BASEBALL: SANCHEZ GETS 1-YEAR DEAL WITH PITTSBURGH.Byline: Staff and Wire Services National League batting champion Freddy Sanchez Frederick Phillip (Freddy) Sanchez, Jr. (born December 21, 1977 in Hollywood, California) is an infielder in Major League Baseball. Since 2002, Sanchez has played for the Boston Red Sox (2002-03) and Pittsburgh Pirates (2003-Present). He bats and throws right-handed. chose not to go to arbitration and agreed to a $2.75 million, one-year contract Saturday with the suddenly active Pittsburgh Pirates This article is about the baseball team. For the National Hockey League team, see Pittsburgh Pirates (NHL). For the National Football League team (1933–1940), see Pittsburgh Steelers. . The Pirates, who made almost no player moves for the first 3 1/2 months of their offseason, signed former Milwaukee All-Star reliever Dan Kolb to a minor-league deal. Sanchez, a reserve infielder when last season started but the Pirates' 25th NL batting champion when it ended, gets a big raise over the $342,000 he made last season. The Burbank High product sought $3.1 million in salary arbitration while the Pirates offered $2.15 million. Given that Sanchez hit .344 and drove in 85 runs despite hitting only six homers, he appeared to have a good chance of winning an arbitration case that was to be argued Feb.8. Despite saying he wasn't worried the club would downplay down·play tr.v. down·played, down·play·ing, down·plays To minimize the significance of; play down: downplayed the bad news. Verb 1. his accomplishments in the arbitration hearing, the 29- year-old Sanchez chose to settle. ``You've got to have thick skin through this process and I don't take anything personal,'' said Sanchez, who led the NL with 53 doubles. ``I understand what's going to go on.'' Caribbean Series The Caribbean Series is a baseball tournament, the brainchild of the Venezuelans Oscar "El Negro" Prieto and Pablo Morales, who devised the idea after the seeing the success of the Serie Interamericana : Tony Batista Leocadio Francisco "Tony" Batista (born December 9, 1973 in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic) is an infielder who plays for the Washington Nationals, who played in the major leagues from 1996 to 2004, and played with the Softbank Hawks of the Japanese Pacific League in 2005. hit two home runs -- the second an inside-the- parker -- to lead the Dominican Republic's Aguilas Cibaenas to a 9-0 victory over Mexico in the Caribbean Series. On Friday night in the tournament opener, Batista's bases-loaded sacrifice fly in the 18th inning in·ning n. 1. a. Baseball One of nine divisions or periods of a regulation game, in which each team has a turn at bat as limited by three outs. b. innings (used with a sing. gave the Dominican a 4-3 victory over Venezuela in the longest game in Caribbean Series history at 6 hours, 13 minutes. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) SANCHEZ |
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