Blaine Boyer News

I honestly can't believe that move. Unless we get lucky and someone says they want to give us a bag of balls for Blaine Boyer , we basically wasted him.

Photo by Tim Evearitt Blaine Boyer pitching for the Braves. St. Louis Cardinals right-hander Blaine Boyer was designated for assignment on Thursday.

Class AAA Memphis third baseman David Freese, one of the St. Louis Cardinals' most promising prospects, on Tuesday underwent arthroscopic surgery on his ailing left ankle.

The Cardinals bullpen opened the season defined as a work in progress. Two weeks since adding an eighth, albeit struggling, reliever to the mix, significant progress has been made.

Around the horn D'oh! Wilson Valdez , shortstop for Triple A Columbus, came to bat in the bottom of the ninth Monday with the Clippers trailing Louisville, 7-6. The tying run was on third base with two outs.

He interned with NASA and Boeing and is one semester shy of earning a degree in aerospace engineering at the University of Miami.

''That was the last time I started, too,'' Hoffman recalled. That was so long ago, he forgot how to warm up properly before the game as pitching coach Chris Bosio suggested the 41-year-old righthander may have thrown too many pitches before Tuesday's game against the Redbirds.

Are you there, Baseball Gods? It's me, Alex... The Braves seem to have reached the conclusion over the last week and a half that winning is severely overrated.

The extreme makeover of the St. Louis Cardinals' bullpen continued with an early-April move for another righthander - the team's confessed depth entering the season - and the wish to carry 13 pitchers on the 25-man roster.

It didn't take Blaine Boyer long to be rejuvenated again. Boyer, 27, a right-handed reliever acquired by the St.

St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa said the main reason for going to a 13-man pitching staff was to find a spot for newly acquired reliever Blaine Boyer rather than helping a bullpen that's been overworked lately.

St. Louis got help for a needy bullpen, acquiring RHP Blaine Boyer from Atlanta for minor league OF Brian Barton.

The St. Louis Cardinals added bullpen help, acquiring right-hander Blaine Boyer from the Atlanta Braves in exchange for minor league outfielder Brian Barton.

Amazin', to quote Dr. Casey Stengel, the Florida Marlins come to Turner Field and take command.

The Atlanta Braves recalled pitcher Jo-Jo Reyes from Triple-A Gwinnett on Saturday and designated pitcher Blaine Boyer for assignment.

The Braves announced after Thursday's game that reliever Jorge Campillo will go on the disabled list Friday with right shoulder fatigue.

When David Ross strained his right groin during a Spring Training game March 31, Braves manager Bobby Cox said that his team couldn't afford to lose the backup catcher.

Watching one of your relief pitchers issue a bases-loaded walk with the score tied in the late innings is painful enough.

When Spring Training began, Peter Moylan's goal was to prove that he didn't need the customary full 12 months to recover from Tommy John elbow ligament transplant surgery.

There's only one blemish on the Atlanta Braves' season through six games, but it was ugly.