Gifford remarked that Short and his late spouse, Nancy Dolman, "have one of the greatest marriages of anybody in show business." She then asked him, "How many years are you in love with her now?"
NEW YORK - Kathie Lee Gifford had a very awkward moment with Martin Short on the Today show Wednesday, when she complimented him on his marriage, not realizing that his wife died a year and a half ago.
Short was on the Today show to promote his upcoming film, Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted.
Following a commercial break, Gifford informed viewers that Short told her that his wife died of ovarian cancer in 2010. She apologized both on the show and on Twitter.
She tweeted, "I send my sincerest apologies to @MartinShort and his family. He handled situation w/enormous grace and kindness and I'm so grateful."
Incidentally, @MartinShort is not the actor's Twitter handle.
Short didn't correct Gifford, answering, "We...married 36 years."
Gifford replied, "But you're still like in love?"
Short said, "Madly in love, madly in love."
When Gifford asked him, "Why?" Short joked, "Cute. I'm cute."
Jumat, 01 Juni 2012
Tropical Disease Chagas, Dubbed by Docs as ‘The New AIDS’
The disease kills about 20,000 annually, but like HIV, individuals can live with Chagas, successfully treating it or simply carrying it without ever curing it. 11 percent of pregnant women in Latin America are infected with Chagas, which disproportionally affects poor people. The disease is easily transmitted from mother to child and “about a quarter of its victims eventually will develop enlarged hearts or intestines, which can fail or burst, causing sudden death.” Finally, the medicine required to treat symptoms of Chagas is “extremely toxic.”
“More than 8 million people have been infected by Chagas, most of them in Latin and Central America. But more than 300,000 live in the United States,” Yahoo! News reports. Chagas is a disease that is spreading rapidly, so much so that the Public Library of Science’s Neglected Tropical Diseases journal called the spread of the disease “reminiscent of the early years of HIV.” The disease is transmitted to humans by “the kissing bug,” which likes to bite people on the face.
“More than 8 million people have been infected by Chagas, most of them in Latin and Central America. But more than 300,000 live in the United States,” Yahoo! News reports. Chagas is a disease that is spreading rapidly, so much so that the Public Library of Science’s Neglected Tropical Diseases journal called the spread of the disease “reminiscent of the early years of HIV.” The disease is transmitted to humans by “the kissing bug,” which likes to bite people on the face.
Martin Short speaks out after Kathie Lee Gifford asks about dead wife
Gifford referenced the actor's wife, Nancy Dolman, during an interview Wednesday on "Today," without knowing Dolman had died in 2010 of ovarian cancer at the age of 58.
NEW YORK -- Martin Short said Thursday he believed there was "no ill will intended" when Kathie Lee Gifford asked about the comedian's marriage, seemingly unaware he was a widower.
The actor quietly replied, "We, ah, married 36 years."
"But you're still, like, in love," Gifford continued.
"Madly in love," he replied.
"He and Nancy have one of the greatest marriages of anybody in show business. How many years now for you guys?" Gifford asked on the fourth hour of the NBC program she co-hosts with Hoda Kotb.
After Wednesday's show, Gifford tweeted, "I send my sincerest apologies to Martin Short and his family. He handled situation w/enormous grace and kindness and I'm so grateful."
"And I think it's nice to aspire to be that way," he added.
Short, 62, and Dolman were married for 30 years and had three children.
Gifford was widely criticized for the gaffe, but Short told E! News, "I think that it's live television and people make mistakes and there's no ill will intended."
NEW YORK -- Martin Short said Thursday he believed there was "no ill will intended" when Kathie Lee Gifford asked about the comedian's marriage, seemingly unaware he was a widower.
The actor quietly replied, "We, ah, married 36 years."
"But you're still, like, in love," Gifford continued.
"Madly in love," he replied.
"He and Nancy have one of the greatest marriages of anybody in show business. How many years now for you guys?" Gifford asked on the fourth hour of the NBC program she co-hosts with Hoda Kotb.
After Wednesday's show, Gifford tweeted, "I send my sincerest apologies to Martin Short and his family. He handled situation w/enormous grace and kindness and I'm so grateful."
