League News - General
News for 2002
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SIGNINGS:
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April 5: Baltimore signed John Franco
CUTS:
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April 1: Boston cut Calvin Pickering
April 1: Boston cut Carlos Baerga
April 1: Boston cut Timothy Young
April 1: Boston cut Jay Yennaco
April 1: Boston cut Marty McLeary
April 1: Boston cut Michael Kusiewicz
April 1: Boston cut Gary DiSarcina
April 1: Boston cut Christopher Warren
April 1: Boston cut Carl Thomas
April 1: Boston cut Jamie Brewington
April 1: Boston cut Chris Haney
April 1: Boston cut Don Wengert
April 1: Boston cut Brian Wiese
April 1: Boston cut Bryant Nelson
April 1: Boston cut Rick Nadeau
April 1: Boston cut Todd Betts
April 1: Boston cut Shane Heams
April 1: Boston cut Carlos Rodriguez
April 1: Boston cut Damon Buford
April 1: Boston cut Jeff Abbott
April 1: New York (AL) cut Gerald Williams
April 1: New York (AL) cut Kurt Bierek
April 1: New York (AL) cut Joshua Loggins
April 1: New York (AL) cut Edison Reynoso
April 1: New York (AL) cut Dave Walling
April 1: New York (AL) cut Kevin Gibbs
April 1: New York (AL) cut Chris Widger
April 1: New York (AL) cut Chad Fonville
April 1: New York (AL) cut Shane Cronin
April 1: New York (AL) cut Domingo Jean
April 1: New York (AL) cut Adam Roller
April 1: New York (AL) cut Ryan Bradley
April 1: New York (AL) cut Alex Pacheco
April 1: New York (AL) cut Brett Weber
April 1: New York (AL) cut Oscar Martinez
April 1: New York (AL) cut Jason Pierson
April 1: New York (AL) cut F.P. Santangelo
April 1: Toronto cut Mike Sirotka
April 1: Toronto cut Jarrod Kingrey
April 1: Toronto cut Mark Hendrickson
April 1: Toronto cut Brian Lesher
April 1: Toronto cut Kevin Cash
April 1: Toronto cut Pedro Swann
April 1: Tampa Bay cut Kevin McGlinchy
April 1: Tampa Bay cut Brooks Badeaux
April 1: Tampa Bay cut Cecilio Garibaldi
April 1: Tampa Bay cut Ed Kofler
April 1: Tampa Bay cut Christopher Cumberland
April 1: Tampa Bay cut Terry Jones
April 1: Tampa Bay cut Andy Sheets
April 1: Tampa Bay cut Jim Magrane
April 1: Tampa Bay cut Rick Croushore
April 1: Tampa Bay cut Alex Santos
April 1: Tampa Bay cut Paul Hoover
April 1: Tampa Bay cut Frank Moore
April 1: Tampa Bay cut Wilmy Caceres
April 1: Tampa Bay cut Matt Quatraro
April 1: Tampa Bay cut Brian Hunter
April 1: Tampa Bay cut Jared Sandberg
April 1: Chicago (AL) cut Corey Lee
April 1: Chicago (AL) cut Chris Saunders
April 1: Chicago (AL) cut Richard Battersby
April 1: Chicago (AL) cut Steven Schrenk
April 1: Chicago (AL) cut Darron Ingram
April 1: Chicago (AL) cut Mark Dalesandro
April 1: Chicago (AL) cut Brett Caradonna
April 1: Chicago (AL) cut Justin Baughman
April 1: Cleveland cut Eddie Taubensee
April 1: Cleveland cut Josh Bard
April 1: Cleveland cut Scott Pratt
April 1: Cleveland cut Brooks Kieschnick
April 1: Cleveland cut Jim Goelz
April 1: Cleveland cut Jason Phillips
April 1: Cleveland cut Nerio Rodriguez
April 1: Cleveland cut Tim Byrdak
April 1: Cleveland cut Jody Gerut
April 1: Cleveland cut Nate Grindell
April 1: Cleveland cut Billy Traber
April 1: Cleveland cut Jason Fitzgerald
April 1: Cleveland cut Billy Munoz
April 1: Cleveland cut Wilson Sido
April 1: Cleveland cut Jose Colon
April 1: Cleveland cut Edgar Cruz
April 1: Cleveland cut Omar Olivares
April 1: Cleveland cut Tim Laker
April 1: Detroit cut Seth Greisinger
April 1: Detroit cut Terry Pearson
April 1: Detroit cut Tim Adkins
April 1: Detroit cut Corey Richardson
April 1: Detroit cut Yohanny Valera
April 1: Detroit cut Charley Carter
April 1: Detroit cut Oscar Henriquez
April 1: Detroit cut Jared Camp
