Johnny Damon

offseason for high-profile clients Matt Holliday, Adrian Beltre, Ivan Rodriguez, and most recently, Johnny Damon.  Lopez put up very good numbers in 2009 – .310/.383/.427 – including career highs in both batting average and OBP, but remains unsigned at the start of Spring Training.

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of bona fide free agents still looking for work with spring training just around the corner?  Johnny Damon, Carlos Delgado, Orlando Cabrera, Brian Giles, Jermaine Dye, Gary Sheffield, Mark Mulder, Erik Bedard, Pedro Martinez, and John Smoltz are among the proven veterans who remain unsigned entering the last weekend of January.  They may not like it, but many of the seasoned vets will have to settle for one-year, incentive-laden contracts, or face retirement.

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give ARod and Giambi protection in the five or six hole, and is needed more than ever in left with Johnny Damon's shoulder issues. Posada can hit pretty well, but can't throw, so even when he was in the game, other teams ran rampant--Jose Molina and Chad Moeller are decent defensive replacements, but can't match Jorge's bat.

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sed-door meeting among coaches and players—reportedly, manager Joe Girardi spoke, followed by Johnny Damon and captain Derek Jeter. In a postgame news conference, Girardi repeatedly (and sometimes heatedly) refused to reveal what was said in the meeting, although the gist of the discussion was obvious: the can’t-lose Yankees have been losing.

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