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  RotoChamps.com : Manny Ramirez
Gene Mato, one of Manny Ramirez's representatives, told Red Sox owner John W. Henry yesterday that Ramirez wants to be traded, and will not report to spring training if his wish to be dealt is not met, a team source told the Boston Globe.
Manny Ramirez will spend the next two weeks resting before beginning a rehab program that emphasizes abdominal strength and his hamstrings for the rest of the winter.
Manny Ramirez left yesterday's game in the eighth inning after bruising his right quadriceps in the second inning, according to the Boston Globe.
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  Manny Ortez - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Manny Ortez is the name Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry used when referencing players on the Boston Red Sox in a public appearance on July 12, 2004.
Kerry was referring to both Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz, two of the team's more prominent players.
As Ramirez and Ortiz are both natives of the Dominican Republic, frequently follow each other in the batting order, and are similar power hitters, this collective noun makes a surprising amount of sense.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Manny_Ortez   (204 words)

  
 Ramirez again asks Sox for trade - The Boston Globe
Gene Mato, one of Manny Ramirez's representatives, communicated to Red Sox owner John W. Henry yesterday that Ramirez wants to be traded, and will not report to spring training if his wish to be dealt is not met, according to a team source.
Ramirez is a 10-5 player, meaning he has 10 years of major league service, five consecutive with the same team.
Ramirez, along with one of his representatives, was scheduled to meet with Henry on Wednesday and discuss some of the issues in Ramirez's head.
www.boston.com /sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2005/10/29/ramirez_again_asks_sox_for_trade   (691 words)

  
 Manny Ramírez - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ramirez asks the first base umpire to give his opinion on his at bat.
The trade deadline behind him, Ramírez began his new life with the Red Sox with a go-ahead, pinch-hit single in the eighth inning, thrilling the Fenway Park crowd that thought he might be traded and giving Boston a 4-3 victory over the Minnesota Twins.
Other examples of "Manny being Manny" include his stepping up to plate with bottled water in his back pocket, and his playing in the outfield wearing a pair of sunglasses with an MP3 player attched.
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 Boston.com / Sports / Baseball / Red Sox / Ramblin' Manny
Ramirez was born in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic and moved to the US when he was 13.
Manny's father, Aristide, drove a taxi, and his mother, Onelcida, was a seamstress in a factory.
Manny says his family was poor in the Dominican but not as poor as others, at least in baseball terms.
www.boston.com /sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2004/08/24/ramblin_manny?pg=full   (1886 words)

  
 Manny Ramirez   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Manny has had a career year in 2004 with 43 home runs and 130 RBI's to date, with an average of.308 and a slugging percentage of.613.
Manny was drafted right out of George Washington High School by Cleveland in the 1st round; he was the 13th pick overall.
Manny is currently ranked 3rd among active starters with a slugging percentage if.598 and 17th with 347 home runs.
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 USATODAY.com - Fantasy Sports
Ramirez will probably show up ready to hit even if he isn’t happy about his situation, but the possibility that his frustrations will effect him at the plate do serve to drop his price tag by a couple of dollars.
ET Manny Ramirez had a two-run homer, a single and a sac fly against the Yankees on Monday night.
Ramirez thought the triple was his second homer and he didn't run out of the box on a fly that bounced off the right-field wall.
fantasybaseball.usatoday.com /content/player.asp?sport=MLB&id=1884   (422 words)

  
 Manny Ramirez : Rotoworld.com - Manny Ramirez Biography from Rotoworld.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Manny Ramirez had a two-run homer, a single and a sac fly against the Yankees on Monday night.
Manny Ramirez, who left yesterday's game with a right knee injury, returned to the lineup tonight and doubled in four trips to the plate.
Manny Ramirez managed only a single tonight and is without an extra-base hit in 32 at-bats this season.
www.rotoworld.com /content/playerpages/player_main.asp?sport=MLB&id=1884   (768 words)

  
 KFFL - Manny Ramirez, OF, Boston Red Sox
Ramirez will report to spring training March 1, and if he had played in the WBC he would have had to report to the Dominican Republic team on March 2, meaning he would have spent exactly one day in Red Sox camp before March 20, when the event ends.
Ramirez remained in the game to hit in the bottom of the second inning, but was replaced in left field by OF Gabe Kapler to start the third inning.
Ramirez, along with the help of 1B Kevin Millar as a mock translator, stated his desire to remain with the team and bring another championship to Boston.
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 USATODAY.com - Report: Ramirez wants out of Boston ... maybe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
BOSTON — Manny Ramirez's on-again and off-again demand that the Boston Red Sox trade him is on again, according to The Boston Globe.
Ramirez's 10-5 status — 10 years in the majors and the last five with one team — would enable him to block a trade.
Ramirez has three more seasons at a total of $57 million on his eight-year, $160 million contract he signed before the 2001 season.
www.usatoday.com /sports/baseball/al/redsox/2005-10-30-ramirez-trade-report_x.htm   (329 words)