April 1: Detroit cut Brian Powell
April 1: Detroit cut Brian Rios
April 1: Detroit cut Adam Pettyjohn
April 1: Detroit cut Ryan Jackson
April 1: Detroit cut Dave Borkowski
April 1: Kansas City cut Hector Ortiz
April 1: Kansas City cut Dave McCarty
April 1: Kansas City cut Wes Obermueller
April 1: Kansas City cut Robbie Morrison
April 1: Kansas City cut Tydus Meadows
April 1: Kansas City cut Rod Metzler
April 1: Kansas City cut Joe Caruso
April 1: Kansas City cut Pat Hallmark
April 1: Kansas City cut Jay Gehrke
April 1: Kansas City cut Ryan Douglass
April 1: Kansas City cut Jordan Zimmerman
April 1: Kansas City cut Jason Gooding
April 1: Kansas City cut Jason Gilfillan
April 1: Kansas City cut Bryan Rekar
April 1: Minnesota cut Adam Flohr
April 1: Minnesota cut Thomas Carnes
April 1: Minnesota cut Michael Jerzembeck
April 1: Minnesota cut Greg Mix
April 1: Minnesota cut Doug Bochtler
April 1: Minnesota cut Brent Hoard
April 1: Minnesota cut Mike Duvall
April 1: Minnesota cut Chad Green
April 1: Minnesota cut Ruben Salazar
April 1: Minnesota cut Casey Blake
April 1: Anaheim cut Junior Zamora
April 1: Anaheim cut Lou Lucca
April 1: Anaheim cut Richard Kelley
April 1: Anaheim cut Jason Stephens
April 1: Anaheim cut Donne Wall
April 1: Anaheim cut Larry Barnes
April 1: Anaheim cut Jason Huisman
April 1: Anaheim cut Keith Johnson
April 1: Anaheim cut Keith Davis
April 1: Anaheim cut Terry Rosenkranz
April 1: Anaheim cut Shad Williams
April 1: Anaheim cut Kevin Burns
April 1: Anaheim cut Jamie Burke
April 1: Anaheim cut Clay Bellinger
April 1: Oakland cut Larry Sutton
April 1: Oakland cut Micah Bowie
April 1: Oakland cut Giomar Guevara
April 1: Oakland cut Roberto Vaz
April 1: Oakland cut Jason Anderson
April 1: Oakland cut Matt Miller
April 1: Oakland cut Eric Thompson
April 1: Oakland cut Larry Luebbers
April 1: Oakland cut Dave Eiland
April 1: Oakland cut Bryce Florie
April 1: Oakland cut Chad Meyers
April 1: Oakland cut Rob Ryan
April 1: Seattle cut Jay Pecci
April 1: Seattle cut Brandon Parker
April 1: Seattle cut Brian Fitzgerald
April 1: Seattle cut Chris Mears
April 1: Seattle cut Jason Brester
April 1: Seattle cut Samuel Walton
April 1: Seattle cut Chad Akers
April 1: Seattle cut Kevin Olore
April 1: Seattle cut Brian Falkenborg
April 1: Seattle cut Jason Lakman
April 1: Seattle cut Josue Matos
April 1: Seattle cut Geoff McCallum
April 1: Seattle cut Sean Parnell
April 1: Seattle cut Adrian Myers
April 1: Seattle cut Justin Leone
April 1: Seattle cut Willie Bloomquist
April 1: Seattle cut Aaron Taylor
April 1: Texas cut Rudy Seanez
April 1: Texas cut Hideki Irabu
April 1: Texas cut Jason Maxwell
April 1: Texas cut Paul Ottavinia
April 1: Texas cut Danny Kolb
April 1: Texas cut Robert Dickey
April 1: Texas cut Lucas Beech
April 1: Texas cut David Meliah
April 1: Texas cut Erasmo Ramirez
April 1: Texas cut Daniel Murray
April 1: Texas cut Juan Alvarez
April 1: Texas cut James Brink
April 1: Texas cut Mike Huffaker
April 1: Texas cut Greg Runser
April 1: Texas cut Sean McNally
April 1: Texas cut Rich Rodriguez
April 1: Texas cut Pat Borders
April 1: Texas cut Ed Sprague
April 1: Texas cut Rick Angell
April 1: Texas cut Carlos Hernandez
April 1: Atlanta cut Dave Martinez
April 1: Atlanta cut Timothy Unroe
April 1: Atlanta cut Matthew Franco
April 1: Atlanta cut Kevin Gryboski
April 1: Atlanta cut Joe Dawley
April 1: Atlanta cut Kenny Woods
April 1: Atlanta cut Chris Petersen
April 1: Atlanta cut Christopher Hatcher
April 1: Atlanta cut David Hulse
April 1: Atlanta cut Jake Robbins
April 1: Atlanta cut Joseph Winkelsas
April 1: Atlanta cut Jaeme Leal
April 1: Atlanta cut Victor Gutierrez
