Yup. The suspension starts whenever he signs with a MLB team (majors or minors).

A Red Sox note: Heyman is reporting Valentine is done after tonight's game

Does the wild card game count for regular season stats? Meaning Hamilton could catch Cabrera for HRs on Friday?

Nah, it's playoffs

but a tiebreaker would count if one was played.

2013 1st round draft order:

01 = Astros
02 = Cubs
03 = Rockies
04 = Twins
05 = Indians
06 = Marlins
07 = Red Sox
08 = Royals
09 = Pirates (for failing to sign Mark Appel)
10 = Blue Jays
----------------------Cutoff for not forfeiting the pick for a major FA signing. bahaha Mets
11 = Mets
12 = Mariners
13 = Padres
14 = Pirates
15 = Diamondbacks
16 = Phillies
17 = Brewers
18 = White Sox
19 = Dodgers
20 = Cardinals
21 = Tigers
22 = Angels
23 = Rays
24 = Orioles
25 = Rangers
26 = Athletics
27 = Giants
28 = Braves
29 = Yankees
30 = Reds
31 = Nationals

-- Kemp revealed that he's been playing the past 6 weeks with a torn labrum and will get surgery on Friday. He'll be out anywhere from 1-4 months.

-- Schilling might be forced to sell his bloody sock (which could get up to $25K) because of his debts

what about the towel he kept over his face whenever mitchypoo pitched, amirite?

This Pat Neshek story is awful.

do tell

my cousin mose wrote:do tell

In the midst of the Oakland Athletics’ glorious, improbable season, pitcher Pat Neshek and his wife are dealing with an indescribable loss, the death of their newborn son.

Neshek had left the team Tuesday to be with his wife, Stephanee, for the birth of Gehrig John in Florida and, then, about 23 hours after the birth, Neshek tweeted this plea: Please pray for my family. Tonight my wife & I lost our first & only son 23 hours after he was born with no explanation.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/early-lead/wp/2012/10/04/as-pat-neshek-wife-mourn-death-of-newborn-son/

36 hour span on his Twitter account. Devastating.

Thinking of the long nights in AAA, my TJ surgery & the days when I thought it was over..Makes this the sweetest playoff birth of my career!

What a day, my wife is now in labor! #playoffbaby

It's a boy Gehrig John Neshek...8 lbs 5 oz, born 10/2/12. Pat flew Oakland to FL just in time for birth! #playoffbaby

Please pray for my family. Tonight my wife & I lost our first & only son 23 hours after he was born with no explanation.

that is just unspeakably awful

that is devastating

bummer

Bobby V. got fucking fired

Napalm wrote:Bobby V. got fucking fired

I love that the team announced it through twitter.

Schilling is going to have to auction off the bloody sock

http://deadspin.com/5949004/right-after-bobby-valentine-gets-fired-espn-runs-a-segment-about-why-hes-still-the-manager-of-the-red-sox

ESPN is the best

Plaschke on ESPN. Butthurt that the A's and Giants are in the playoffs and the Dodgers aren't.

Steroids is the only reason either team is in the playoffs. What a dick.

wait did he SERIOUSLY say that? Anyone remember Mannywood?