"And I think it's nice to aspire to be that way," he added.
Short, 62, and Dolman were married for 30 years and had three children.
Gifford was widely criticized for the gaffe, but Short told E! News, "I think that it's live television and people make mistakes and there's no ill will intended."
Selasa, 29 Mei 2012
Roy Oswalt To Rangers: Texas Reaches Minor League Deal With Free-Agent Pitcher
The Rangers signed Japanese star Yu Darvish in January, a month after C.J. Wilson left in free agency. Plus, the Rangers had already decided to move hard-throwing closer Neftali Feliz from the bullpen into the starting rotation.
ARLINGTON, Texas -- The Texas Rangers agreed to a minor league deal with free-agent pitcher Roy Oswalt with the anticipation that he will join the rotation within a few weeks.
Assuming Oswalt passes a physical, he is expected to join Triple-A Round Rock at some point this week.
The deal with Oswalt came on the same day the Phillies and AL West rival Los Angeles Angels put their ace pitchers on the disabled list.
"He's been around a long time, he's had a good career and obviously it's still going on," Hamilton said. "I'm sure just like anybody else, he'll come into the clubhouse and fit right in just like anybody else would. We'll make sure he does. It should be exciting."
The deal was announced in the middle of the Rangers' game Tuesday night against Seattle.
The three-time All-Star was interested in joining the two-time defending American League champions during the offseason, but the Rangers were then set with their starting rotation.
Oswalt last pitched against the Rangers on June 27, 2010, a night when slugger Josh Hamilton hit a homer several rows into the upper deck in right-center field way above the Texas bullpen. The drive was measured at 490 feet, the longest home run ever hit at Rangers Ballpark.
Oswalt likely will make several minor league starts before joining the Texas rotation. Rangers officials went to Oswalt's home in Mississippi two weeks ago to watch him pitch.
Several teams had interest in Oswalt during the winter and in recent weeks. He had decided to wait until the right situation for him.
During his 10 seasons with the Houston Astros, Oswalt had connections with Ryan, the Hall of Famer pitcher who played and worked for both teams.
In 11 major league seasons with Houston (2001-10) and Philadelphia (2010-11), the 34-year-old Oswalt has a 159-93 record with a 3.21 ERA in 339 career games.
Oswalt had two stints on the disabled list last season because of lower back inflammation. He went 9-10 with a 3.69 ERA in 23 starts for the Phillies. His 139 innings pitched were his lowest total since 2003.
In eight career starts at Rangers Ballpark, Oswalt is 2-5 with a 4.78 ERA. He lost his last five starts there, but those were against the power-packed Texas lineup that would now be playing behind him.
Hamilton, talking before the team had confirmed the deal, said Oswalt is a good pitcher that would be a good mix with the Rangers.
But Feliz was put on the 15-day disabled list May 21 with right elbow inflammation and is not even expected to pick up a baseball again until late June. Scott Feldman, a 17-game winner as a starter in 2009 but who has since been primarily a long reliever because of an injury, made his second start in Feliz's spot Tuesday night.
The Phillies put two-time Cy Young winner Roy Halladay on the disabled list and he'll be out of the rotation for six to eight weeks because of a strained right shoulder. Angels starter Jered Weaver was put on the DL with a lower-back injury, likely forcing last season's AL Cy Young runner-up to miss at least two starts.
ARLINGTON, Texas -- The Texas Rangers agreed to a minor league deal with free-agent pitcher Roy Oswalt with the anticipation that he will join the rotation within a few weeks.
Assuming Oswalt passes a physical, he is expected to join Triple-A Round Rock at some point this week.
The deal with Oswalt came on the same day the Phillies and AL West rival Los Angeles Angels put their ace pitchers on the disabled list.
"He's been around a long time, he's had a good career and obviously it's still going on," Hamilton said. "I'm sure just like anybody else, he'll come into the clubhouse and fit right in just like anybody else would. We'll make sure he does. It should be exciting."
The deal was announced in the middle of the Rangers' game Tuesday night against Seattle.
