ut him but hes happy to make it all about Cooper Cronk.Green had planned to postpone news of his off-season switch to Manly until the end of the year but w

Departing Melbourne Storm five-eighth Blake Green never wanted the NRL finals to be about him but hes happy to make it all about Cooper Cronk.Green had planned to postpone news of his off-season switch to Manly until the end of the year but with the announcement made public on the weekend hes now hoping the spotlight moves on to his champion halves partner.Cronk will become just the 25th player to reach the 300-game milestone when he runs out in the preliminary final against the Raiders at AAMI Park on Saturday night.Green has played with Cronk in 48 of those game, with the pair key to the Storms surge to the final four.Im glad the announcement is out of the way and we can focus on a big milestone this week in Coopers 300th game, Green said.Its a massive achievement, not just for the club but for him personally ... hes the ultimate professional.Hopefully we can put in a good performance so he has good memories of the night.Green said the decision to leave Melbourne after two seasons was tough.Its not one I planned on making but with salary caps you cant keep everyone, he said.He played at three Sydney NRL clubs before shifting to the UK, but has been in some of his finest form since joining the Storm at the start of the 2015 season.Green credited Cronk with helping him resurrect his NRL career.Ive learnt a heap of technical things from him but the most beneficial is probably to keep a calm head, Green said.He is really calm in the high pressure situations, hes never erratic, he always knows what to do and hopefully some of thats rubbed off on me.The Storm will go into the preliminary final as favourites but the Raiders convincingly won their last clash last month. 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Moss was also credited with helping develop Lance Parrish into a star catcher at Triple A after the Tigers converted him from third base. So Les Moss, a former journeyman catcher in the big leagues was not without credentials. Moss managed the Tigers to a 27-26 record when suddenly out of the blue, he was fired. Detroit management had nothing against Moss performance or the teams record. They simply felt a better man was available and they wanted him before he was snapped up by another team. That man was George Sparky Anderson, who led the Big Red Machine to two World Series titles in the mid-70s but had been fired by the Reds well after the 1978 season ended. In fact, he was let go after the club made a post-season trip to Japan. It was also after the Tigers had hired Les Moss as their skipper. As classless a move as it originally appeared to fire Moss after just a third of a season and with no apparent cause, the Tigers werent about to let Sparky get away. Hiring Anderson turned out to be the right move. Though they won only one World Series under Sparky, the Tigers were the American League team of the 80s. Sparky went on to manage the club through the end of the 1995 season and still has the most victories of any manager in Tigers history (1,331). Moss continued as a coach in the Majors and even made it to the posst-season as a pitching coach in Houston, but he never got the chance to manager in the big leagues again.dddddddddddd Would the Blue Jays use the same logic to replace John Gibbons? At some point maybe, but not now. As youre no doubt tired of hearing, its too early. Injury Concerns? Over the weekend, I was going over some of the Blue Jays minor league stats and saw something that really caught me off guard. There are seven pitchers on the 7-day disabled list at Double A New Hampshire, including three of the Jays top pitching prospects, righthanders John Stilson and lefty Sean Nolin. I made a couple of phone calls and learned that these three werent actually with the Fisher Cats but in Florida for extended spring training. The people I spoke with didnt believe the problems these three had were anything serious, but neither did they know when any of the three would be reporting to Double A. Jenkins pitched a bit in middle relief with the Blue Jays late last season while Stilson really impressed John Gibbons in spring training and Nolin may actually be the best of the three. This is a situation worth keeping an eye on. What a Comeback David Ortiz is already a front running candidate for Comeback Player of the Year in the American League. After losing the bulk of last season to an achilles tendon injury, Ortiz has been on fire since rejoining the BoSox about a week into this season. Hes put together a 25-game hit streak, is batting .440, has four homers and 17 runs batted in. 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