April 1: Florida cut Tim Raines
April 1: Florida cut Jason Wood
April 1: Florida cut Brian Banks
April 1: Florida cut Silvio Censale
April 1: Florida cut Ryan Moskau
April 1: Florida cut J.J. Pearsall
April 1: Florida cut Benjamin Candelaria
April 1: Florida cut Jeffrey Barry
April 1: Florida cut Brian Matz
April 1: Florida cut Matthew Duff
April 1: Florida cut Timothy Hamulack
April 1: Florida cut Bobby Rodgers
April 1: Florida cut Jeff Bailey
April 1: Florida cut Jesus Medrano
April 1: Florida cut Bryan Morse
April 1: Montreal cut Joseph Vitiello
April 1: Montreal cut Brandon Agamennone
April 1: Montreal cut Patrick Collins
April 1: Montreal cut Mark Mangum
April 1: Montreal cut Kristopher Stevens
April 1: Montreal cut Howard Battle
April 1: Montreal cut Jake Chapman
April 1: Montreal cut Michael Pasqualicchio
April 1: Montreal cut Ed Vosberg
April 1: Montreal cut Luis Figueroa
April 1: Montreal cut Lance Johnson
April 1: Montreal cut Felix Jose
April 1: Montreal cut Alan Mills
April 1: Montreal cut Desi Wilson
April 1: New York (NL) cut John Franco
April 1: New York (NL) cut Marino Cota
April 1: New York (NL) cut Heath Bell
April 1: New York (NL) cut Andrew Cook
April 1: New York (NL) cut Orlando Roman
April 1: New York (NL) cut Maximo Regaldo
April 1: New York (NL) cut Aaron McNeal
April 1: New York (NL) cut Fletcher Bates
April 1: New York (NL) cut Allen Dina
April 1: New York (NL) cut Jake Joseph
April 1: New York (NL) cut Jason Roach
April 1: New York (NL) cut Virgil Chevalier
April 1: New York (NL) cut Michael Neill
April 1: New York (NL) cut Jeremy Griffiths
April 1: New York (NL) cut Tony Tarasco
April 1: New York (NL) cut Darren Bragg
April 1: New York (NL) cut Pete Walker
April 1: Philadelphia cut Gary Burnham
April 1: Philadelphia cut Ricardo Montas
April 1: Philadelphia cut David Doster
April 1: Philadelphia cut Geoffrey Geary
April 1: Philadelphia cut Jason Knupfer
April 1: Philadelphia cut Samuel Hitchcox
April 1: Philadelphia cut Jason Johnson
April 1: Philadelphia cut James Sitzman
April 1: Philadelphia cut Andrew Dominique
April 1: Philadelphia cut John Roberge
April 1: Philadelphia cut Turk Wendell
April 1: Philadelphia cut P.J. Forbes
April 1: Chicago (NL) cut Flash Gordon
April 1: Chicago (NL) cut Jeff Tabaka
April 1: Chicago (NL) cut Anthony Shumaker
April 1: Chicago (NL) cut Frederick Rath
April 1: Chicago (NL) cut Angel Echevarria
April 1: Chicago (NL) cut Jason Bass
April 1: Chicago (NL) cut John Gilkey
April 1: Chicago (NL) cut Ricardo Palma
April 1: Chicago (NL) cut Ron Mahay
April 1: Chicago (NL) cut Richie Lewis
April 1: Chicago (NL) cut Burt Cummings
April 1: Chicago (NL) cut Steve Sinclair
April 1: Chicago (NL) cut Bryan Wolff
April 1: Chicago (NL) cut Nicolas Jackson
April 1: Chicago (NL) cut Blair Barbier
April 1: Cincinnati cut Jose Rijo
April 1: Cincinnati cut James Dehart
April 1: Cincinnati cut Luke Hudson
April 1: Cincinnati cut Mike Edwards
April 1: Cincinnati cut Samone Peters
April 1: Cincinnati cut Thomas Nevers
April 1: Cincinnati cut Willie Martinez
April 1: Cincinnati cut John Darnell
April 1: Cincinnati cut Jeffrey Taglienti
April 1: Cincinnati cut Scott Dunn
April 1: Cincinnati cut Mark Burnett
April 1: Cincinnati cut Anthony Sanders
April 1: Cincinnati cut Justin Carter
April 1: Cincinnati cut Kevin Jordan
April 1: Cincinnati cut Jesse Levis
April 1: Cincinnati cut Brian Bohanon
April 1: Cincinnati cut Chris Piersoll
April 1: Houston cut Jon Topolski
April 1: Houston cut Hipolito Pichardo
April 1: Houston cut Ramon German
April 1: Houston cut Michael Rosamond
April 1: Houston cut Mark Guerra
April 1: Houston cut Darwin Peguero
April 1: Houston cut Nick Roberts