  
 Ramirez reportedly won't play in Classic - Baseball - MSNBC.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Ramirez was given permission by the Red Sox to report to spring training on March 1, six days after the team’s first full-squad workout and one day after Major League Baseball’s mandatory reporting date.
Ramirez asked the team through his agent to trade him during the offseason, but the Red Sox were unable to find a deal to their liking.
“Manny is in Florida completing an extensive training regimen and is prepared to have an exceptional season,” said a joint statement from Ramirez and the team that was released by the Red Sox on Tuesday.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/11525974   (435 words)

  
 Manny Ramirez   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Manny Ramirez is the right fielder for the Cleveland Indians.
Manny likes to raid the locker room lost and found to try to find cool stuff.
Manny had a great 99 season, which added to his spectacular career.
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 ESPN.com: MLB - Ramirez joins Red Sox with desire to dethrone Yankees
By signing Manny Ramirez, the Red Sox are well on their way to catching the Yankees in hitting.
ESPN followed Manny Ramirez's agent, Jeff Moorad, as he criss-crossed the country, working the phones, meeting with general managers, and strategizing with his client.
Ramirez's career high is 45 in 1998, but the inviting left field wall could give him a chance to top that.
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 Manny Ramirez Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac
Manny Ramirez was born on Tuesday, May 30, 1972, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Ramirez was 21 years old when he broke into the big leagues on September 2, 1993, with the Cleveland Indians.
Did you know that Manny Ramirez is one of only four ballplayers (Jimmie Foxx, Mark McGwire, and Rafael Palmeiro are the other three) in Major League history to hit at least two-hundred career home runs with two different ballclubs?
www.baseball-almanac.com /players/player.php?p=ramirma02   (218 words)

  
 Major League Baseball : News : Major League Baseball News
Manny Ramirez gets a standing ovation as he heads to the plate during the eighth.
Ramirez was asked if the trade rumors of the last couple of days had affected him.
Ramirez then explained the other big controversy of the week, in which he chose to take a scheduled day off this past Wednesday against the Devil Rays when the team was short-handed with Trot Nixon going on the disabled list before the game.
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 The Official Site of Manny Ramirez - Home
d Sox slugger Manny Ramirez has gone from unwanted to unstoppable -- and the secret to baseball's most enigmatic star is all there in his swing.
Ramirez told NESN before last night’s game that he thought he would miss approximately 10 games with the injury, and he also told The Associated Press that he guessed it would be around a week.
BOSTON -- The man who decided the game was Manny Ramirez, who had the breakout game he was due for, clubbing two homers, the latter of which snapped a 7-7 tie in the bottom of the eighth.
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 Manny Rameriz Boston Red Sox Outfielder Major League Baseball Player Profiles and Memorabilia Photographs
Manny Ramirez Celebrating 2004 ALDS Sweep of the Anaheim Angels Double Matted 8 X 10 Photograph (Unframed)
Manny Ramirez Autographed US Flag Framed 16 x 20 Photograph
This autographed Manny Ramirez US Flag framed 16x20 photograph comes with a Sports Images certificate of authenticity.
www.redsoxnetwork.com /players/mannyramirez   (253 words)

  
 The Sporting Scene: Waiting for Manny: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
Manny Ramirez is a deeply frustrating employee, the kind whose talents are so prodigious that he gets away with skipping meetings, falling asleep on the job, and fraternizing with the competition.
Ramirez, who was born in Santo Domingo in 1972 and moved to the heavily Dominican neighborhood of Washington Heights, in northern Manhattan, when he was thirteen, still spoke little English by the time he was drafted, and he remains a man of few words.
Ramirez’s appearance—he styles his hair in dreadlocks, wears a uniform cut for a sumo wrestler, and smiles broadly and indiscriminately—hints at this extracurricular flakiness, and even gives off a whiff of pothead.
www.newyorker.com /reporting/2007/04/23/070423fa_fact_mcgrath   (992 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Ortiz: Red Sox have seen last of Manny Ramirez   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
"Manny is not returning to Boston," Ortiz said Monday during a news conference at the Office of the Sports Secretary of the Dominican Republic.
Ramirez, who hit 45 homers and had 144 RBI last season, has asked the Red Sox to explore a trade because he's uncomfortable living in Boston.
Ramirez, who led the American League in home runs and RBI per at-bat last season, is owed $57 million during the next three years and has the right to block trades, so the Red Sox and his agent pledged to work together.
usatoday.com /sports/baseball/al/redsox/2005-11-23-ortiz-ramirez_x.htm   (285 words)

