, Mondesi Jr. hit .231 with five home runs and 32 RBI in 68 games for the Helena Brewers, Milwaukee’s Minor League affiliate. He was signed by the Brewers in 2010 out of the Dominican Republic. He is 20 years old. Badenhop...
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December 01, 2012  |  Discuss

Brewers acquire reliever Badenhop

The Tampa Bay Rays have traded right-handed reliever Burke Badenhop to the Milwaukee Brewers for outfielder Raul Mondesi Jr. The deal was made Saturday. Badenhop turns 30 on Feb. 8. He was 3-2 with a 3.03 ERA in 66 games last season. He has been a full-time reliever for the last three seasons and is 16-17 with two saves and a 4.08 ERA in his career with the Marlins and Rays. The...
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December 01, 2012  |  Discuss

Brewers acquire right-hander Badenhop in trade with Rays

The Milwaukee Brewers added an arm to their pitching staff Saturday, obtaining right-hander Burke Badenhop from Tampa Bay in a trade for minor-league outfielder Raul Mondesi Jr. Badenhop, 29, worked out of the Rays' bullpen this past season and had a 3-2 record with a 3.03 ERA in 56 appearances spanning 62 1/3 innings. He was tendered a contract by the Rays before the Friday...
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December 01, 2012  |  Discuss

Brewers trade for Rays reliever Badenhop

Beginning to rebuild what was the worst bullpen in baseball a year ago, Milwaukee Brewers general manager Doug Melvin announced Saturday that the club had acquired right-handed reliever Burke Badenhop from Tampa Bay in exchange for minor league outfielder Raul Mondesi, Jr. After already parting ways with relievers Kameron Loe, Francisco Rodriguez, Jose Veras, Manny Parra and Livan...
Via Fox Sports Wisconsin
December 01, 2012  |  Discuss

Rays send Burke Badenhop to Brewers

With MLB's annual winter meetings just days away, the Rays have made their first trade of the offseason, sending reliever Burke Badenhop to the Brewers. In return, Tampa Bay receives Raul Mondesi Jr., a 20-year-old outfielder who signed with the Brewers in 2010 out of the Dominican Republic. Badenhop threw 62.1 innings for the Rays in 2012, racking up 42 strikeouts and a 3...
Via Fox Sports Florida
December 01, 2012  |  Discuss

Burke Badenhop: Sinkers, Shifts and PitchFX

Burke Badenhop and the Tampa Bay infield are a marriage made in ground-ball heaven. MLB’s league-average GB rate fluctuates around 44 percent, and the sinkerballing right-hander boasts a career mark of 55.8 in 254 big-league relief innings. As Mike Axisa wrote when the Rays acquired him from the Marlins last December: “Tampa’s pitchers have enjoyed a .228 BABIP on ground balls...
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April 17, 2012  |  Discuss

Rays' reliever Badenhop quick on his feet

PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. For new Tampa Bay Rays reliever Burke Badenhop, the decision of a lifetime boiled down to playing on a farm team or a pharm team. The Ohio native graduated magna cum laude in the spring of 2005 with an economics degree from Bowling Green University, where hed also pitched for the Falcons baseball team. But uncertain of his prospects in the upcoming June amateur...
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March 05, 2012  |  Discuss

Burke Badenhop And The Rays’ Infield Defense

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...
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December 15, 2011  |  Discuss
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