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Zack Greinke Trade Puts Brewers All In

Zack Greinke has been traded to the Milwaukee Brewers. The deal will send Greinke and shortstop Yuniesky Betancourt to the Brewers in return for shortstop Alcides Escobar, pitching prospects Jake Odorizzi and Jeremy Jeffress and outfield prospect Lorenzo Cain. This is the second prospects-for-pitching swap made by the...

Zack Greinke Acquired by Brewers in 6-Player Swap

Zack Greinke was acquired by the Brewers in a six-player trade with the Royals. Greinke, Yunieski Betancourt and $2 million are headed to Milwaukee in exchange for outfielder Lorenzo Cain, shortstop Alcides Escobar and pitching prospects Jake Odorizzi and Jeremy Jeffress. "Zack Greinke is one of the top young pitchers in...

Steve Phillips' Fix My Team: Royals

Every team has a few precious months in the offseason to make tweaks to their roster and ensure that they improve in 2011. Steve Phillips has taken a team to the World Series before, and over the course of November and December he will present his plan for every major league team to get there as well. It's the fifth...

Major League Notebook: May 8

Here's what's happening around baseball on Saturday May 8, 2010: • Royals manager Trey Hillman isn't going to order Yuniesky Betancourt to change his unorthodox method for catching pop-ups, but it's going to cost the shortstop if he drops any more of them. The Royals fined Betancourt an undisclosed amount for his...

Fantasy Fill-Ins: DeJesus Leads the Way

For a number of major league teams, Mondays and Thursdays are travel days. Every Wednesday and Sunday, Fantasy Fill-Ins finds guys who should be widely available on the waiver wire and can step in for the day, helping you gain ground or hold off the pack. With only eight games on the docket for Monday, your fantasy...

Yuniesky betancourt News From the Web

05/30/12 Sanchez, Betancourt solid in rehab outings Source: MLB - Kansas City Royals Left-hander Jonathan Sanchez, coming back from biceps tendinitis, did well in his first rehabilitation start for Triple-A Omaha on Tuesday night.
05/09/12 'Fantasy Baseball Outsider' Mailbag: Should Giavotella... Source: MLB Depth Charts In today's 'Fantasy Baseball Outsider' Mailbag, I try and make sense of the Royals' decision to bring him up Johnny Giavotella to fill a part-time role.
05/07/12 Transaction Analysis: A Roach, a Padre and a Punto... Source: Baseball Prospectus By all measures, Frieri is a successful big-league reliever; by all accounts, Bud Black is a good manager.
05/04/12 Mariano Rivera tears ligament in right knee Source: San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco CA Yankees closer Mariano Rivera has a torn right knee ligament, manager Joe Girardi said Thursday night, an injury that could end Rivera's career.
05/03/12 Royals place Yuniesky Betancourt on DL, but don't call... Source: Comcast SportsNet It was odd enough that the Royals chose washed-up veteran Yuniesky Betancourt over promising prospect Johnny Giavotella for the starting second base job this spring, but now Betancourt has been placed on the disabled list with an ankle injury and Giavotella didn't even get the call to take his spot.