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George King / New York Post:
HE'S JOE-ING NOWHERE — SOURCE: BOSS WILL KEEP TORRE — EXCLUSIVE After two days of soul searching, George Steinbrenner isn't going to fire Joe Torre, The Post has learned. — According to several sources, The Boss has decided firing Torre isn't the cure for the subterranean problems …
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NY Daily News, Deadspin, Sports Scope, WasWatching.com, Pride of the Yankees, The Sporting Brews, Off the Facade and Bronx Banter
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John Hickey / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Mariners analysis: What would it take? — Mariners could bring back A-Rod for as little as $2.4 million, and Beltre — There was a time, as recently as 2000, when it seemed Alex Rodriguez might never play baseball except as a Seattle Mariner. — There was a time, as recently as this season …
ESPN:
Boss, brass discuss Torre; no timetable on decision — Is Joe Torre in or out? Only New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner knows for sure — and he has yet to officially announce his intentions. — The New York Post, citing several unnamed sources, reported Tuesday that Steinbrenner has decided against firing Torre.
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The View From The Bleachers
NY Daily News:
George bides Torre's time — Report: Jeter pulls for Joe — George Steinbrenner headed back to Tampa last night to mull over whether Joe Torre will return as Yankees manager next season. — Sources told the Daily News over the weekend that Steinbrenner was planning to remove Torre …
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Newsday:
Wallace Matthews — Clear sailing for no-excuse Mets — A week ago today, Omar Minaya, general manager of the National League East champion New York Mets, said these words to me: "We believe we have a chance to win the World Series. But if we don't, I won't be disappointed.
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Ben Shpigel / New York Times:
If It's the Hard Way, It's the Mets' Way — Go back in time, to 2000, the last time the Mets played in the National League Championship Series, and examine their recipe for postseason success. — A competent, though modest, lineup. A meager bullpen. A modicum of team speed.
Tom Krasovic / San Diego Union-Tribune:
Shop 'til they bop — Their lack of power exposed in series vs. Cardinals, Padres need a power hitter, so this offseason they'll . . . ST. LOUIS - Kevin Towers has received an eyeful the past week or so - vivid lessons of October baseball that, to varying degrees, will impact …
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Chicago Sun Times:
Girardi gets warm welcome — Hendry pleased with interview at Wrigley; Padres' Bochy could be dark-horse candidate — Less than a week after he was fired by the Florida Marlins, Joe Girardi was back home Monday, making the rounds at Wrigley Field during an extensive interview with the Cubs for their vacant managerial job.
Barry Svrluga / Washington Post:
Piniella Rules Out Nationals — Club Interviews Astros Coach Cooper, White Sox' Cora — In the midst of being besieged by hypotheticals and what-ifs regarding the manager's position of the New York Yankees Monday afternoon, former big league manager Lou Piniella spoke in vagaries — except when one issue arose.
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William F. Yurasko, District of Baseball, Can't Stop The Bleeding and Ben Maller's Sports …
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Bill Ladson / MLB.com:
Nats add Cora, Cooper to skipper list
Nats add Cora, Cooper to skipper list
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Christina Kahrl / Baseball Prospectus:
Playoff Prospectus — ALCS Preview — Okay, so it's Cinderella with some serious mojo versus the Moneyball-Meets-John Jaha Memorial Edition A's, and everyone's fascinated because it's another delightfully Yankee- and Red Sox-free American League Championship Series involving real ballclubs …
Bill Dwyre / Los Angeles Times:
Lasorda Knows How to Deliver This Pitch — Well, at least one Dodger is still going in the postseason. — The ever-willing, always able Tom Lasorda, the Cy Young of pitchmen and 79-year-old prince of propaganda, has lots of innings left in him before the last out of the 2006 World Series.
Baseball America:
Texas League Top 20 Prospects List — Subscribers can read scouting reports on all 20 players (Click here to subscribe) — The Double-A Texas League had plenty of talent this season, most of it concentrated among four teams. — While Tulsa (six players on this Top 20 list) …
Sal Baxamusa / Hardball Times:
ALCS Preview: Tigers vs. A's — Oakland Athletics: An unconventional team built by a genius architect that can't do jack squat in the playoffs because they value silicon over leather. — Detroit Tigers: An inspiring story of a team that turned around a losing franchise …
Kat O'Brien / Dallas Star-Telegram:
Manager? Jaramillo is happy being a coach — Rangers hitting coach Rudy Jaramillo has taken his name out of the running for the team's managerial vacancy, telling the club he wants to remain in his current capacity. — "I think my heart was always in hitting and always will be," Jaramillo said Monday.