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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.
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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Kat O'Brien / Newsday:
Source: Yanks still trying to woo Burnett — The Yankees still are preparing a formal offer for righthanded pitcher A.J. Burnett, a club official said yesterday, but the Red Sox have become serious competitors to land him. — The Red Sox's pursuit of Burnett complicates the Yankees' plans.
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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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?
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Amalie Benjamin / Boston Globe:Hardware score — Pedroia adds MVP to his trophy haul
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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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David Lennon / Newsday:
Bernie still not ready for the retired life — Bernie Williams, part-time musician and now actor, still won't commit full-time to retirement. Williams, who will have a featured role in the upcoming movie, “Keeper of the Pinstripes,” remains hopeful that his baseball career is not quite over.
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Matthew Cerrone / MetsBlog.com:
News: Murphy has a Knee Sprain — According to a league source, Mets 2B Daniel Murphy suffered a right knee sprain in the Arizona Fall League, which is why he has not played since Nov. 10. — Murphy had been hitting .397 with 18 RBI in 15 games during the AFL.
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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?”
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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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.
Associated Press:
Mariners hire A's coach Wakamatsu as manager — SEATTLE (AP) — Don Wakamatsu has been officially named the new manager of the Seattle Mariners, becoming the first Asian-American field boss in Major League Baseball history. — The 14th manager in Mariners history, Wakamatsu was bench coach for the Oakland Athletics last season.
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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.”
