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What do Dave Stieb, Tim Wakefield, and Sergio Santos have in common? All three started out as position players, and made the conversion to pitchers. wholesale jerseys . A couple of more players trying to make the switch came to light over the weekend. Both have Blue Jays connections, one direct and one in a more roundabout way. Justin Jackson was drafted as a shortstop by the Blue Jays in 2007. He was a decent fielder with a strong arm who just never came around as a hitter. Over the course of this past year, the Blue Jays convinced him to give pitching a try. Jackson worked 49.2 innings between Lansing in low "A" ball and Dunedin of the Florida State League in high "A" ball. Jackson put together a decent ERA of 3.26 over the two stops. The Jays decided not to put Jackson on the 40-man roster, so he will be available for the Rule 5 Draft next month in Orlando. The organization is gambling that no team will take a chance on claiming a newly minted pitcher with so little experience. The other pitcher-to-be is the younger son of former Blue Jays right fielder Jesse Barfield. Jeremy Barfield is a 25-year-old 65" outfielder in the Oakland As chain. Back in July, the As approached Jeremy about making the switch. He has the arm strength of his father and is a left hander to boot. The As figure its worth a shot, especially in light of the success theyve had with lefty reliever Sean Doolittle. The 27-year-old was drafted in 2007 by the As to be a 1B/OF. However, he had been a standout pitcher through high school and college. During instructional league in 2007, the As converted Doolittle back into a pitcher. In two seasons in the As bullpen, the hard throwing 63" southpaw has pitched so well, Oakland is at least considering making him their closer for 2014. We mentioned Jeremy Barfield. Well, Jesses older son Josh is still playing as well. Once considered a top prospect with San Diego and Cleveland, the 31-year-old finished up last season with the Long Island Ducks of the independent Atlantic League. Rumours and Deals The Jeff Samardzjia to the Blue Jays rumours picked up a little steam over the weekend. Bruce Levine of ESPN Chicago claimed that Alex Anthopoulos was putting together a list of prospects to make an offer for the 28-year-old right-hander. The number mentioned for Samardzjia was three to four prospects and you would have to think a couple of those would need to be Major League ready. Samardzjia has struck out 394 batters over the past two seasons, but at age 28 has never won in double digits with a career record of 29-35 and a 4.19 ERA. He still might be their best option considering the money and length of contract that the likes of Ervin Santana, Matt Garza and Ubaldo Jiminez should be able to command as free agents. Another pitching option came off the board on Sunday. Veteran right-hander Dan Haren, who really wanted to pitch on the West Coast, agreed to a one-year, $10 million deal with the Dodgers. cheap jerseys From China . The Nashville Predators needed a little extra time to stretch their run to five. David Legwand scored the only shootout goal, Pekka Rinne finished with 39 saves and the Predators beat the St. cheap jerseys wholesale . PETERSBURG, Fla. http://www.wholesalejerseys-fromchina.com/ . -- Down 11 points early in the second quarter, Golden State Warriors coach Mark Jackson seemed more than satisfied with the way his team responded. jerseys from china . -- Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter resumed hitting and fielding drills Friday for the first time since mid-April, a day after receiving medical clearance to increase his rehabilitation program for a broken left ankle. cheap jerseys from china . Beachy and the Braves agreed to a one-year deal on Monday, successfully avoiding arbitration with the 27-year-old.Philadelphia made the first big splash of the free agent season, signing closer Jonathan Papelbon away from the Boston Red Sox. Numbers Game looks at what the Phillies are getting and who will move into the closers role for the Red Sox. The Phillies Get: RHP Jonathan Papelbon. Papelbon, 31, has been one the premier closers in the game for the last six seasons, recording at least 35 saves for five straight years before finishing 2011 with 31. Just because his save numbers were down, however, is little indication that Papelbon has lost anything. His strikeouts per nine ratio of 12.2 (87 K in 64 1/3 IP) was the second-best of his career and ranked seventh among all relief pitchers in 2011. Not only was Papelbon striking hitters out, he was also not walking many, surrendering just 10 walks. Again, his walks per nine innings (1.4) was the second-best of his career. Perhaps the key to Papelbons success in an improved split-finger pitch, which was effective and figures to have some correlation with his generating more swings at pitches outside the strike zone (a career-high 41.9% according to http://www.fangraphs.com) and the second-highest rate of swings and misses (16.8%) of his career. These numbers would seem to indicate that Papelbon is a solid addition to the Phillies bullpen, and he could very well be, but with a contract for four years and $50-million, with a vesting option for a fifth year, Philadelphia is making a significant investmment in a a position that tends to be volatile. wholesale jerseys. The Phillies hope would be that Papelbon will provide stability at the back end of their bullpen and he should. Considering the Phillies payroll and their win-now objectives, the move makes sense, even if its not considered the wisest allocation of funds to spend $12.5-million per season on a pitcher that has never thrown more than 70 innings in a season. With Papelbon departing, Boston is set to hand the closer reigns over to Daniel Bard, provided he can overcome whatever happened to him in September when he allowed 13 earned runs in 11 innings (10.64 ERA) after allowing 14 earned runs in 62 innings (2.03 ERA) prior to September. All told, Bard still had the best strikeout-walk ratio (3.08) of his career, striking out 74 and walking 24 in 73 innings. According to http://www.fangraphs.com, Bards average fastball velocity of 97.3 MPH was fourth-fastest in the major leagues last season, yet he threw a few more sliders and change-ups than he had in his first two seasons. There may not be any drop-off from Papelbon to Bard or, if there is, the drop could be negligible and, given that Bard earned $505,000 last season, there is a significant cost savings for Boston while still filling the role effectively. Scott Cullen can be reached at Scott.Cullen@bellmedia.ca and followed on Twitter at http://twitter.com/tsnscottcullen. For more, check out TSN Fantasy on Facebook. ' ' '
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