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| Astros coaching staff to return in 2003 |
MLB Baseball |
10/23/2002 |
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| Houston, TX (MySportsbook) - The Houston Astros will have their entire coaching staff back for the 2003 campaign, the team announced on Tuesday. The staff has agreed to new one-year contracts, while manager Jimy Williams is entering the second year of a three-year deal he signed before the 2002 season. Williams replaced Larry Dierker, who was fired despite leading the Astros to the playoffs in four out of five seasons. Hitting coach Harry Spilman, pitching coach Burt Hooton, first base coach Jose Cruz, thi |
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| Tigers add pitching coach Cluck to staff |
MLB Baseball |
10/18/2002 |
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| nstructor last season, agreed to a three-year contract with the Tigers. The 56-year-old Cluck returns to a role he last held from 1996-98 when he was pitching coach for the Oakland Athletics under manager Art Howe. He also served as pitching coach for the Houston Astros from 1990-93. Prior to joining the Rangers this past season, he was a major league scout for the Montreal Expos (1999-2001). New manager Alan Trammell already added Kirk Gibson, Lance Parrish and Bruce Fields to his staff earlier in the week. |
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| Art Howe to stay in Oakland |
MLB Baseball |
10/18/2002 |
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| A's since 1996 and Oakland has made it to the postseason three straight seasons. However, the Athletics have failed to advance past the first round each time. They dropped the final two games of the best-of-five ALDS against Minnesota this season after losing to the Yankees in 2000 and 2001. The 55-year-old Howe, who is the third-winningest manager in Athletics' history behind Connie Mack's 3,627 victories and Tony La Russa's 798, has a 600-533 record in Oakland. Howe managed the Houston Astros from 1989-93. |
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| Pittsburgh Pirates |
MLB Baseball Transaction |
10/11/2002 |
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| Released outfielder Adrian Brown; claimed reliever Jim Mann off waivers from the Houston Astros. Fired first base-coach Tommy Sandt and catching instructor Russ Nixon. |
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| Astros decline option on Shane Reynolds |
MLB Baseball |
10/11/2002 |
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| Houston, TX (MySportsbook) - The Houston Astros declined to pick up the option of starting pitcher Shane Reynolds on Thursday, making him a free agent. Reynolds, 34, underwent season-ending back surgery in June. In 13 starts he went 3-6 with a 4.86 earned run average. Back problems limited him to 63 starts over the last three years. The right-hander made the National League All-Star team in 2000 but missed most of the second half of the year with degenerative disks in his lower back. His best season came i |
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| Pirates release Brown |
MLB Baseball |
10/10/2002 |
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| riple-A Nashville of the Pacific Coast League this year. He has spent all six of his major league seasons with the Pirates, and has a career average of .261 with 11 homers and 83 RBI. The Pirates also announced they claimed righthanded pitcher Jim Mann off of waivers from the Houston Astros. The 27-year-old pitcher spent most of last season in Triple-A New Orleans. He appeared in 17 games with the Astros with an 0-1 record and 4.09 ERA, and has also spent time in his three-year career with the New York Mets. |
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| Hernandez hopes to keep Giants alive |
MLB Baseball |
10/06/2002 |
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| fthander earned the Game 1 nod after going 18-11 with a 2.96 earned run average during the regular season. Glavine started 16 games on the road in 2002, compiling a 9-5 record with a 2.69 ERA and one complete game. A year ago in the NLDS against the Houston Astros, the two-time Cy Young Award winner tossed eight scoreless innings to lead Atlanta to a 1-0 victory in Game 2 and sent his club home with a commanding two-games-to-none lead. Glavine has started eight games in his career in the NL Division Series, g |
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| Maddux battles Schmidt in Game 3 at Pac Bell |
MLB Baseball |
10/05/2002 |
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| Braves manager Bobby Cox to use Kevin Millwood and push Maddux back a few days. The veteran righthander did not earn a decision in his only NLDS start a year ago after surrendering three runs -- two earned -- on four hits in six innings against the Houston Astros in Game 1. He entered the playoffs last year having dropped his final four decisions. This season, the four-time Cy Young Award winner enters the postseason with a 5-1 mark and a 2.30 ERA in his last seven outings. The biggest difference from this O |
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| MLB Playoff Preview: San Francisco versus Atlanta |
MLB Baseball |
10/01/2002 |
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| o of Glavine, who will start Game 1, Maddux and Millwood is easier said than done. After going 18-11 with a 2.96 earned run average, the 36-year-old Glavine was awarded the honor of opening the best-of-five series. A year ago in the NLDS against the Houston Astros, the southpaw tossed eight scoreless innings to lead the Braves to a 1-0 victory in Game 2 and send his club back home with a commanding two-games-to-none lead. Glavine has started seven games in his career in the Division Series, going 3-1 with a 3 |
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| Diamondbacks begin title defense |
MLB Baseball |
10/01/2002 |
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| stseason. However, he is just 2-6 with a 4.05 earned run average in the Division Series, with both wins coming while he was a member of the Seattle Mariners in 1995. Matt Morris counters for the Cardinals, who won the NL Central by 13 games over the Houston Astros with a 97-65 record. Morris (17-9, 3.42) defeated the Milwaukee Brewers on Thursday in his last trip to the rubber, allowing one run six hits over seven innings at Busch Stadium. He walked one and fanned four. The victory snapped the righthander's p |
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