Continuing Careers of Ex Would Be Mets - 2011

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Never Met catcher Yorvit Torrealba loses his grievance against the team with whom he totally wanted to sign.

[A]rbitrator Shyam Das ruled the Mets had the right to not complete a $14.4 million, three-year agreement with the catcher in November 2007. The agreement signed by the team and Torrealba's representative said the contract was subject to a physical that was satisfactory to the Mets. The team concluded it had concerns about his throwing shoulder, which caused him to miss three months of the 2006 season. "The physical turned up an issue,'' Mets executive vice president and general counsel David Cohen said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. "It's one of those situations where different people might have different views of the likely prognosis, but there was clearly an issue. And based on that issue, the team just felt it was not worth taking the medical risk.''

Torrealba will, in the meantime, need to settle for catching for the defending American League champions.

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Shyam Das would've arbitrated K-Rod's grievance, had the two sides not settled.

[Guest Edgy DC]

De Smet's own Bobby Keppel, braving disaster and bringing the heat for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters (note the new hyphen and how it brings clarity).

Readers of serial juvenile prarie memoirs will remember De Smet, SD (and not Walnut Grove, MN) as the main stop in the vagabond lives of the Ingalls family, site of many of young Laura's adventures, and where she caught up with Almanzo.