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Trade Deadline: Justin Upton to remain a member of the Diamondbacks 07.24.12 at 3:24 pm ET
By Kevin Dillon

Justin Upton

After weeks of speculation, it appears Justin Upton will remain the Diamondbacks’ right fielder this season as team president Derrick Hall said Tuesday that there is “close to a 100 percent chance nothing happens.”

“We’ll field all proposals and conversations,” Hall said. “You never know. But I would be surprised if anything happens in the offseason, either.”

Upton, who finished last season fourth in the NL MVP voting after hitting .289 with 31 home runs, was the subject of many trade rumors since before the All-Star break when the Diamondbacks were listening to trade offers for him.

The 2005 first-overall selection struggled at the beginning of this season but has been heating up lately, hitting .417 in his last seven games to improve his average to .276.

Upton was rumored to have interested teams such as the Blue Jays, Pirates, Tigers, Braves, and the Rangers. The Red Sox, Yankees, Cubs and Indians were all blocked from trading for Upton thanks to a clause in the 24-year-old’s six-year, $51.25 million contract extension he signed in 2010.

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  • WHO CARES

    ALL GOOD PLAYERS SHOULD HAVE THAT CLAUSE NOT TO BE TRADED TO THE CUBS UNLESS YOUR A FREE AGENT.

  • jaypop

    the problem is the coaching , the sooner DA sees that, the sooner he can correct it. Doc is not the answer going forward , as much praise as he gets is as much blame he should receive . Doc must not know Einstein’s deffenition of insanity , cause he keeps doing the same thing and expects different results !!!

  • dpalm789

    wellllllllll nooooooooo friggan shhh******t u didnt show up in the second half, literally didnt show up, 23 points in the 2nd half? what the hell is wrong with this team

  • https://twitter.com/BostonSportFan1 ChrisinDanvers

    Hmmmm….I am not sure how you blame the coach on this one. He has professionals on this team who should know how to play and should be able to score more than 71 pts. Not his fault for this particular loss. The team is out of sync, out of touch with how to play with each other, and out of gas.

    As for not showing up in the second half, the Celtics have tended to have either a poor 2nd quarter or poor 3rd quarter showing for the whole year. It started in the 1st preseason loss to the team overseas. There has been something amiss with this team since then; and it has been hard to put a finger on it. No, it is not the coach. No, it is not DA. A team made of – originally – 12 players who all had been starters in their careers (that is not including Sullinger) should have won the 56-60 games most pundits predicted them to win. It just is not clicking here.

  • jaypop

    not blaming Doc for this one loss , blaming him for a whole bunch of losses. Realizing he has a bunch of pros playing for him , but it is his job and his job alone to get these guys to play as a team. He must realize what they are doing is not working so you do something else. He’s doesn’t do anything !!! that’s the problem. Keeps running the same guys out there to do the same things over and over. Doc always reverts back to the same guys whether or not if they’re playing well. He had guys like Williams and Randolph contributing and most importantly playing with confidence. Where are they now??? end of the bench.. Yeah you can put a lot of blame on Doc..

  • mike

    The team was ahead by 9 and 4 straight turnovers by pierce
    Pierce suck and rivers is afraid of him
    Rivers Garnet Pierce Terry are the reason Boston sucks
    Rivers does not know how to coach
    with what happen to.boston you would think the Bruins and Celtics would dig deep and give there all but they did not no heart no effort

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