SF Giants Rumors: Kickham’s Debut, Scott Proctor Retires
It wasn’t a nice two game road trip in Oakland for the San Francisco Giants. They got swept in the two-game set, and Mike Kickham started off his major league career with a loss. Kickham only lasted 2.1 innings and gave up 4 earned runs in his debut.
“Obviously, I came into it expecting a little heightened emotions but I was able to do a better job than I thought I would (keeping...
Scott Proctor Tells Baltimore Orioles , “I’m Retiring”
After seven seasons in the major leagues, reliever Scott Proctor has told the Baltimore Orioles that he is ready to hang up his gear. Struggling to make it back to the big game, Proctor’s last year in the majors was 2011. He retires having put up a 4.78 ERA in his career. Enjoy the fishing!
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Black smoke from Girardian Chapel signals that Yankees still haven't found a leftfielder
TAMPA _ Day 20 of the pinstripe papal conclave dawned under stormy skies Wednesday as Yankee leaders gathered inside the famous Steinbrenner Boatworks/Inheritance Tax Money Laundering complex to select the team's leftfielder in a fresh round of tryouts.The lack of consensus on Tuesday was revealed by a plume of black smoke billowed from the head of the team's general manager...
Scott Proctor: Alcohol, not Torre’s overuse, derailed career
Scott Proctor is attempting to land back on a Major League roster this season with the defending World Series champion San Francisco Giants. He hasn’t had any measure of success in the league since 2007, when he played for the rival Dodgers. Prior to that, he had what could be a described as a love-hate relationship with New York Yankees fans, as he was the most used pitcher on...
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Proctor opens up about alcoholism
Scott Proctor is trying to make it onto the San Francisco Giants. He opened up about his alcoholic past, which he says derailed his career.
Cashman's ex lowers the boom
The Daily Murdoch sent two reporters this week to dig the latest toxic dirt on Brian Cashman's dangerous love life, which has ascended into Yankee lore with the likes of Fritz Peterson's trades and Scott Proctor's firestarter. The nut graph says that Cashman will pay his wife $1 million a year in child support until the year 2525, if man still alive, or she accepts Alphonso...
SF Giants Rumors: Non-Roster Invitees
With Spring Training vastly approaching, Andrew Baggarly of CSNBayArea.com shared with us the San Francisco Giants non-roster invitees.
There is seventeen pitchers, five catchers, six infielders and two outfielders that have been invited to camp. These are the non-roster players. All players on the 40-man roster automatically receive big league camp invites.
Pitchers
Brett...
This week, the smartest team in baseball signed Scott Proctor
I know what you're thinking: Scott Proctor? Noooo! He's dead. We all saw Joe Torre shoot him! Between the eyes. We saw it!Me no think. Me just report. Scott Proctor has been signed by the San Francisco Giants.I still remember him dealing with a tough outing by piling all his belongings at home plate, dousing them with lighter fluid and striking a match. That's juju, folks...
SF Giants Rumors: Scott Proctor and Ryan Sadowski Leave Korea To Sign With The Giants Organization
We learned yesterday that the San Francisco Giants dipped in the Korea Baseball Organization to snag veteran pitcher Scott Proctor.
Andrew Baggarly of CSNBayArea.com reports (via Twitter) that the Giants also signed another pitcher who pitched in Korea last season. Ryan Sadowski who pitched for the Lotte Giants in 2012, signed with the Giants organization on December 10, 2012...
Korean Saves King Signs With Giants
Yes, it's true. And, yes, the title of this post was specifically written to make you think it WASN'T about Scott Proctor signing with the San Francisco Giants...but, alas, it is.According to his agent, Mark Rodgers, the soon-to-be-36-year-old righty inked a deal to play for the World Champs late Monday night."For a veteran player like Scott, if he does what he is...
SF Giants Rumors: Scott Proctor Inks Minor League Deal With Giants
Mike Graham of WPTV.com (News Channel 5 in West Palm Beach, Florida) reports that the San Francisco Giants have signed veteran pitcher Scott Proctor to a minor league deal. Proctor will also get an invite to Spring Training, and have a chance to compete and make the Opening Day Roster.
Proctor’s agent (Mark Rodgers) said the Giants contacted them once they found out that Proctor...
Scott Proctor signs minor league deal with Giants
Relief pitcher Scott Proctor has signed a minor league contract with the San Francisco Giants in hopes of continuing his baseball career stateside.
According to Proctor’s agent the 36-year-old right hander has been invited to spring training. He last pitched at the major league level in 2011 with the Yankees.
Proctor spent last year pitching in the Korean Baseball Organization...
Dropping Links: Sunday, September 23, 2012
Some links as you get the food ready and wait for the gang to come over for another Sunday full of football.
- Time Warner Cable finally got the NFL Network and Red Zone Channel, as the two entities came to terms Friday. |Awful Announcing|
- NHL 13 is doing well in sales despite the NHL being locked out. |Pastapadre|
- Former Yankee and Dodger Scott Proctor is doing well in Japan...