The three-time All-Star was interested in joining the two-time defending American League champions during the offseason, but the Rangers were then set with their starting rotation.
Oswalt last pitched against the Rangers on June 27, 2010, a night when slugger Josh Hamilton hit a homer several rows into the upper deck in right-center field way above the Texas bullpen. The drive was measured at 490 feet, the longest home run ever hit at Rangers Ballpark.
Oswalt likely will make several minor league starts before joining the Texas rotation. Rangers officials went to Oswalt's home in Mississippi two weeks ago to watch him pitch.
Several teams had interest in Oswalt during the winter and in recent weeks. He had decided to wait until the right situation for him.
During his 10 seasons with the Houston Astros, Oswalt had connections with Ryan, the Hall of Famer pitcher who played and worked for both teams.
In 11 major league seasons with Houston (2001-10) and Philadelphia (2010-11), the 34-year-old Oswalt has a 159-93 record with a 3.21 ERA in 339 career games.
Oswalt had two stints on the disabled list last season because of lower back inflammation. He went 9-10 with a 3.69 ERA in 23 starts for the Phillies. His 139 innings pitched were his lowest total since 2003.
In eight career starts at Rangers Ballpark, Oswalt is 2-5 with a 4.78 ERA. He lost his last five starts there, but those were against the power-packed Texas lineup that would now be playing behind him.
Hamilton, talking before the team had confirmed the deal, said Oswalt is a good pitcher that would be a good mix with the Rangers.
But Feliz was put on the 15-day disabled list May 21 with right elbow inflammation and is not even expected to pick up a baseball again until late June. Scott Feldman, a 17-game winner as a starter in 2009 but who has since been primarily a long reliever because of an injury, made his second start in Feliz's spot Tuesday night.
The Phillies put two-time Cy Young winner Roy Halladay on the disabled list and he'll be out of the rotation for six to eight weeks because of a strained right shoulder. Angels starter Jered Weaver was put on the DL with a lower-back injury, likely forcing last season's AL Cy Young runner-up to miss at least two starts.
Texas-sized impact of Oswalt’s move
Oswalt’s addition can improve those odds only minimally. But this isn’t about simply reaching the postseason, either for the Rangers or for the longtime Astro, who gets the added benefit of returning to the state where he’s spent most of his career, one relatively close to his Mississippi residence. Texas has won back-to-back American League pennants, but fallen to first the Giants and then the Cardinals in the World Series; last October, the Rangers were one pitch away from a dogpile before David Freese’s two-run triple tied Game 6 in the bottom of the ninth inning. Oswalt has never won a world championship; he pitched for Houston in the 2005 World Series and joined the Phillies in 2010 — a point when they were coming off back-to-back pennants — with an eye toward that elusive ring, but Philadelphia was bounced by the eventual NL champions in both years. By hitching a ride with the 2012 Rangers, he’s poised to take what may be his last shot.
Ted Lilly had hit the disabled list. Roy Halladay was headed there. So is Jered Weaver. On a day when it appeared Roy Oswalt’s leverage was at its absolute maximum due to a sudden wave of injuries to key starters on contending teams, the 34-year-old free agent chose the path of least resistance, signing with the Rangers Tuesday afternoon for $5 million in guaranteed salary plus another $1 million in incentives.
In doing so, Oswalt joins the team with the AL’s best record (31-18, for a .633 winning percentage), the majors’ best run differential (+99, 30 ahead of any other team) and its largest division lead (6 1/2 games up in the AL West, tied with the NL West-leading Dodgers). The Baseball Prospectus Playoff Odds Report, which uses run differentials, PECOTA player forecasts and rest-of-season schedule as its inputs, estimates Texas’ chance to reach the postseason at an astronomical 98.8 percent, 11 percentage points higher than any other team, and 33 points higher than any other AL team.
