Former Chicago Cubs pitcher Yu Darvish seen here pitching on Oct 2, 2020 in game 2 of the NLWCS in Chicago against the Miami Marlins. Darvish signed this week with the San Diego Padres shoring up their pitching staff (AP News photo)
On That’s Amaury’s News and Commentary podcast:
#1 The San Francisco Chronicle’s Susan Slusser will leaving the Oakland A’s beat to work the San Francisco Giants beat vacated by Henry Schulman who is retiring and Matt Kawahara will be taking over the A’s beat at the Chronicle.
#2 Amaury, Yu Darvish was surprised that he was dealt from Chicago to San Diego. Although many expected the deal to go down, Darvish really like being in Chicago and really wanted to be part of the Cubs organization.
#3 The Padres general manager AJ Preller moved so fast on the deal to get Darvish from the Cubs that Darvish first learned about on twitter. Darvish upon learning about the deal said “I’m very happy to be joining a team as strong as the Padres”
#4 The Boston Red Sox have hired the first black woman in baseball history to coach in their minor league system Bianca Smith. Smith joins baseball’s first woman coach San Francisco coach Alyssa Nakken and New York Yankees coach Rachel Balkovec as the three female coaches in baseball.
#5 The Miami Marlins signed left hand pitcher Ross Detwiler to a one year deal worth $850,000. Detwiler’s signing is intended to bolster Miami’s bullpen. The Marlins lost most of their team to Covid-19 issues last season and still remained competitive. Detwiler will be an added plus to the Marlins bullpen.
#6 The San Diego Padres are not shy at all they signed Blake Snell from the Tampa Bay Rays. Snell was the pitcher that was throwing a shutout in the World Series before being pulled out of the game by Ray manager Kevin Cash. Snell was 3.24 ERA in 2020 and was 3.o3 in the post season.
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