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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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Mike Puma / New York Post:
GIRARDI CALLS OUT JETER AFTER BAD CALLS BEDEVIL YANKEES — BLUE JAYS 7 YANKEES 6 — The ABCs of baseball conspired yesterday to end the Yankees' homestand on a sour note. — “Atrocious” starting pitching, “brutal” umpiring and “Captain” Jeter were the culprits.
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Peter Abraham / The LoHud Yankees Blog:
Game 83: Yankees at Twins (Updates: Aceves to start Thurs., Halladay talk and Girardi pre-game audio) — 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
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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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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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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.
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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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?”
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Dan Steinberg / D.C. Sports Bog:
Rizzo: “We Are Not Trading Adam Dunn” — There are plenty of reasons to watch every Nats game this season. The starting pitchers. The chance that you'll see something the universe has never seen before. Rob Dibble. A vain hope that more hot dogs will explode. — And, of course, the chance to watch Adam Dunn.
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Ben Goessling / Washington Times:
Missed opportunities doom Nats, Stammen
Missed opportunities doom Nats, Stammen
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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 …
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 …
Dave Allen / FanGraphs Baseball:
Chris Davis Had a Hard Time Making Contact — On Sunday the Rangers sent Chris Davis down to AAA. After a good rookie season last year Davis' performance took a step back this year. His power is still there (23% HR/FB), but his already poor strikeout rate has ballooned up to an unacceptable 44.2% K/AB.