HOT AUGUST NIGHTS FOR BELTRE ENIGMATIC THIRD BASEMAN HAS AGAIN FOUND HIS...

Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  August 26, 2003 ;     700+ words ......the Dodgers can do to convince Adrian Beltre that it is August all season long would do wonders for their playoff chances. Beltre has again salvaged a horrible offensive...second-half surge that seems inexplicable - to Beltre, his teammates and coaches, and everyone...

WHEN IT COMES TO BELTRE, LET FREEDOM WANE.(Sports)

Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  September 9, 2004 ;     700+ words ......having been an issue with Beltre. Still, even if you remove...that may have contributed to Beltre's sudden maturation. The birth...theory that the early-season pain from five bone spurs in Beltre's left ankle somehow were...Davis (.346 in 1962). In May, Beltre faced a decision that ...

COMING OF AGE BELTRE'S GROWING PAINS HAVE MADE THE THIRD BASEMAN OF THE...

Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  October 5, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Gulf Coast Indians. Then there was Adrian Beltre. At an age when hitters are considered advanced if they can hit a curveball, Beltre found himself in the majors, flailing...After only two full seasons in the minors, Beltre joined the Dodgers in June 1998 as their...

Twins' Beltre back at shortstop after stint as pitcher.(SPORTS)

Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  March 3, 1998 ;     482 words ......shortstop-turned pitcher-turned-shortstop Esteban Beltre won't make the Twins' major league roster. It's nothing new to Beltre, 30, a strong-armed infielder who has...letdown. At about this time last season, Beltre was desperate to play in the majors...

Beltre can't make his way out of slump

Daily Breeze;  June 18, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Beltre can't make his way out of slump DODGERS: Young third baseman...Nobody in baseball would suggest that the Dodgers' Adrian Beltre, at the tender age of 23, is washed up or that he has no...that much talent." That much has never been in question. Beltre has beentouted as a future star since he joined ...

Beltre makes 1st journey back to L.A.

Daily Breeze;  June 20, 2006 ;     538 words ...A lot will be different tonight when Adrian Beltre returns to Dodger Stadium. But nothing will be as different as Beltre himself. Beltre's final year in Los Angeles produced a breakthrough season in which he hit...

BELTRE'S STAR HASN'T RISEN.(Sports)(Statistical Data Included)

Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  June 18, 2002 ;     700+ words ......in baseball would suggest that Adrian Beltre, at the tender age of 23, is washed up...That much has never been in question. Beltre has been touted as a future star since...his brief career. In spring training, Beltre, fully recovered from a botched appendectomy...

DODGERS' BELTRE TO HAVE ABDOMINAL SURGERY.(Sports)

Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  March 9, 2001 ;     700+ words ......training as manager. Third baseman Adrian Beltre is the latest PR nightmare for the team...close a draining wound in his abdomen. Beltre will have a piece of his large intestine...Centinela Medical Hospital in Inglewood. Beltre could miss the first month of the season...

SPRING RITUAL FOR BELTRE: TROUBLES.(Sports)

Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  February 18, 2001 ;     644 words ......batting .290 with 85 RBI. Beltre was bulking up in his native...discomfort. So the first inkling Beltre had that the pain that kept piercing his abdomen...appendix ruptured in January. Beltre underwent an emergency appendectomy...I feel a lot better now,'' Beltre said as if to reassure ...

Beltre finally blooms, in time for free agency

Oakland Tribune;  August 29, 2004 ;     700+ words ...THE DODGERS signed Adrian Beltre as an underage 15-year-old, got slapped...Paul DePodesta -- couldn't give up on Beltre. They were fearful of being career-branded...who gave away a megastar. That's what Beltre has become, finally, in 2004. He hit...

FULL SWING AHEAD? THIS TIME, ADRIAN BELTRE DETERMINED TO START THE SEASON...

Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  February 29, 2004 ;     700+ words ......office once jokingly suggested that Adrian Beltre should be hypnotized and made to believe...Dodgers haven't tried in an attempt to get Beltre to produce offensively in the first halves...this time, the Dodgers profess hope that Beltre will start hitting in April and never...

Beltre says Dodgers' offer was too little, too late.

Orange County Register (Santa Ana, CA);  December 18, 2004 ;     524 words ......surgery to remove bone chips, Adrian Beltre had waited long enough. He removed the cast from his left ankle himself. Beltre said he was much more patient with...on, that I would have to leave L.A., Beltre said by phone from Seattle on Friday...

Beltre looks like his old self as Mariners cruise

Daily Breeze;  June 21, 2006 ;     521 words ......one chanted, "M-V-P, M-V-P," when Adrian Beltre came to the plate in the first inning...for a strike, another for a ball. Then Beltre jolted the next one into the right field...time he waved his bat in 2004. Sparked by Beltre's first-inning laser, the Seattle Mariners...

Beltre a legit MVP candidate

New Haven Register;  September 8, 2004 ;     700+ words ...LOS ANGELES -- Adrian Beltre hears the chanting almost everywhere...heard 'round the baseball world: MVP. Beltre, the Dodgers' slugging third baseman...Those guys have always been up there," Beltre said. "I used to see their stats and...

DODGERS NOTEBOOK: BELTRE STARTS TRAINING WITH A (PINKY) BANG.(SPORTS)

Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  February 25, 1999 ;     491 words ......Brian Dohn Daily News Staff Writer Adrian Beltre's first big-league camp as the Dodgers...first full-squad workout, he was injured. Beltre slammed his right pinky finger in his...at the beginning of the season,'' said Beltre, who worked on conditioning on Wednesday...