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Published on Friday, Oct 24, 2008
From staff and wire reports
His peers have selected Indians pitcher Cliff Lee as the 2008 American League Comeback Player of the Year, one of the annual Players Choice Awards.
Lee, already the winner of the Players Choice Award as the AL's top pitcher and the Sporting News' AL pitcher of the year award, posted a 22-3 record and 2.54 ERA, tying for the major-league lead in wins and compiling the AL's lowest ERA.
This was in sharp contrast to his performance in 2007, when he compiled a 5-8 record and 6.29 ERA. Lee suffered a strained abdominal muscle in spring training and missed the first month of the season.
When he returned, he could not get untracked, was sent to Triple-A Buffalo in July and did not return to the Indians until September. Even after his callup, Lee was not given a spot in the rotation. He ended the season in the bullpen, seldom being used.
Outfielder Fernando Tatis, who batted .297 with 11 homers and 47 RBI in 92 games with the New York Mets, won the Players Choice Award as the National League Comeback Player of the Year after being out of baseball in 2004 and 2005.
He played in 28 games with the Baltimore Orioles in 2006 and spent all of 2007 at Triple-A New Orleans.
— Sheldon Ocker
Ratings down
Television ratings for Game 1 of the World Series were down from last year.
The Philadelphia Phillies' 3-2 win over the Tampa Bay Rays on Fox on Wednesday night earned a 9.2 rating and 15 share, the network said.
That's down 12 percent from the 10.5 for the 2007 Game 1 between the Boston Red Sox and Colorado Rockies, but up 15 percent from the 8.0 for the St. Louis Cardinals-Detroit Tigers two years ago.
The rating is the percentage watching a program among homes with televisions, and the share is the percentage tuned into the broadcast among those homes with TVs on at the time.
Yankees hire scout
Bill Livesey was hired by the New York Yankees as a pro scout, 13 years after he was fired as vice president for player development and scouting.
Livesey, who oversaw the Yankees' draft when they selected Derek Jeter with the sixth pick in 1992, was with the Yankees from 1977-95 as a minor-league manager, area scout, national crosschecker and farm director.
The baseball and soccer coach at St. Petersburg's Eckerd College from 1972-77, he was hired as the Rays' director of player of personnel a week after he was fired by the Yankees.
He became special assistant to the general manager for the Toronto Blue Jays in November 2001, then was hired as special assistant to the GM of the Mets in December 2003.
Mets' coach returns
Randy Niemann is becoming the Mets' bullpen coach for the third time, and Razor Shines was hired as third-base coach under manager Jerry Manuel.
Howard Johnson (hitting coach), Dan Warthen (pitching coach), Sandy Alomar Sr. (bench coach) and Sandy Alomar Jr. (catching instructor) will return. The first-base slot remains open.
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