BURKE BADENHOP RUMORS
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
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April 17, 2012
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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
Rays to play to reliever Badenhop's strengths
Burke Badenhop didn't set out to add a sinker to his repertoire of pitches. But the Rays right-hander had enough sense to adopt the pitch when he recognized he had one.
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February 25, 2012
Rays avoid arbitration with Upton, Price, Badenhop
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...
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January 17, 2012
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
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December 15, 2011
Rays Acquire Badenhop From Marlins
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.
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December 13, 2011
Badenhop bolsters bullpen
The Rays' search for bullpen help may have turned up a long reliever Monday when they sent a minor-league catcher to the Marlins for right-hander Burke Badenhop.
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December 13, 2011
Rays acquire reliever Badenhop from Marlins
Right-hander Burke Badenhop has been traded by the Miami Marlins to the Tampa Bay Rays for minor league catcher Jake Jefferies.
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December 12, 2011
Tampa Bay Rays acquire RHP Burke Badenhop
The Tampa Bay Rays have acquired right-handed relief pitcher Burke Badenhop from the Miami Marlins in exchange for Minor League catcher Jake Jefferies...
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December 12, 2011
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December 12, 2011
Rays Acquire Burke Badenhop
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 58.5% ground...
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December 12, 2011
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