Former Yankee Breaking Records in Korea
In 307 big league appearances (including a league best 83 in 2006), Scott Proctor saved only one game. And that was back in 2005...his second season in the bigs.Now playing for the Doosan Bears of the Korea Baseball Organization the former New York Yankee hurler is a record breaker.Early this week, the veteran righty picked up his 32nd save of the season...breaking Brad Thomas...
ALL RIGHT, IF ANYBODY HERE THINKS WE CAN'T LOSE THIS THING, GET OUT NOW! GO! LEAVE THIS BLOG! WALK OUT THE DOOR AND NEVER COME BACK! YOU'RE NOT WELCOME HERE!
LISTENUP! EVERY DAMN ONE OF YOU.I DON'T WANT TO SEE ANYBODY HERE SMILING! IF I SEE ANYBODY SMILING, HE'LL BE GONE BEFORE ANYBODY CAN SAY, "SCOTT PROCTOR SAW THE DOCTOR."EIGHT YEARS AGO, WHEN WE THREE GAMES UP IN OCTOBER, I REMEMBER SEEING SOME PEOPLE SMILING. REMEMBER EIGHT YEARS AGO, CHILDREN? THREE UP IN OCTOBER? OR HAS THAT MEMORY BEEN BLISSFULLY ERASED FROM...
Rays preview: Tampa Bay is the New Boston (w/o the $$$)
Last September, the Rays staged a miracle comeback versus the Yankees. Down 7-0 in the 7th inning, Evan Longoria homered off Cory Wade to cap a six run 7th inning. Dan Johnson, who was batting .108, then connected for a homerun in the 9th to tie it. In the 12th, just as Boston blew a lead versus the Orioles, Longoria homered a second time off of Scott Proctor (0-3) to not...
Crazy Eights: Caps and Sabres Battle for East's Final Playoff Spot
Shortly after midnight on September 29th, Evan Longoria laced an offering from Yankee reliever Scott Proctor into the left-field seats at Tropicana Field and launched the Rays into the postseason after climbing out of a 7-0 hole.
On April 11, 2010, Claude Giroux's shoot-out winner put the Philadelphia Flyers past the Rangers and into playoffs, leading to their Cinderella run...
Worst MLB Promotional Items for 2012
How many of you really care about the giveaways at a ballgame? Most of the time I find a kid that I can hand mine off and relieve me of having to carry the stupid thing around all game. The hats are cheesy, bags too feminine and the toys, well… I am 35-years old I really don’t need a lunch box, doll or bat. The calendars would be nice if they actually included players that were...
Scott Proctor signs with Korean team
South Korea's Doosan Bears say they have signed former New York Yankees pitcher Scott Proctor.
The Doosan Bears said Thursday that Proctor signed a one-year, $300,000 contract to play for the team in 2012. The club says Proctor will join the team's offseason training due to start in Arizona next week.
The 35-year-old Proctor went 18-16 with a 4.78 ERA during his seven years...
Ex-Yankee Proctor to play in South Korea (AP)
South Korea's Doosan Bears say they have signed former New York Yankees pitcher Scott Proctor. The Doosan Bears said Thursday that Proctor signed a one-year, $300,000 contract to play for the team in 2012. The club says Proctor will join the team's offseason training due to start in Arizona next week.
Korean team says ex-Yanks pitcher Proctor has 1-year, $300K deal
South Korea's Doosan Bears say they have signed former New York Yankees pitcher Scott Proctor.
Scott Proctor signs with Korean Baseball Team
Scott Proctor finally found a place where Joe Torre couldn’t abuse him.
Proctor has reportedly signed a contract to play with Korean baseball team the Doosan Bears, officially ending his second stint with the Yankees, according to Dan Kurtz of MyKBO.
I’m still not sure why, but the Yankees picked Proctor up off the scrap heap after the Braves released him last summer. He...
Scott Proctor Signs In Korea
Reliever Scott Proctor signed with Korea's Doosan Bears, reports Dan Kurtz of MyKBO.net. The team added Dustin Nippert back in November.
Proctor, 35, pitched for the Braves and Yankees in 2011. He posted a 7.14 ERA, 6.5 K/9, 6.9 BB/9, 2.5 HR/9, and 31.6% groundball rate in 40 1/3 innings. Proctor's average fastball velocity was up to 93.8 miles per hour, but it...
Spring Training in September
I very much love the game of baseball, and like anyone who loves the game, there are some things about the way Major League Baseball produces the game that drive me crazy. One of the glaring voids in the new collective bargaining agreement is the continued use of expanded rosters in the month of September. For the first five months of the season, managers have 25 players to use throughout...
10 Photos - Thames Nearly Maimed
Today's POTD looks at a close call involving rookie left fielder Eric Thames against the Yankees at the Dome September 18 and a chain reaction of events afterwards.The perp - Scott Proctor. ;D
The victim - Eric Thames. His helmet goes flying in front of Yankees catcher Russell Martin......after fouling the ball off his left eye in the seventh inning.Thames tries to focus again...
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