  
 Manny Ramirez - Boston Red Sox
On the cover of the Sports Illustrated preview issue for the 1996 summer of baseball, Indian slugger Manny Ramirez’s picture illustrated the magazine’s belief that Cleveland’s stacked line up lead by Ramirez was “Ready to Rock” after losing to Atlanta in the World Series a year before.
When Manny turned 11, his family moved to New York City where he would shine as a star on his high school baseball team.
Manny quickly mastered the major league game and made his first of seven AL All Star teams in 1995.
www.angelfire.com /stars5/manny   (271 words)

  
 Scout.com: POTD: Manny Happy Returns
If Manny were caught with Randy Johnson's girl tomorrow and put into the past tense by a hucked pinecone, his HOF induction would be preached at his internment this Saturday.
Manny is not threatening like Albert Belle, not sullen and resentful like Randy Johnson, but he is wayyyyyyy out there in Daffy Duck satellite city.
Manny’s balls-in-play rate is precisely the same as it has always been, so his expected AVG is precisely the same as it has always been.
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 Major League Baseball : News : Major League Baseball News
Manny Ramirez has batted.273 with 28 home runs for the Red Sox this season.
Ramirez declined, saying that he needed the rest, even though the Red Sox had a scheduled day off Thursday.
While Ramirez seldom expresses his thoughts to the media, Ortiz said that his friend couldn't help but be hurt by the boos.
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 NY Mets interested in acquiring Manny Ramirez   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
At one time, the Red Sox placed Ramirez irrevocable waivers because of reported dislike with the team and the team's desire to jettison his $20-million salary.
Ramirez batted.412 (7-for-17) with a homer and four RBIs against the Cardinals and had at least one hit in each of Boston's 14 postseason games.
Ramirez, 31, still has four years to go on the eight-year, $160 million contract he signed with then-Red Sox general manager Dan Duquette in December 2000.
www.latinosportslegends.com /2004/Ramirez_manny_mets_interested-110104.htm   (225 words)

  
 Here we go againwith Manny   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Only problem is, when Ramirez returned to Boston and teammates offered their condolences, he said she was fine.
It is about Ramirez sending a message to his teammates that he doesn't really buy into the all-for-one mentality they've demonstrated in overcoming a miserable bullpen to remain within two games of the Yankees.
And while a lot of Ramirez supporters obstinately maintain that nothing he does off the field matters if he performs on it, Manny's got other people to consider beyond himself.
www.eagletribune.com /news/stories/20030714/SP_003.htm   (484 words)

  
 Manny Ramirez | BaseballLibrary.com
Manny's shots are 463 feet and 501 feet, the latter banging the net around the coke bottle in left.
Manny's blast travels 491 feet, the longest homer in Dome history; it is his 7th of the year against the Jays, the most an opponent has hit in a season; and his 5th at the Dome, which also ties an opponents record.
Ramirez is the only one of the group to have been walked intentionally twice this year with no ducks on the pond.
www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/R/Ramirez_Manny.stm   (1913 words)

  
 New York Daily News - Baseball - Manny to Mets: Get lost!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Ramirez has no desire to play in Flushing, even if it would mean reuniting with ex-teammate Pedro Martinez, his agent said.
Ramirez, having played five years for the Red Sox and with 10 years of major-league service, has earned the right to veto any trade.
Boston CEO Larry Lucchino, disenchanted by Ramirez's quirky behavior, was said to have been a driving force behind the early talks, though Red Sox front-office executives were wary of trading Ramirez.
www.nydailynews.com /sports/baseball/story/357768p-304850c.html   (672 words)

  
 Sporting News, The: Absent-minded - Cleveland Indians' slugger Manny Ramirez   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Ramirez's hitting exhibition doesn't come as a surprise to anyone who has watched him play the past three seasons.
Ramirez, thinking the ball had been fouled off, got up and headed back to first.
Helping Ramirez iron out his problems in the outfield and on the basepaths are top priorities for the Indians.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1208/is_n10_v222/ai_20382951   (499 words)

  
 Sporting News, The: A Manny among men - Cleveland Indians' Manny Ramirez
Across the room, right fielder/RBI machine Manny Ramirez is trying to play table tennis--with both hands, his tattooed chest heaving with laughter to the ticktock, ticktock of the game as he awkwardly wields paddles righthanded and lefthanded.
He is on a pace to drive in 203 runs, and while some of that might be attributed to the hitters around him, there is no dispute: Manny Ramirez is a star.
A computerized scouting report on Ramirez shows his "red zones," where he hits the ball with the most power: Against righthanded pitchers, he likes the ball middle of the plate and in; against lefthanders, his power is middle and away.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1208/is_25_223/ai_54979535   (506 words)

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