Dodgers Blue Heaven: Jul 4, 2013

Thursday, July 04, 2013

Have a safe and sane 4th of July. Happy Independence Day!

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Yasiel Puig was named National League Player and Rookie of the Month of June. See the Dodgers press release here. Pic above via twitter @Dodgers.

Cards That Never Were produces a fantasy 1962 Topps NL Stolen Base Leaders card featuring Maury Wills. Awesome!
In a somewhat surprising move, the Yankees have signed Luis Cruz.

The @Yankees sign INF Luis Cruz.
— New York Yankees (@Yankees) July 3, 2013

Check out Cruz in Yankees pinstripes, via twitter Marly Rivera of ESPN. BTW, he went 0 for 3 with a throwing error in his debut.

Wait... What? Via Evan Grant at Sports Day DFW tells us that Manny Ramirez has just signed a minor league deal with the Texas Rangers.
Eric Stephen at True Blue LA, "Yasiel Puig injury: Dodgers OF hits Coors Field wall, leaves game". Ken Gurnick at MLB.com reports that Puig is day-to-day.
Via Ken Gurnick on twitter:

Marmol has cleared outright waivers and has accepted a minor league assignment.
— Ken Gurnick (@kengurnick) July 4, 2013

7/3/13: Dodgers slug four home runs amidst their 17 hits, getting long balls from Juan Uribe, Adrian Gonzalez, Hanley Ramirez and Matt Kemp