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Ken Rosenthal / Fox Sports:
Jays' Halladay all but gone in Toronto — Ken Rosenthal has been the senior baseball writer for FOXSports.com since Aug. 2005. He appears weekly on the FSN Baseball Report and MLB on FOX. — add this — Let the Roy Halladay sweepstakes begin. — “We have to see what's out there …
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Buster Olney / Associated Press:
Roy Halladay offers will be considered, Toronto Blue Jays GM says — Toronto Blue Jays General Manager J.P. Ricciardi has spoken with Roy Halladay and prepared him for the possibility that he will bring trade possibilities to the pitcher in the weeks or months ahead.
MLBastian / Major League Bastian:
Game 85: Toronto at Tampa Bay pregame — So Blue Jays general manager J.P. Ricciardi has let it be known that he's willing to entertain trade offers for ace Roy Halladay. Toronto isn't shopping its best player, but the club is at least admitting that it will listen to what is out there.
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Bill Shaikin / LA Times Sports Blog:
Hey, Dodgers and Angels fans, what's your trade for Roy Halladay? — The best pitcher in baseball might well be Toronto's Roy Halladay. The Blue Jays' general manager, J.P. Ricciardi, has spent the last two days telling everyone that he will listen to offers for Halladay.
Peter Abraham / The LoHud Yankees Blog:
Game 83: Yankees at Twins (Aceves to start on Thursday) — YANKEES (48-34) — Pitching: LHP CC Sabathia (7-5, 3.85). — TWINS (43-40) — Span LF — Harris SS — Mayer C — Morneau 1B — Cuddyer RF — Crede 3B — Young DH — Gomez CF — Punto 2B
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Erik Boland / E-Boland and the Bombers:
Aceves to start Thursday — Joe Girardi announced during his pregame meeting with reporters that Alfredo Aceves would get the start Thursday. — “We feel, out of the options, he's the most stretched out for us and figure he can give us 65 pitches on Thursday,” Girardi said.
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Jim Baumbach / Newsday:
Would having Manny really be so bad? — Remember when news first broke of Manny Ramirez's 50-game suspension, how Mets fans everywhere had this huge sigh of relief? Close call, they thought. That could have been us! But flash forward two months, and do Mets fans still feel that way? Doubtful.
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Bryan Hoch / MLB.com:
Jeter has issue with ump's reasoning — Girardi ejected after shortstop was called out on slide at third — NEW YORK — Derek Jeter's lengthy Major League career has featured many events on the playing field, but thus far, he has been able to avoid an ejection.
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Mark Newman / MLB.com:
Kinsler, Sandoval early Final Vote leaders — Rangers 2B, Giants 3B leading out of gate for All-Star spot — Rangers second baseman Ian Kinsler and Giants third baseman Pablo Sandoval are the early leaders in the 2009 All-Star Game Sprint Final Vote, which is under way through 4 p.m. ET on Thursday exclusively at MLB.com.
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Sky Andrecheck / Baseball Analysts:
Is The All-Star Game The Biggest Remaining Game for Dodgers? — A week from today, the Major League All-Star Game will be be played between the American and National leagues. Traditionally the greatest exhibition in all of sports, the game changed in 2003 when Bud Selig decreed that the winner …
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Christian Caple / MLB.com:
Bedard's return to force rotation choice — Seattle (43-39) vs. Baltimore (36-47), 7:10 p.m. PT — SEATTLE — Mariners manager Don Wakamatsu is going to be one heck of a juggler by the time this season is over. — He's already had to deal with a batch of injuries that has leveled …
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Ken Rosenthal / Fox Sports:
Vazquez has too much value for Braves to move — Ken Rosenthal has been the senior baseball writer for FOXSports.com since Aug. 2005. He appears weekly on the FSN Baseball Report and MLB on FOX. — add this — Teams can call all they want on right-hander Javier Vazquez, but why would the Braves trade him?
Joe Frisaro / MLB.com:
Marlins close to adding vet Williamson — Right-handed reliever last pitched in Majors in 2007 — MIAMI — The Marlins are adding another veteran reliever to their system. — According to a Major League source, the team is finalizing the signing of right-hander Scott Williamson to a Minor League contract.
Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Seeking a Way to Predict Baseball Injuries — LOS ANGELES — Beyond the massage tables and stacks of athletic tape in the Dodgers' cramped training room stands a dry-erase board with scribbled questions like “Fat? Skinny?” and “Country of origin? Region of the country they grew up in?”
Charles P. Pierce / Slate:
Manny Ramirez reveals our true attitude about baseball's drug war. — Well, it seems that Manny Ramirez is back with the Los Angeles Dodgers, having done his time both under suspension and in Albuquerque, N.M., which seems just a touch redundant. (He also briefly played against Lake Elsinore …
Bruce / Chicago's Inside Pitch:
Dempster to DL with broken toe — How about this? The Cubs just announced they've put pitcher Ryan Dempster on the DL with a “great right toe fracture.” That's not so great. — Demp was supposed to start tonight, but Big Z will replace him. The Cubs have recalled Kevin Hart from Iowa …
Associated Press:
Diamondbacks 6, Padres 5 — PHOENIX (AP) — Mark Reynolds singled home Justin Upton with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning as the Arizona Diamondbacks rallied to edge the San Diego Padres 6-5 on Monday night. — Upton drew a two-out walk from Cla Meredith (4-2) …
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Bruce Golding / New York Post:
WEE CHANGE FOR YANKEES — Yankee fans are now at liberty to go to the bathroom during the playing of “God Bless America” during the seventh-inning stretch, thanks to a settlement reached yesterday in Manhattan federal court. — Signing off on the deal were the Yankees …
JSOnline:
Melvin “ticked off” at Braun — By Tom Haudricourt of the Journal Sentinel — I think it's safe to say that Brewers general manager Doug Melvin is more than a bit upset with leftfielder Ryan Braun. — I spoke with Melvin on the telephone a little while ago about the comments made by Braun …
