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Anthony DiComo / MLB.com:
Mets acquire Nixon from D-backs — Veteran to join club Saturday; new teammates await arrival — NEW YORK — When the Mets saw their outfield crumble due to injury last season, they did nothing to fix it. Now it's happened again, and this time, the team has acted.
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Mike Puma / New York Post:
MINAYA'S HOT TO TROT FOR NIXON — The Mets will have a new outfielder to Trot out tonight against the Rangers. — General manager Omar Minaya's major transaction yesterday didn't involve firing a manager, but instead consisted of acquiring veteran Trot Nixon from the Diamondbacks for a player to be named later.
Mike Nichols / MetsBlog.com:
News: Mets Acquire Trot Nixon — Following tonight's game, Omar Minaya announced the Mets have acquired OF Trot Nixon from the Diamondbacks for cash or a player to be named later. — Nixon was batting .309 with a .437 OBP, 15 2B, 10 HR and 31 RBI in 181 at-bats for the D-backs Triple-A Tucson affiliate.
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Associated Press, Archie Bunker's Army, MLB Rumors, Blogging The Bombers and River Ave. Blues
Ben Shpigel / New York Times:Mets Add Trot Nixon in a Trade With Arizona
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Faith and Fear in Flushing
Peter Abraham / The LoHud Yankees Blog:
In the rotation and not looking back — Tonight was a bad night for those who believe the Yankees made a mistake taking Joba Chamberlain out of the bullpen. Here's why: — * He threw 88 pitches. Jorge Posada estimated that 55 of them were fastballs. Of that, 10 were two-seam, sinking fastballs.
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George A. King III / New York Post:
THREE-MENDOUS — JOBA STRONG IN 3RD START AS YANKS WIN — When the Yankees' brass decided to take the best set-up man in baseball and turn him into a learn-on-the-job starter, they fantasized about games like last night's. — One day Joba Chamberlain would become their Josh Beckett …
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Bugs & Cranks
Joe Strauss / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Carpenter's return hits a setback — Former Cy Young Award winner Chris Carpenter was examined in St. Louis on Friday after experiencing renewed discomfort in his surgically repaired right elbow and is likely to seek a second opinion regarding his condition soon.
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Gordon Wittenmyer / Chicago Sun Times:
Burnett makes an impression, stifles Cubs — TORONTO — With six weeks to go before the non-waiver trade deadline, interleague play wasn't the only thing the Cubs had a chance to get started Friday night in Toronto. — They also got a chance to start looking firsthand at some of the options …
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MLB Rumors
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Bryan Hoch / MLB.com:
Yanks option Duncan to Triple-A — With club playing the next 16 vs. the NL, reserve sent down — HOUSTON — The more Shelley Duncan sat as a spare part on the Yankees bench, the faster the minutes began to tick on what seemed inevitable. — With the Yankees about to embark on a stretch …
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Evan Grant / Dallas Morning News:
Days may be numbered for Texas Rangers' Tejeda — egrant@dallasnews.com — NEW YORK - The Texas Rangers are likely to expose Robinson Tejeda to the waiver wire for the second time this season today. That is, if they don't have to put Joaquin Benoit on the disabled list first.
Gordon Edes / Boston Globe:
Travel travails: Sox trip again — CINCINNATI - Minor aggravations, major nuisances, a lousy time had by all. — That's how it has been for the Red Sox this spring just about every time they've left Boston, and one night into this six-game trip, which commenced with a 3-1 loss …
John Klein / Tulsa World:
Tulsa needs Rockies, not Texas, on TV — It has been 33 years since the St. Louis Cardinals, tired of waiting on a new Tulsa baseball stadium, pulled out of town for Louisville. — The affection for the Cardinals in this community remains so strong that a local cable television company still makes …
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Purple Row
Matthew Cerrone / MetsBlog.com:
Video: The Willie Randolph Comedy Hour — In the final moments of Willie Randolph's post-game press conference with reporters, the team's public relations guru Jay Howritz informed the room that Omar Minaya would be making an announcement. — Randolph then began to kill time …
