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Tim Dierkes / MLB Rumors:
Coco Crisp Traded To Royals — By Tim Dierkes [November 19 at 11:09am CST] — 11:09am: The deal is official, according to a Royals press release. — 10:23am: SI.com's Jon Heyman confirms the deal. — 10:02am: Red Sox exec Ben Cherington was on XM's MLB Home Plate radio station recently.
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Chad Finn / Boston Globe:
Crisp traded to Royals — The Red Sox have traded center fielder Coco Crisp to the Royals for righthanded relief pitcher Ramon Ramirez, a major league baseball source confirmed to the Globe's Nick Cafardo this morning. The Red Sox formally announced the deal at noon, and general manager Theo Epstein …
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Dick Kaegel / MLB.com:
Red Sox deal Crisp to Royals — Boston receives reliever Ramirez in return for center fielder — KANSAS CITY — The Royals acquired center fielder Coco Crisp from the Boston Red Sox on Wednesday in exchange for relief pitcher Ramon Ramirez. — The deal was announced by the Royals at 11 a.m. CT.
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Fox Sports:
Sources: Red Sox interested in Burnett — Imagine A.J. Burnett in the Red Sox's rotation. Scary. Ken Rosenthal has learned the interest is there to possibly make it happen.
Tony Massarotti / Boston Globe:
Expect Sox to break bank for Teixeira — Here's a prediction: By the time this is over, win or lose, the Red Sox effectively will have made Mark Teixeira the largest contract offer in the history of your storied franchise. — Preposterous, you say? Clearly, you have not been paying attention.
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Mark Feinsand / NY Daily News:
Yankees and Red Sox in battle over pitcher A.J. Burnett — The Yankees and Red Sox won't meet again on the field until April, but the two American League East rivals are preparing to square off for the services of at least one major free agent in the coming weeks.
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Rotoworld.com:
Report: Red Sox trade Coco Crisp to Royals — Sports Radio 810 WHB in Kansas City reports that the Red Sox have traded Coco Crisp to the Royals in exchange for Ramon Ramirez. — Former Royals outfielder Brian McRae broke the story, but we're still waiting to see the move confirmed by other sources.
Jim Molony / MLB.com:
Crisp headed to KC, radio station says — Red Sox would get reliever Ramirez in return for center fielder — The Red Sox have sent outfielder Coco Crisp to the Royals for reliever Ramon Ramirez, a Kansas City radio station reported Wednesday morning. — A Red Sox spokesperson said the club had no comment on the report.
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Michael Silverman / Boston Herald:Red Sox acquire Ramon Ramirez for Coco Crisp
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Cardboard Gods: Freddie Patek — In 1971, Bobby Murcer hit .331 with a .427 on-base percentage. He was the most effective offensive performer in the league, evidenced by the statistical measure that best adjusts for league and park conditions, OPS+; Murcer posted a league-high 181 in that category.
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Amalie Benjamin / Boston Globe:Hardware score — Pedroia adds MVP to his trophy haul
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New York Post:
BERNIE: I'M NOT DONE YET — Musician Bernie Williams said last night he has a new CD coming out in April called “Moving Forward.” — Just in case any GMs like Brian Cashman are interested, Williams also said he has not shut the door on his baseball career. Williams, 40, is not totally ready to move forward away from baseball.
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Dan Hayes / North County Times:
PADRES: Where are all of Peavy's suitors? — Cubs may be out of running after re-signing Dempster — The news that the Chicago Cubs signed pitcher Ryan Dempster on Tuesday could severely affect the club's participation in the Jake Peavy sweepstakes. — But according to some published reports, it might not.
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Dan Graziano / New Jersey Online:
Tough to find the right fit to bolster the Mets' offense — Of course they need a closer, and a couple of starting pitchers, and at least a couple of new faces in the bullpen setup corps. This is where the Mets' off-season focus is right now, and where it should be.
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Richard Justice / Houston Chronicle:
Commentary: Valverde, Wigginton have to go — Goodbye, Jose Valverde. You, too, Ty Wigginton. Pick up your lovely parting gifts at the door. — The Astros seem likely to trade both of them in the next few weeks. You won't like the reason. Don't shoot the messenger.
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Dan Graziano / New Jersey Online:
Yankees-Sabathia: What's the holdup? — Things don't move as quickly this time of year as we all hope they would or think they should. The Yankees offered CC Sabathia $140 million for six years last Friday, and the popular question now is: “What's taking him so long?”
Ken Davidoff / Newsday:
Mets have choice of either K-Rod or Fuentes — The Mets have many goals and many choices in this baseball offseason, but as they take in the lay of the land now, they think they know this: — Acquiring a closer will be first on their list of accomplishments.
Troy Renck / All Things Rockies:
Wakamatsu to Mariners, Dempster contract info — It was eight days ago that reality intervened with vacation. I was supposed to be on vacation when Matt Holliday was traded to the Oakland Athletics. It brought to mind not Dante Bichette, but Dante from “Clerks.”
Thomas Boswell / Baseball Insider:
MVPs: Howard & K-Rod, Not Pujols & Pedroia — Thirty years ago, I created the statistic Total Average. Now I'm almost ashamed to have been one of the original baseball geeks. Where did we go wrong? — This week, Albert Pujols won the NL MVP Award. Why?