Though he ranked among the NL’s top pitchers for most of his 10-year run with the Astros, Oswalt isn’t the ace he once was. Last year, he spent nine weeks on the disabled list due to a lower back strain and a bulging disc, and finished with just 23 starts and 139 innings, his lowest totals since 2003. His 3.69 ERA was his highest since 2009, with a steep drop in his strikeout rate — to 6.0, down from 8.2 in 2010 — offering an ominous sign, backed up by an erosion in his average fastball velocity, from 94.0 MPH in 2009 to 93.5 in 2010 to 92.3 in 2011. In 2010, 47 percent of his strikes came either looking or swinging, while 27 percent of them came via balls in play; last year the looking and swinging dipped to 39 percent, while the in-play ones rose to 32 percent. Accompanied by a jump in BABIP from .276 to .321 — something that may have been related to the quality of contact made by opposing hitters — his ERA rose by nearly a run, from 2.76 in 2010 to 3.69 in ’11.
Thus it’s quite possible the Phils will need to go outside the organization to patch the rotation, and even then, they’ll face the dual problems of a system depleted by big trades in recent years — including, ironically, ones for Halladay and Oswalt — and a payroll that began the year as the game’s third-highest at $172.1 million, not far from the $178 million luxury tax threshold. Pending free agents on noncontenders such as the Cubs’ Ryan Dempster – to say nothing of Zack Greinke or even Shaun Marcum, should the Brewers wave the white flag — won’t come cheap, while lower-upside options such as the Diamondbacks’ Joe Saunders don’t offer much bang for the buck. In a crowded NL East fray where they’re already running fourth, the Phillies are suddenly in serious trouble.
Oswalt won’t be the staff ace in Texas, but at least he’ll bulk up the Rangers’ rotation. Individually, while all five of their starters have been acceptable, none have dominated. Feliz’s high walk and homer rates (4.9 and 1.1 per nine, respectively) and low BABIP (.213) made his 3.16 ERA unsustainable. Darvish has the rotation’s best ERA at 3.25, but his gaudy 9.7 strikeouts per nine are offset by an astronomical walk rate of 5.2 per nine, and his 50 percent quality start rate is the lowest on the staff, one percentage point below the league average. Lewis is walking a minuscule 1.2 per nine en route to the league’s best strikeout-to-walk ratio of 5.7, but his 14 homers (1.9 per nine) are a league high. With four homers in his last two starts pushing his homer rate to 1.1 per nine, Holland is suddenly dealing with a gopher infestation of his own, while Harrison has by far the unit’s lowest strikeout rate at 5.8 per nine, a potentially serious problem unless his staff-high .322 BABIP regresses. Feldman has allowed nine runs in 12 1/3 innings over three starts while striking out fewer than he’s walked, which isn’t a recipe for success.
That depth took a serious hit when the team lost Feliz earlier this month due to a sprained ulnar collateral ligament, which could sideline him until the All-Star break. For a team that dragged its feet when it came to moving the youngster out of the bullpen — a transition that took two seasons — it was hardly a surprise to see the Rangers lacking the will to dismantle their late-game relief corps by restoring Ogando to the rotation, where he posted a 3.56 ERA in 29 starts last year.
Without Oswalt, the Rangers’ rotation wasn’t exactly broken. The unit’s 3.78 ERA ranks third in the AL, no small accomplishment for a team pitching in the league’s top hitting environment, but it’s ahead of their peripherals. They’re fourth in strikeout rate (7.8 per nine), but just eighth in home run rate (1.1 per nine) and 10th in unintentional walk rate (3.2 per nine) — the areas over which pitchers have the most control.
Meanwhile, the combination of Oswalt’s decision and Halladay’s injury leaves the Phillies’ rotation depleted and without its most obvious outside option for reinforcement. Halladay was diagnosed with a Grade I/Grade II strain of the latissimus dorsi, and is expected to miss 6-8 weeks, meaning that he won’t be back until after the All-Star break. With Vance Worley sidelined due to inflammation caused by bone chips in his elbow and not expected back until late next month, the Phillies are already calling Kyle Kendrick’s number every five days; the 27-year-old righty has 104 career starts under his belt, but he’s homer prone (1.2 HR/9 career), doesn’t miss many bats (4.2 K/9 career, 5.2 this year), and has a massive platoon split (.263/.303/.410 against righties, .304/.372/.506 for lefties). Retreads waiting in the wings at Triple-A, namely David Bush, Pat Misch and Scott Elarton, pitched their way out of the majors years ago, while their top minor league starter, Tyler Cloyd, is more suspect than prospect, having failed to crack the Baseball America top 30 list in an organization that ranked 27th out of 30 itself.
