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David Lennon / On the Mets beat:
Wagner to have surgery — out for year (update) — The Mets learned today that Billy Wagner has a torn MCL in his left elbow and will need season-ending surgery that is likely to sideline him for most of 2009 as well, a person familiar with the situation said.
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Anthony McCarron / NY Daily News:
Wagner out for season with elbow injury, could miss '09 — Mets closer Billy Wagner has a torn ligament in his left elbow and will have surgery this week, meaning he'll miss the rest of this season and likely all of 2009, too. — The surgery will repair a torn MCL ligament and a torn flexor pronator …
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Dan Graziano / New Jersey Online:
Report: New York Mets' Billy Wagner to have surgery, could miss 2009 season — A Mets team official confirmed that Mets closer Billy Wagner will have elbow surgery this week and will miss the remainder of his season and possibly the entire 2009 season as well.
Matthew Cerrone / MetsBlog.com:
News: Wagner out for Season with Surgery — According to Ted Berg of SNY, citing a ‘team official,’ Billy Wagner will miss the rest of the year with a tear of his flexor pronator and MCL in his left elbow. — He will have surgery as soon as this weekend, and could be out for up to one year.
Ted Berg / SNY.tv:
Wagner's Mets career in jeopardy — Closer to miss 12 months with tear of flexor pronator and MCL — According to a Mets team official, Billy Wagner was examined Monday in New York and diagnosed with a tear of his flexor pronator and MCL in his left elbow.
David Lennon / Newsday:Mets' Maine to return as a relief pitcher?
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Amy K. Nelson / ESPN:
Delgado continues his rebirth … NEW YORK — He was being chided in this city, practically booed out of town. It was only a few months ago that Carlos Delgado was refusing curtain calls while careening toward a possible platoon at first base. — Then it was late June, Willie Randolph was fired …
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John Harper / NY Daily News:Harper: Santana comes up aces in his biggest start yet
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Kat O'Brien / Newsday:
A-Rod's slip of tongue indicts fading Yankees — SEATTLE - Even Alex Rodriguez seems to have realized that the Yankees are not playoff-bound. — After a 5-2 loss to the Mariners yesterday knocked them into fourth place in the American League East, behind the Rays, Red Sox and now the Blue Jays …
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Associated Press:
Rain postpones Blue-Jays-White Sox — CHICAGO (AP) — Rain forced the postponement of Monday night's Toronto Blue Jays at Chicago White Sox's game. It will be made up as part of a split doubleheader beginning at 1:05 Tuesday. — The four-game series that was to have started at U.S. Cellular …
Krisztina Holly / Business Week:
Manny Ramirez: Baseball's Most Innovative Player — Why the Dodgers' dreadlocked bad-boy is the best thing to happen to L.A. since martinis and plastic surgery — Manny Ramirez and his dreadlocks have a lock on L.A. Dodgers' fans' hearts and minds, and are a shoo-in for the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Gordon Wittenmyer / Chicago Sun Times:
Cubs not panicking — yet — Reds rally for 3 in ugly 9th to hand Cubs 7th loss in last 8 games — CINCINNATI — Is it time to panic yet? — Cubs first baseman Derrek Lee says no. But the state of the team after what might have been its toughest loss of the season Sunday makes you wonder.
Amalie Benjamin / Boston Globe:
Ortiz: ‘My hand is not OK’ — DAVID ORTIZFirst homer in 20 games (Tony Gutierrez/Associated Press) — ARLINGTON, Texas - When David Ortiz smashed a pitch from Brandon McCarthy off the facing of the second deck at Rangers Ballpark at Arlington in yesterday's game against Texas, it marked his first home run in 20 games.
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Stefanie Cohen / New York Post:
LAWSUIT CALLS FOUL ON METS' SEAT SWITCH — First they bled him for cash - then they put him in the nosebleeds. — Lifelong Mets fan Judd Burstein says the club sold him two years' worth of season tickets at Shea Stadium on the promise that when the team moved into its new home next year, he'd score choice seats.
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Associated Press:
Former player, manager Gutteridge dies at age 96 — PITTSBURG, Kan. — Don Gutteridge, who played for four major league teams and managed the Chicago White Sox in 1969 and 1970, died at his home. He was 96. — He died Sunday after contracting pneumonia about a month ago, son Don Gutteridge Jr. said.
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Marc Topkin / St. Petersburg Times:
Rays' Maddon says Percival is still closer — Rays trainer Ron Porterfield checks Matt Garza after Marco Scutaro's liner hit the pitcher's forearm in the fifth. Garza was fine. — TORONTO — Troy Percival's latest struggles have not shaken the confidence manager Joe Maddon has in him.
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Charlie / Bucs Dugout:
Pirates Tie Major Sport Record for Most Consecutive Losing Seasons — As with many historic events, this one resulted from a remarkable convergence of factors—spectacularly incompetent management; tight-fisted, complacent ownership; a generally pretty ambivalent fanbase …
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