April 1: Houston cut Doug Sessions
April 1: Houston cut Grant Dorn
April 1: Houston cut Raymond Brown
April 1: Houston cut Alan Zinter
April 1: Houston cut Derek Stanford
April 1: Houston cut Fehlandt Lentini
April 1: Milwaukee cut James Osting
April 1: Milwaukee cut Elbert Altman
April 1: Milwaukee cut Jayson Durocher
April 1: Milwaukee cut Robert Marquez
April 1: Milwaukee cut Mike Penney
April 1: Milwaukee cut Jose Garcia
April 1: Milwaukee cut Timothy Harikkala
April 1: Milwaukee cut Christopher Jones
April 1: Milwaukee cut Robert Sasser
April 1: Milwaukee cut Jon Zuber
April 1: Milwaukee cut Robert Perez
April 1: Milwaukee cut Robert Lee
April 1: Milwaukee cut Robert Sismondo
April 1: Milwaukee cut Gregory Schaub
April 1: Milwaukee cut Jared Mathis
April 1: Milwaukee cut Matt Childers
April 1: Milwaukee cut Takahito Nomura
April 1: Milwaukee cut Lenny Harris
April 1: Pittsburgh cut Pat Meares
April 1: Pittsburgh cut Matt Guerrier
April 1: Pittsburgh cut Shawn Camp
April 1: Pittsburgh cut Tony Pavlovich
April 1: Pittsburgh cut Bradley Guy
April 1: Pittsburgh cut Benjamin Shaffar
April 1: Pittsburgh cut Ryan Radmanovich
April 1: Pittsburgh cut B.J. Barns
April 1: Pittsburgh cut Reed Secrist
April 1: Pittsburgh cut David Post
April 1: Pittsburgh cut Rafael Reyes
April 1: Pittsburgh cut Christopher Pritchett
April 1: Pittsburgh cut Curtis Pride
April 1: Pittsburgh cut Scott Service
April 1: Pittsburgh cut James Dougherty
April 1: Pittsburgh cut Josias Manzanillo
April 1: Pittsburgh cut Shawn Gilbert
April 1: Pittsburgh cut Luis Polonia
April 1: Pittsburgh cut Mandy Romero
April 1: Pittsburgh cut Mike Benjamin
April 1: St. Louis cut Chris Haas
April 1: St. Louis cut Brent Cook
April 1: St. Louis cut Patrick Coogan
April 1: St. Louis cut Radhames Dykhoff
April 1: St. Louis cut Lance Franks
April 1: St. Louis cut Nick Stocks
April 1: St. Louis cut Travis Bailey
April 1: St. Louis cut T.J. Maier
April 1: St. Louis cut Jerry Lail
April 1: St. Louis cut Brian Langen
April 1: St. Louis cut Clint Weibl
April 1: St. Louis cut Steve Green
April 1: St. Louis cut Jimmy Journell
April 1: St. Louis cut Scotty Layfield
April 1: St. Louis cut Mike DiFelice
April 1: St. Louis cut Jason Karnuth
April 1: St. Louis cut Stubby Clapp
April 1: Arizona cut Anthony Chavez
April 1: Arizona cut Armando Reynoso
April 1: Arizona cut Yorkis Perez
April 1: Arizona cut Chris Donnels
April 1: Arizona cut Ray Johnson
April 1: Arizona cut Matthew Kata
April 1: Arizona cut Brian Dallimore
April 1: Arizona cut Micah Franklin
April 1: Arizona cut Sean Lawrence
April 1: Arizona cut Kevan Burns
April 1: Arizona cut Robert Hammock
April 1: Arizona cut Young Ernie
April 1: Arizona cut Mark Holzemer
April 1: Arizona cut Sam Taulli
April 1: Arizona cut Eddie Oropesa
April 1: Arizona cut Bradley Creese
April 1: Colorado cut Mark Thompson
April 1: Colorado cut Ryan Owens
April 1: Colorado cut Rene Reyes
April 1: Colorado cut Christopher Holt
April 1: Colorado cut Mark Difelice
April 1: Colorado cut Chris Nichting
April 1: Colorado cut Bobby Munoz
April 1: Colorado cut Pete Harnisch
April 1: Colorado cut Stephen Shoemaker
April 1: Colorado cut Mike James
April 1: Colorado cut Cliff Brumbaugh
April 1: Los Angeles cut Jeff Reboulet
April 1: Los Angeles cut Stanley Spencer
April 1: Los Angeles cut Eric Ludwick
April 1: Los Angeles cut Jeff Branson
April 1: Los Angeles cut Mark Whiten
April 1: Los Angeles cut Garey Ingram
April 1: Los Angeles cut Rafael Roque
April 1: Los Angeles cut Dennis Springer
April 1: Los Angeles cut Robert Ellis
April 1: Los Angeles cut Tarrik Brock
April 1: Los Angeles cut Scott Pose
April 1: Los Angeles cut Scott Aldred
