Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Converted shortstop made rapid progress through system Sergio Santos had brief doubts last summer about a transformation that took him back to where he started his professional career seven years ago.
Beyond the Boxscore (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
More photos » by Manuel Balce Ceneta - AP Drew Storen can do this for real, too. Browse more photos » I like the Arizona Fall League. I've been tracking and classifying a lot pitches, thanks to the PITCHf/x installations in Peoria and Surprise. Nearly 10,000 pitches through Saturday's Rising Stars Game. Let's take a look-see at some of my favorite stats. These are based only on PITCHf/x...
South Side Sox (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Jordan Danks does it for the kids. View full size photo » This month: Jordan Danks has been the outstanding performer so far for the White Sox winter ballas. Shaking off his poor, potentially injury induced, second half of 2009, he's gone .333/.450/.485 in 18 games. Watch him this Saturday at 7:15pm on MLB Network in the AFL Rising Stars Game. The White Sox originally sent a bunch of junk to...
Mopupduty.com (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Remember Sergio Santos? If you don’t, here is a refresher: Santos was drafted by the Arizona Diamondbacks in the first round of the 2002 Major League Baseball Draft. Between 2002 and 2005, Santos steadily worked his way up through the Diamondbacks’ farm system all the way to Triple-A Tucson, where he hit 21 doubles and 12 [...]
Lean Blog (Free subscription) | 07/23/2009
Report: Toyota to liquidate its stake in Fremont's NUMMI plant - San Jose Mercury News Toyota has not confirmed, but reports say NUMMI will be over after a 25 year run. Toyota Motor Corp. has decided it will dissolve its stake in the NUMMI auto factory it operated here with General Motors Corp., leaving union officials at the plant dismayed and disappointed. The Japanese car maker will begin negotiations...
Apartment Therapy - Chicago (Free subscription) | 06/12/2009
Could you live in 77sqft? If you could touch both sides of your space at the same time, could you weasel in a mini-kitchen, spacious office and a bedroom? Sergio Santos downsized his housing when t
The Blog of Walker (Free subscription) | 06/12/2009
The man who lives in a closet: DELRAY BEACH, FL--Almost everybody has heard the phrase, "Home Sweet Home", but what about "Closet Sweet Closet"? That's right, Sergio Santos' home is a closet. Five and a half feet wide, by 14 feet long, or 77 square feet, to be exact. "I was really struggling to pay for the place I used to live. I decided to look for something cheap." said...
UniqueDaily.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
“Almost everybody has heard the phrase, “Home Sweet Home”, but what about “Closet Sweet Closet”? That’s right, Sergio Santos’ home is a closet. Five and a half feet wide, by 14 feet long, or 77 square feet, to be exact. “I was really struggling to pay for the place I used to live. I decided [...]
Morninpaper (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Post As a bachelor, Sergio Santos is doing it up right. The Delray Beach, Florida man resides in a 77 square ft closet that he has converted into a home. Santos pays $150 a month, and his bank account is probably getting fat. Click the VIDEO tab above to watch clip. [...]
clusterflock (Free subscription) | 06/05/2009
Florida architect Sergio Santos is riding out the recession in his new $150/month, 77 sq/ft closet-turned-apartment. Santos invested $64 to convert the closet into an apartment using found materials.
Archinect (Free subscription) | 06/04/2009
Florida architect Sergio Santos is riding out the recession in his new $150/month, 77 sq/ft closet-turned-apartment. Santos invested $64 to convert the closet into an apartment using found materials. WDSU
McCovey Chronicles (Free subscription) | 05/29/2009
More photos » by Kevin P. Casey - AP Huh? Browse more photos » There's a certain kind of symmetry in the Braves leaving and the Cardinals arriving. For years -- decades, even -- it was the Braves who stayed competitive, no matter what freaky roster changes they needed to make. My favorite Braves move was Brian McCann's call up. Oh, we'll just take this 22-year-old catcher with 165 at-bats...
McCovey Chronicles (Free subscription) | 03/23/2009
Rosterbation, fancy table-style: Points: Andrew Baggarly wrote that Sergio Santos was acquired to play short for Fresno because Burriss is staying with the big club, so I’m comfortable with Burriss in the "almost certainly"-column. His .407/.458/.463 line is probably helping his cause. Burriss’s line, that is. Not Baggarly’s. If Eugenio Velez makes the team, it’s because...
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