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Yankees call up Claggett  —  TORONTO — Right-handed reliever Anthony Claggett has joined the Yankees for their game tonight against the Blue Jays at Rogers Centre.  —  Claggett, 25, was 4-6 with a 3.02 ERA in 32 games (two starts) for Scranton-Wilkes Barre (Triple-A).
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Peter Abraham / The LoHud Yankees Blog:
Game 107: Yankees at Blue Jays  —  YANKEES (64-42)  —  Pitching: RHP Sergio Mitre (1-0, 7.80).  —  BLUE JAYS (51-55)  —  Scutaro SS  —  Hill 2B  —  Lind DH  —  Overbay 1B  —  Wells CF  —  Rios RF  —  Encarnacion 3B  —  Barajas C  —  Inglett LF  —  Pitching: LHP Mark Rzepczynski (1-2, 3.25).
Anthony DiComo / MLB.com:
Mechanics key to Mitre's effectiveness
Associated Press:
Prince Fielder of Milwaukee Brewers tries to charge Los Angeles Dodgers clubhouse after beaning … LOS ANGELES — Not even Prince Fielder really knows what he might have done if a phalanx of security guards and teammates hadn't prevented the furious Milwaukee Brewers slugger from entering …
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Los Angeles Times:
Dodgers are red hot, while Brewers' Fielder is just hot  —  The Milwaukee slugger, hit by a Mota pitch in the ninth inning, tries to get into the Dodgers' clubhouse after the game.  —  Prince Fielder apparently wanted to deliver a message of his own late Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium …
Adam McCalvy / MLB.com:
Furious Fielder charges LA clubhouse
Yahoo! Sports:
25 things you didn't know about baseball  —  Buzz up!  —  I have found baseball nerd heaven, and it is a place called FanGraphs.  —  Earlier this year, the invaluable repository for statistics unveiled its pitch-type linear weights.  Do not be scared by the math jargon.
Discussion: Cutoff Man
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Marc Carig / New Jersey Online:
NY Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte keeps roll going, has cutter to thank … TORONTO — While Jose Molina didn't appear in Tuesday's 5-3 Yankees victory against the Blue Jays, he might have made a call that figured significantly in the outcome.  —  As Chris at The Yankee Universe astutely pointed …
Joe Posnanski:
Yuni Watch ... and, yes, my life  —  Yuniesky Betancourt ... and my professional future.  All in one blog post!  —  Yes, true, I had put the Yuni Watch away ... but I thought it would not be fair to allow Yuniesky Betancourt's back-to-back two-hit days — which included a double …
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Jon Heyman / Sports Illustrated:
Jays GM Ricciardi looks like a lame duck after botching Halladay talks … Call them the Blew Jays.  Because they blew the Roy Halladay trade talks big time.  —  Sure, the Jays still have Halladay, the best pitcher in baseball.  But by all appearances it's a disappointed Halladay, who expected to be gone from Toronto by now.
Ben Nicholson-Smith / MLB Rumors:
Super Two Update: Maybin, Snider  —  Certain players come closer to Super Two status with every day they spend in the majors.  The more service time they get, the closer they come to securing a fourth year of arbitration and a bigger payday.  Cameron Maybin and Travis Snider could set themselves …
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Ryan Greene / Las Vegas Sun Blogs:
51s' Snider named PCL Player of the Week
Discussion: The Mockingbird
Jerry Crasnick / MLB:
Doug Davis, Heath Bell and Lyle Overbay among players who could move in August waiver trades  —  The July non-waiver trade deadline has passed, and Major League Baseball's August trade deadline is approaching.  —  It's the same thing, only with more gamesmanship, smaller names in play and no real sense of anticipation.
Discussion: At Home Plate
Jonah Keri / Sports Illustrated:
Suddenly, that famous Volquez-for-Hamilton deal has lost its luster … The rarest occurrence in baseball isn't a perfect game, a cycle, or even an afternoon without New York sports talk radio ranting that [Joba Chamberlain] Phil Hughes is the most irreplaceable relief pitcher of all time.
Discussion: MLB Rumors
Adam Kilgore / Boston Globe:
Sting Rays  —  Longoria makes it hurt as Tampa outlasts Sox  —  Takashi Saito felt the heat after walking Michel Hernandez to open the 13th.  (Scott Audette/ Reuters)  —  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Earning a playoff spot in the American League East may be baseball's most arduous challenge this year.
Discussion: NESN.com and Surviving Grady
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Billfer / The Detroit Tiger Weblog:
Avila and Lambert up  —  It's almost like the Tigers got a bulk discount on a shuttle between Toledo and Detroit.  Wilkin Ramirez's stay in the Detroit was very brief and expressly for the purpose of facing Brian Matusz.  Chris Lambert will replace him on the roster.  But that's not all my friends.
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Jonathan Mayo / MLB.com:
Clock ticking for teams to sign top picks  —  Twenty yet to come to terms as Aug. 17 deadline approaches  —  With fewer than two weeks to go before the First-Year Player Draft signing deadline, there are only 12 first-round picks who have signed with their respective teams.
Tom Singer / MLB.com:
Abreu named AL Player of Month for July  —  Outfielder bats .380, compensate for loss of Vlad, Hunter  —  Bobby Abreu, whose recent performance helped compensate for the injury absences of Torii Hunter and Vladimir Guerrero and kept the Angels flying high in the West, has been named …
Discussion: Bronx Baseball Daily
Josh Wilker / ESPN:
Steps for attaining baseball happiness  —  1. Buy a pack of baseball cards.  For best results, pay no more than a quarter and make sure the pack has a hard stick of gum sliding around loose inside.  If packs long ago stopped costing a quarter or less and no longer include flour-flecked sticks …
Vince Gennaro / Wall Street Journal:
When the Bond Market Meets a Baseball Prospect  —  The Washington Nationals' hopes of reaching respectability may rest with the signing of Stephen Strasburg, the pitching sensation the team picked first overall in baseball's amateur draft.  But here's the burning question: How much is the right-handed fireballer worth?
Discussion: William World News
Tony Massarotti / Boston Globe:
Union will not file order for Ortiz results  —  While David Ortiz assured that he will soon address last Thursday's New York Times report that he failed a test for performance-enhancing substances in 2003, the reasons behind Ortiz's delay in addressing the matter remained uncertain today.
Discussion: Full Count, SOX & Dawgs and YFSF
 
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