April 1: Los Angeles cut Ryan Dacey
April 1: Los Angeles cut Jesse Orosco
April 1: Los Angeles cut Phil Hiatt
April 1: San Diego cut John Scheschuk
April 1: San Diego cut John Clontz
April 1: San Diego cut John Hunter
April 1: San Diego cut Brad Cornett
April 1: San Diego cut Ricardo Jordan
April 1: San Diego cut Pete Incaviglia
April 1: San Diego cut Jason Kershner
April 1: San Diego cut Ariel Garcia
April 1: San Diego cut Jason Shiell
April 1: San Diego cut Brandon Villafuerte
April 1: San Diego cut Stephen Watkins
April 1: San Diego cut Mark Sweeney
April 1: San Diego cut Trenidad Hubbard
April 1: San Diego cut Rodney Myers
April 1: San Diego cut David Lundquist
April 1: San Francisco cut Douglas Clark
April 1: San Francisco cut Jeff Alfano
April 1: San Francisco cut Ryan Cox
April 1: San Francisco cut Mark Walker
April 1: San Francisco cut Alejandro Freire
April 1: San Francisco cut Jeremy Luster
April 1: San Francisco cut Jason Ellison
April 1: San Francisco cut Jacob Esteves
April 1: San Francisco cut Kevin Vent
April 1: San Francisco cut Luke Anderson
April 1: San Francisco cut Jeffrey Verplancke
April 1: San Francisco cut Branden Florence
April 1: San Francisco cut Scott Servais
April 1: Baltimore cut Alex Arias
April 3: Arizona cut Bodie Simpson
April 4: Anaheim cut Julio Ramirez
April 5: Baltimore cut Quincy Ascencion
April 9: Boston cut Gregory Montalbano
April 11: Oakland cut Mike Fyhrie
April 12: Tampa Bay cut Thomas Martin
April 12: Tampa Bay cut Nathan Ruhl
April 12: Tampa Bay cut Marc Wilkins
April 12: Tampa Bay cut Reggie Harris
April 12: Anaheim cut Brendan Donnelly
RETIRES:
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No information available.
3 or more Homers in a game:
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April 7: Vladimir Guerrero (Montreal) with 3 against Cincinnati
April 9: Lance Berkman (Houston) with 3 against Colorado
April 11: Russ Branyan (Cleveland) with 3 against Minnesota
April 11: Brian Daubach (Boston) with 3 against Kansas City
Hit for Cycle:
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No information available.
Pitcher threw a No Hitter:
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No information available.
Pitcher threw One Hit:
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April 9: Kerry Wood (Chicago (NL)) against New York (NL)
April 10: Andy Pettitte (New York (AL)) against Toronto
Pitcher threw perfect game:
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No information available.
Pitcher struck out 15 in a game:
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April 1: Randy Johnson (Arizona) with 15 against San Diego
April 4: Rodrigo Lopez (Baltimore) with 15 against New York (AL)
April 7: Randy Johnson (Arizona) with 17 against Milwaukee
April 8: Tom Glavine (Atlanta) with 15 against Philadelphia
April 9: Kerry Wood (Chicago (NL)) with 18 against New York (NL)
April 10: Rodrigo Lopez (Baltimore) with 16 against Tampa Bay
April 12: Roger Clemens (New York (AL)) with 15 against Boston
Player got 5 or more Hits in a game:
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April 5: Jason Kendall (Pittsburgh) with 5 against Chicago (NL)
April 10: Terry Shumpert (Colorado) with 6 against Houston
Career Home Run milestone:
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No information available.
Career Hits milestone:
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No information available.
Career Wins milestone:
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No information available.
Career Stolen Bases milestone:
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No information available.