It will be late June before Oswalt is ready to pitch in the majors, meaning more Feldman, or perhaps a Triple-A starter, though none of the rotation regulars at Round Rock has an ERA below 4.67, and the two with ERAs below 5.00 (Zach Jackson and Greg Reynolds) have been blowtorched for a combined 6.59 ERA in 199 1/3 major league innings. Once he does join the Rangers, Oswalt will be pitching in the AL for the first time in his career, and in a ballpark where he’s hardly thrived; in eight starts totaling 52 2/3 innings from 2001-2010, he was lit up for a 4.78 ERA while allowing 1.5 homers per nine. That’s a small sample, roughly a quarter of a season, but it doesn’t change the fact that Rangers Ballpark in Arlington is a homer haven for both lefties and righties, increasing big flies by 31 and 23 percent, respectively, over the past three seasons according to The Bill James Handbook 2012.
At the outset of the season, the Rangers enjoyed enviable rotation depth. With the signing of Japanese free agent Yu Darvish and the shift of closer Neftali Feliz to the rotation, they had repeated the formula that helped turn them into pennant winners two years ago, stockpiling starters who could miss more bats than the pitchers they were replacing. With Colby Lewis, Derek Holland and Matt Harrison also holding down jobs in the starting five, the team could afford to offset Feliz’s move by returning Alexi Ogando to a setup role, and keeping Scott Feldman, who made a solid late-season return from microfracture surgery, in a swingman role.
Ted Lilly had hit the disabled list. Roy Halladay was headed there. So is Jered Weaver. On a day when it appeared Roy Oswalt’s leverage was at its absolute maximum due to a sudden wave of injuries to key starters on contending teams, the 34-year-old free agent chose the path of least resistance, signing with the Rangers Tuesday afternoon for $5 million in guaranteed salary plus another $1 million in incentives.
In doing so, Oswalt joins the team with the AL’s best record (31-18, for a .633 winning percentage), the majors’ best run differential (+99, 30 ahead of any other team) and its largest division lead (6 1/2 games up in the AL West, tied with the NL West-leading Dodgers). The Baseball Prospectus Playoff Odds Report, which uses run differentials, PECOTA player forecasts and rest-of-season schedule as its inputs, estimates Texas’ chance to reach the postseason at an astronomical 98.8 percent, 11 percentage points higher than any other team, and 33 points higher than any other AL team.
Though he ranked among the NL’s top pitchers for most of his 10-year run with the Astros, Oswalt isn’t the ace he once was. Last year, he spent nine weeks on the disabled list due to a lower back strain and a bulging disc, and finished with just 23 starts and 139 innings, his lowest totals since 2003. His 3.69 ERA was his highest since 2009, with a steep drop in his strikeout rate — to 6.0, down from 8.2 in 2010 — offering an ominous sign, backed up by an erosion in his average fastball velocity, from 94.0 MPH in 2009 to 93.5 in 2010 to 92.3 in 2011. In 2010, 47 percent of his strikes came either looking or swinging, while 27 percent of them came via balls in play; last year the looking and swinging dipped to 39 percent, while the in-play ones rose to 32 percent. Accompanied by a jump in BABIP from .276 to .321 — something that may have been related to the quality of contact made by opposing hitters — his ERA rose by nearly a run, from 2.76 in 2010 to 3.69 in ’11.
Thus it’s quite possible the Phils will need to go outside the organization to patch the rotation, and even then, they’ll face the dual problems of a system depleted by big trades in recent years — including, ironically, ones for Halladay and Oswalt — and a payroll that began the year as the game’s third-highest at $172.1 million, not far from the $178 million luxury tax threshold. Pending free agents on noncontenders such as the Cubs’ Ryan Dempster – to say nothing of Zack Greinke or even Shaun Marcum, should the Brewers wave the white flag — won’t come cheap, while lower-upside options such as the Diamondbacks’ Joe Saunders don’t offer much bang for the buck. In a crowded NL East fray where they’re already running fourth, the Phillies are suddenly in serious trouble.
