The Yankees made a move to shore up their outfield, acquiring Eric Hinske from the Pittsburgh Pirates for a couple of minor league guys who will never matter. Fans hoping Hinske can be to the Yanks what former Pirate Jason Bay has been to the Red Sox: you might as well put such crazy notions out of your mind. Hinske was hitting only .255 with 1 homer and 11 RBI with Pittsburgh. Hinske is expected to play all three outfield spots for the Yanks, and also spell A-Rod at third on those days when A-Rod is too tired from partying [...]
Mar 25th 2009
Pirates’ Prospect’s Wife is a Baby-Napper. Finally, Nancy Grace Will Have Someone New to Talk About.
Amalia Tabata Pereira, the wife of Pirates prospect Jose Tabata, is being held by police as a suspect in the brief kidnapping of a 2-month-old baby in Tampa. Accounts of the kidnapping read like something from a really awful TV movie: According to authorities, Pereira posed as an immigration worker to fool the baby’s Mexican parents into thinking they were going to be deported, then had them hand over the child to her. Just one day later, however, Pereira was arrested by police after they received an anonymous tip, and the child has now been returned safe-and-sound to the mother. [...]
