3 Yomiuri Giants pitchers banned
TOKYO, Nov 10, (AP): Nippon Professional Baseball has banned three Yomiuri Giants pitchers indefinitely after they were found to have bet on baseball games.
NPB commissioner Katsuhiko Kumazaki announced the decision on Tuesday. Mark McGwire and shortstop Alan Trammell in their final year on the ballot.
There are a total of 15 first-time candidates on the 2016 Hall of Fame ballot being mailed this week to approximately 475 voting members of the Baseball Writers Association of America.
Near-miss repeat candidate Mike Piazza, who fell just short of the 75 percent of votes in the 2015 Hall of Fame class that featured Craig Biggio, Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez and John Smoltz, appears on the 2016 ballot.
Griffey Jr, Hoffman and infielders David Eckstein, Troy Glaus and Mike Lowell are newcomers. Piazza polled 69.9 percent of the electorate in 2015 and fell 28 votes shy of the required amount for election.
The only other players to be named on more than half the ballots were first baseman Jeff Bagwell (55.7) and outfielder Tim Raines (55.0).
Griffey played 22 seasons and was American League MVP in 1997 with the Seattle Mariners. He ended his career with 2,781 hits, including 630 home runs, the sixth-highest total in MLB history. A 13-time All-Star, Griffey won 10 Gold Glove Awards and seven Silver Slugger Awards.
Hoffman’s 601 career saves and 856 games finished are second only to Mariano Rivera’s MLB-record totals of 652 and 952. He played 18 seasons with the Florida Marlins, San Diego Padres and Milwaukee Brewers, finished in the top 10 of NL Cy Young Award voting four times and was the runner-up twice, in 1998 and 2006.
Cleveland Indians outfielder Michael Brantley underwent arthroscopic surgery on his right shoulder and will need 5-to-6 months to recover.
The team announced that the surgery repaired a small tear in the labrum of Brantley’s non-throwing shoulder.
New York Mets general manager Sandy Alderson will miss this week’s general manager meetings in Boca Raton, Fla., to undergo an unspecified medical procedure.
Alderson fainted last Wednesday while meeting with reporters at a press conference. another step forward in my career as a professional racing driver. I’ve had some good battles with them before and now I’m looking forward to racing with them.
“For the last two years I have always worked alone because I didn’t have a team mate for support, and to talk through the races. So it will be very helpful to have someone as experienced as Jeffrey with me this season.
“He worked with us as a coach last year and we talked a lot together. I can learn a lot from him because he’s really experienced in the Porsche GT3 Cup car.”
Added Ashkanani: “We’re both winners and we would both love to take the drivers’ title this season. But the main focus is on bringing the team title back to Al Nabooda Racing for the third time in four years and we’ll work together to achieve that.”
The 2015-16 Porsche GT3 Cup season gets underway in Bahrain from 2021 November, with the five other race weekends to follow at Reem International Circuit in Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi’s Yas Marina Circuit, Dubai Autodrome (2) and finally Bahrain again from March 4-5.
While Al Nabooda Racing had to settle for runners up spot last season after dominating the team championship for the two previous years, their haul of five outright or shared team race victories in the 2014-15 campaign was not bettered.
The team also produced the champion driver for the second time in three years in Clemens Schmid, who has since moved on. conversation following up Mexico’s successful return to Formula One after a 23year absence.
“It creates an opportunity for European and Asian fans to come to this part of the world and in the space of 10 days see two races,” said the chief executive of Corporacion Interamericana de
“Our target is very clear — to win back the team title and in doing that make sure that one of our drivers takes the individual championship,” said Vijay Rao, Al Nabooda Racing Team
Manager and General Manager, Al Nabooda Automobiles LLC. “It will certainly not be easy, but we believe Zaid and Jeffrey can form a winning combination.”