Oswalt won’t be the staff ace in Texas, but at least he’ll bulk up the Rangers’ rotation. Individually, while all five of their starters have been acceptable, none have dominated. Feliz’s high walk and homer rates (4.9 and 1.1 per nine, respectively) and low BABIP (.213) made his 3.16 ERA unsustainable. Darvish has the rotation’s best ERA at 3.25, but his gaudy 9.7 strikeouts per nine are offset by an astronomical walk rate of 5.2 per nine, and his 50 percent quality start rate is the lowest on the staff, one percentage point below the league average. Lewis is walking a minuscule 1.2 per nine en route to the league’s best strikeout-to-walk ratio of 5.7, but his 14 homers (1.9 per nine) are a league high. With four homers in his last two starts pushing his homer rate to 1.1 per nine, Holland is suddenly dealing with a gopher infestation of his own, while Harrison has by far the unit’s lowest strikeout rate at 5.8 per nine, a potentially serious problem unless his staff-high .322 BABIP regresses. Feldman has allowed nine runs in 12 1/3 innings over three starts while striking out fewer than he’s walked, which isn’t a recipe for success.
That depth took a serious hit when the team lost Feliz earlier this month due to a sprained ulnar collateral ligament, which could sideline him until the All-Star break. For a team that dragged its feet when it came to moving the youngster out of the bullpen — a transition that took two seasons — it was hardly a surprise to see the Rangers lacking the will to dismantle their late-game relief corps by restoring Ogando to the rotation, where he posted a 3.56 ERA in 29 starts last year.
Without Oswalt, the Rangers’ rotation wasn’t exactly broken. The unit’s 3.78 ERA ranks third in the AL, no small accomplishment for a team pitching in the league’s top hitting environment, but it’s ahead of their peripherals. They’re fourth in strikeout rate (7.8 per nine), but just eighth in home run rate (1.1 per nine) and 10th in unintentional walk rate (3.2 per nine) — the areas over which pitchers have the most control.
Meanwhile, the combination of Oswalt’s decision and Halladay’s injury leaves the Phillies’ rotation depleted and without its most obvious outside option for reinforcement. Halladay was diagnosed with a Grade I/Grade II strain of the latissimus dorsi, and is expected to miss 6-8 weeks, meaning that he won’t be back until after the All-Star break. With Vance Worley sidelined due to inflammation caused by bone chips in his elbow and not expected back until late next month, the Phillies are already calling Kyle Kendrick’s number every five days; the 27-year-old righty has 104 career starts under his belt, but he’s homer prone (1.2 HR/9 career), doesn’t miss many bats (4.2 K/9 career, 5.2 this year), and has a massive platoon split (.263/.303/.410 against righties, .304/.372/.506 for lefties). Retreads waiting in the wings at Triple-A, namely David Bush, Pat Misch and Scott Elarton, pitched their way out of the majors years ago, while their top minor league starter, Tyler Cloyd, is more suspect than prospect, having failed to crack the Baseball America top 30 list in an organization that ranked 27th out of 30 itself.
It will be late June before Oswalt is ready to pitch in the majors, meaning more Feldman, or perhaps a Triple-A starter, though none of the rotation regulars at Round Rock has an ERA below 4.67, and the two with ERAs below 5.00 (Zach Jackson and Greg Reynolds) have been blowtorched for a combined 6.59 ERA in 199 1/3 major league innings. Once he does join the Rangers, Oswalt will be pitching in the AL for the first time in his career, and in a ballpark where he’s hardly thrived; in eight starts totaling 52 2/3 innings from 2001-2010, he was lit up for a 4.78 ERA while allowing 1.5 homers per nine. That’s a small sample, roughly a quarter of a season, but it doesn’t change the fact that Rangers Ballpark in Arlington is a homer haven for both lefties and righties, increasing big flies by 31 and 23 percent, respectively, over the past three seasons according to The Bill James Handbook 2012.
