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Baseball Notebook: Brewers' Bush will have another exam
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Published: July 17, 2009
■ Brewers: Right-hander Dave Bush was sent for another medical exam after a poor showing in his latest rehabilitation start.
Bush has been on the disabled list since June 23 with a small tear in his right triceps. He made his second medical rehab start on Wednesday for Class AA Huntsville and gave up six hits and five runs in only three innings, struggling to throw strikes. The Brewers decided yesterday to have him checked again.
The Brewers were hoping that Bush, a former Wake Forest star, could return next week. Bush is 3-4 with a 5.67 ERA.
■ Cubs: Chicago signed B.J. Ryan, a former Toronto closer, to a minor-league deal yesterday, hoping to add another left-hander to their bullpen.
Ryan, 33, released by the Blue Jays earlier this month, will first report to the Cubs' spring-training complex in Mesa, Ariz. If all goes well, he'll join Class AAA Iowa.
The Cubs have only one left-handed reliever, Sean Marshall. Cubs manager Lou Piniella employed a unique strategy to keep Marshall in the game last weekend, moving him to left field when a righty reliever came in, then bringing him back to pitch one batter later.
The Cubs started the second half at 43-43, 3½ games behind NL Central-leading St. Louis.
Ryan was in the fourth year of a five-year, $47 million contract. He was 1-1 with a 6.53 ERA, and gave up 22 hits, including five home runs, and 17 walks in 20 2/3 innings.
Ryan spent six seasons with Baltimore and signed with Toronto after the 2005 season. He had ligament replacement surgery on his left elbow in 2007. He had 32 saves and a 2.95 ERA last year for Toronto.
■ Mets: New York still doesn't know when Jose Reyes, Carlos Beltran and Carlos Delgado might return, leaving the depleted team looking for runs as the second half gets started.
Rookie outfielder Fernando Martinez won't be back anytime soon. He had surgery this week to repair a tear in his right knee and is expected to miss six to eight weeks.
The Mets called up infielder Angel Berroa from Class AAA Buffalo yesterday before opening a series at Atlanta. Berroa, 31, the 2003 AL Rookie of the Year, hit .136 with one RBI in 21 games for the New York Yankees and was released this month.
General manager Omar Minaya also said pitcher John Maine, out since early June because of pain in his right shoulder, could be ready to pitch in a minor-league game in about 10 days.
■ Diamondbacks-Rockies: The Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies plan to move their spring-training operations to the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community near Phoenix in 2011.
Under terms of an agreement announced yesterday, the tribe has agreed to build an 11,000-seat ballpark and a complex that includes 12 practice fields, training complexes and offices.
The 140-acre site is next to Scottsdale. It is believed to be the first major-league spring-training complex on tribal land. The deal is for 25 years with options to extend.
The Diamondbacks and Rockies have been planning to move their spring-training bases from Tucson after the Chicago White Sox moved to a complex in Phoenix this year.
■ Israeli league: Israeli baseball authorities say they've reached a deal giving a group of American businessmen a two-year option to operate a pro league in Israel.
The group is headed by Marvin Goldklang, a minority owner of the New York Yankees, and Jeff Rosen, an American businessman who owns the Haifa Heat in Israel's pro basketball league.
Israeli baseball official Nathan Pomerantz said that the Americans are conducting "due diligence" on the venture. He hopes the league will be ready for play in 2010 or 2011.
The announcement comes two years after a separate group of Americans tried to bring professional baseball to Israel. The Israel Baseball League folded after one season.
■ U.S.-Japan: Japan took advantage of two errors in the bottom of the 11th inning to defeat the United States 8-7 in the deciding fifth game of the college-baseball championship series yesterday in Tokyo.
Shuta Koike walked and advanced to third on a throwing error by pitcher Sonny Gray. Masayoshi Kato then hit a grounder to shortstop Christian Colon, who committed an error, allowing Koike to score the winning run.
The Americans took a 7-4 lead with three runs in the top of the ninth but the Japanese scored three in the bottom of the inning to send the game into extra innings.
■ Yankees: Owner George Steinbrenner spent three hours in his office at the team's spring-training complex yesterday and said he was feeling well.
Steinbrenner, who celebrated his 79th birthday on July 4, has kept a low profile since turning over the daily operation of the Yankees to his sons, Hank and Hal Steinbrenner, almost two years ago.
Also, Yankees left-handed reliever Damaso Marte, sidelined for 2½ months with weakness and tendinitis in his pitching shoulder, allowed one run and two hits over one inning in his first injury rehabilitation outing with the Gulf Coast League Yankees.
Marte threw 11 of 12 pitches for strikes, and reported no problems. He is scheduled to pitch in another GCL game Saturday.
The Yankees were off yesterday. They resume after the All-Star break tonight when they host the AL Central-leading Detroit Tigers.
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