data.3news-bydate.test.rec.sport.baseball.104326 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (Gail A. Fullman)
Subject: Re: PHILLIES SIGN MARK DAVIS
Organization: Lehigh University
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>> Does that mean they have to pay his salary? Didn't they wait
>> for him to clear waivers? If not, why not?
>>
Davis will be paid by three clubs this year, I think the Phils are
responsbible for about $600,000 or so. They didn't wait for him to clear
waivers as three other clubs were also very interested in him. A gamble?
Yes.
>> Oh, it will? As a Royals fan, I am skeptical. They say he pitched well
>> in winter ball. He also pitched well at Omaha while with KC. He just
>> didn't pitch well (or even acceptably) when in the majors. (I don't have
>> his Atlanta stats, but he must not have impressed them very much either.)
>
>What about the year when he got 40+ saves in San Diego, did he pitch well
>then? Ok, I know he was awful the next year when he went to KC but still...
>
Won the CY Young, too, for that year.
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