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Jeff Bagwell Shrugs Off Hall of Fame Snub

Jeff Bagwell said he was neither shocked nor disappointed upon learning Wednesday that he got 41.7 percent of the vote for election into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. "I'm just thank thankful I'm even on the ballot, and we'll go on from here," the former Houston Astros slugger told reporters by telephone. Bagwell,...

Eliminating Cooperstown Candidates as Easy as Picking Them

With the clock ticking toward the midnight deadline on New Year's Eve, I'm sitting here looking at my 2011 Baseball Hall of Fame ballot. And you know what? Something keeps occurring to me after more than two decades of filling out these things. This is going to be so easy. Roberto Alomar gets a check mark next to his...

Rudy Jaramillo Is Leaving the Rangers

Year in and year out the Texas Rangers are one of the best offenses in baseball, routinely finishing among the league leaders in runs scored and home runs. While the players have come and gone through the door, the one constant has always been hitting coach Rudy Jaramillo. Jaramillo has spent the last 15 seasons with the...

Juan Gonzalez Is Gone-zo From Cardinals' Camp but May Be Back

When Juan Gonzalez started his comeback earlier this spring with the St. Louis Cardinals, how did you think it was going to end? If your guess was, "with injury," well, unsurprisingly, you would've been right on. As the Cardinals are whittling their roster down for Opening Day, Gonzalez has gone home to Puerto Rico to...

Tony LaRussa Is in Denial

Yesterday Matt Watson told us all that Tony LaRussa wanted the Cardinals to consider signing Barry Bonds for this season. I wasn't exactly surprised by the news, because given LaRussa's past, he's not exactly scared by the prospect of steroids or other performance enhancing drugs.After all, this is the man that oversaw...

Juan Gonzalez News From the Web

05/23/12 Rockies Minor League Report: Nelson hits, Brothers... Source: All Things Rockies There was a bit of good-news and a lot of bad-news for Triple-A Colorado Springs in it's 9-5 loss to Oklahoma City on Tuesday.
05/22/12 School baseball: CCA knocks off Randolph Source: Cape Cod Times - Hyannis MA Biehl Longstaff knocked in the eventual game-winning run in the third inning and Cape Cod Academy gained its second in of the year with an 8-4 non-league victory over Randolph.
05/20/12 Man shot outside of southwest Oklahoma City bar Source: The Oklahoman - Oklahoma City OK A man was shot outside of a bar in southwest Oklahoma City after an altercation Saturday night, police said.
05/14/12 NAM Radio: Democracy Now's Juan Gonzalez Source: Arizona Informant - Phoenix AZ In over 35 years as an American journalist, Juan Gonzalez has done more than leave his mark -- he has played a pivotal and crucial role in changing the face of American journalism.
05/04/12 Bronx wake for tragic crash kin Source: New York City News - New York NY Heartbroken family and friends joined strangers who lined the street outside a Bronx funeral home yesterday to say goodbye to the seven tragic victims of a crash last weekend on the Bronx River Parkway.

Background on Juan Gonzalez

Juan Alberto González Vázquez (born October 20, 1969 in Vega Baja, Puerto Rico), nicknamed "Juan Gone", "Juando", and "Igor", is a former Major League Baseball right fielder.

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