Federal Baseball (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
John "Cool Hand" Lannan's A Topps All-Star... DC starter John Lannan was named to the Topps Major League Rookie All-Star Team today, according to MLB.com's Bill Ladson's article entitled, "Lannan named to Rookie All-Star Team", putting him in the same company as Reds' rookie Joey Votto, "The Cuban Missile" Alexei Ramirez, Cubs' backstop Geovany Soto and others. Finally...
MLB (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
Lannan named to Rookie All-Star team
Sports Collectors Daily (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
... Chicago (N.L.) (141, 23, 86, .285)RHP Brad Ziegler, Oakland (59.2 IP, 3-0, 1.06, 30 K, 22 BB)LHP John Lannan, Washington (182 IP, 9-15, 3.91, 117 K, 72 BB)The Topps Major League Rookie All-Star team began in 1959 with Willie McCovey being the first of 15 future Hall of Famers named to the squad (others include Johnny Bench, Rod Carew, Gary Carter, Carlton Fisk, Paul Molitor,...
The Big Lead (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
... more years, and a pitcher (Olsen) who’ll probably be better than anyone on their staff not named John Lannan, in exchange for three guys that might never see a major league field. Based on this trade, might the Nationals have finally turned a corner? The team will have a trio of outfielders - Elijah Dukes, Lastings Milledge and Willingham - that can hit, and will probably get better...
Just A Nats Fan (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
... leaving the Phillies, this should be good for the Nationals in many ways. How nice will it be for John Lannan not to see Burrell in succession after Utley and Ryan Howard in the Phillies batting order plus not having Jamie Moyer torment the Nats from the mound!Burrell bats from the right-side so he isn’t the lefty power bat that the Nats have coveted, but you have to think Jim Bowden...