At the outset of the season, the Rangers enjoyed enviable rotation depth. With the signing of Japanese free agent Yu Darvish and the shift of closer Neftali Feliz to the rotation, they had repeated the formula that helped turn them into pennant winners two years ago, stockpiling starters who could miss more bats than the pitchers they were replacing. With Colby Lewis, Derek Holland and Matt Harrison also holding down jobs in the starting five, the team could afford to offset Feliz’s move by returning Alexi Ogando to a setup role, and keeping Scott Feldman, who made a solid late-season return from microfracture surgery, in a swingman role.
Rangers To Sign Roy Oswalt
The Rangers stayed in contact with Oswalt this past offseason, but didn't have an opening in their rotation at the time and none of his other suitors locked him up. Once Neftali Feliz hit the disabled list, an opening emerged in the rotation and GM Jon Daniels struck. Rangers CEO Nolan Ryan and pitching coach Mike Maddux appear to have helped convince Oswalt to pitch in Texas.
If the Rangers have five healthy starters when Feliz returns from the disabled list, they could use him out of the bullpen and rely on a rotation of Oswalt, Yu Darvish, Colby Lewis, Derek Holland and Matt Harrison.
Oswalt made 23 starts and completed 139 innings for the Phillies last year, posting a 3.69 ERA with 6.0 K/9, 2.1 BB/9 and a 45.1% ground ball rate. However, the 34-year-old's average fastball velocity dropped to 91.4 mph, and he had two back-related stints on the disabled list.
The Rangers have agreed to sign Roy Oswalt, Gerry Fraley of the Dallas Morning News reports. The right-hander will earn a guaranteed $5MM salary plus $1MM in incentives, Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com reports (on Twitter). The Rangers required ownership approval to sign Oswalt, a Bob Garber client.
If the Rangers have five healthy starters when Feliz returns from the disabled list, they could use him out of the bullpen and rely on a rotation of Oswalt, Yu Darvish, Colby Lewis, Derek Holland and Matt Harrison.
Oswalt made 23 starts and completed 139 innings for the Phillies last year, posting a 3.69 ERA with 6.0 K/9, 2.1 BB/9 and a 45.1% ground ball rate. However, the 34-year-old's average fastball velocity dropped to 91.4 mph, and he had two back-related stints on the disabled list.
The Rangers have agreed to sign Roy Oswalt, Gerry Fraley of the Dallas Morning News reports. The right-hander will earn a guaranteed $5MM salary plus $1MM in incentives, Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com reports (on Twitter). The Rangers required ownership approval to sign Oswalt, a Bob Garber client.
Luke Bryan gets ‘Drunk’ on ‘The Bachelorette’
“I was the musical guest that ended her date one night,” Bryan says of his involvement in the show. “They took a turn on a street and there was a stage on it with me singing (current single) ‘Drunk on You,’ so it should be a pretty cool moment in the show.”
Bryan says that he’s excited to be on the show and that “Drunk on You” will be in “all those households.”
Country stars are becoming commonplace on this season of The Bachelorette, which is filmed on location in North Carolina to accommodate this season’s eligible lady Emily Maynard. Gloriana was on the reality show last week, and Luke Bryan will perform tonight.
“Hopefully it takes me to the top of the game,” he says. “It’s going to go full all out, and we’ll get after it.”
Next year, the singer hopes to expand his reach even further — he’s going to embark on his first headlining tour with plans to play arenas and amphitheaters.
Bryan says that he’s excited to be on the show and that “Drunk on You” will be in “all those households.”
Country stars are becoming commonplace on this season of The Bachelorette, which is filmed on location in North Carolina to accommodate this season’s eligible lady Emily Maynard. Gloriana was on the reality show last week, and Luke Bryan will perform tonight.
“Hopefully it takes me to the top of the game,” he says. “It’s going to go full all out, and we’ll get after it.”
Next year, the singer hopes to expand his reach even further — he’s going to embark on his first headlining tour with plans to play arenas and amphitheaters.
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