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6:15 PM ET, May 24, 2010

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Peter Abraham / Boston Globe:
Game 46: Red Sox at Rays  —  The road trip continues with the first of three games in Tampa.  Here are the lineups for Game 1 of should be an interesting series:  —  RED SOX (24-21)  —  Ellsbury CF  —  Pedroia 2B  —  Martinez C  —  Youkilis 1B  —  Ortiz DH  —  Drew RF  —  Beltre 3B
Discussion: The Joy of Sox
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Howard Bryant / ESPN:
Perspective on a team in transition
Discussion: Boston Globe
Charles P. Pierce / Boston Globe:
The calmest man in the clubhouse
Discussion: The Joy of Sox and Cursed To First
Fox Sports:
Rosenthal: Imagining the Oswalt market  —  Ken Rosenthal has been the senior baseball writer for FOXSports.com since Aug. 2005.  He appears weekly on MLB on FOX.  Follow him on Twitter.  —  Fast forward to July ...  Astros general manager Ed Wade walks into owner Drayton McLane's office …
Keith Law / ESPN:
MLB mock draft 1.0  —  Bryce Harper is solid at No. 1, but things will shift quickly after that  —  We're just two weeks from the 2010 Rule 4 MLB draft, close enough that the teams selecting in the top half of the first round are narrowing their preference lists to the point …
Discussion: River Avenue Blues
Joe Posnanski:
Lima's Time  —  The image of Jose Lima that will stick with me forever comes from the Kansas City Royals clubhouse in the moments after he had pitched a beautiful baseball game.  Lima had gone nine innings, allowed just five hits and one run to the Detroit Tigers.  He had tipped his cap to the crowd as he exited the field.
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Bailey Stephens / MLB.com:
Baseball peers react to Lima's passing
Discussion: NESN.com
Maury Brown / The Biz of Baseball:
Texas Rangers Voluntarily Go Into Chapter 11 Bankruptcy to Finish Sale to Greenberg/Ryan Group  —  THIS IS BREAKING NEWS...  Texas Rangers Baseball Partners, the current owners of the Texas Rangers Baseball Club, and Rangers Baseball Express, the local investor group led by team president Nolan Ryan …
Alden Gonzalez / MLB.com:
Mauer leads AL in early All-Star voting  —  Longoria holds edge on A-Rod to prevent all-Yankees infield  —  One thing was evident when the first batch of American League voting results for the 81st All-Star Game were made public Monday: Winning yields votes.
Discussion: Halos Heaven and Sliding Into Home
Mark Kiszla / Denver Post:
It's time for Rockies to bench Helton  —  Rather than pick up a piece of lumber from the bat rack, Todd Helton should grab some pine on the bench.  —  Is it baseball blasphemy to suggest the Rockies should sit down the best player in franchise history?  —  At age 36, he's not Beltin' Helton anymore.
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Jim Armstrong / Denver Post:
Tulowitzki, Giambi supply power, punish Royals ace Greinke
Discussion: Purple Row and Yahoo! Sports
Jordan Bastian / MLB.com:
Eveland designated for assignment by Jays  —  PHOENIX — Dana Eveland only knows one thing for certain: He is heading home to Los Angeles to clear his head.  Beyond that, the pitcher can only wait to find out what will happen after the Blue Jays designated him for assignment on Sunday.
Discussion: Bluebird Banter
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Zach Links / MLB Rumors:   Blue Jays Designate Dana Eveland For Assignment
Todd Zolecki / MLB.com:
Phils merely window shopping for pitching  —  Internal reinforcements likely negate need to make moves  —  PHILADELPHIA — It is impossible to know exactly where the Phillies will stand in a couple months, but they know nearly two months into the 2010 season that they are not frantically scrambling …
Discussion: MLB Rumors
Kevin Cowherd / Baltimore Sun:
Like it or not, Trembley could get fired Monday  —  Orioles manager might have seen his last game with team  —  Let's start with this: I've never seen Dave Trembley more frustrated than he was Sunday after the Orioles' 4-3 loss in 10 innings to the Washington Nationals at Nationals Park.
Will Leitch / New York Magazine:
No Miracle Required  —  A surprisingly simple plan for healing the Mets.  —  Suffice to say Jeff Wilpon, chief operating officer of the Mets, will never be confused with George Steinbrenner.  A former major-league hopeful—he briefly appeared at spring training with the Montreal Expos …
Dave Sheinin / Washington Post:
Nationals prospect Stephen Strasburg stays grounded as major league debut nears  —  He's only going to experience this once, and it will all be over in the blink of a radar gun — two whirlwind months out of a lifetime, likely ending in about a week and a half — so Stephen Strasburg is going to embrace the minor league life.
ESPN:
Florida Marlins' steal with 7-0 lead upsets Chicago White Sox  —  CHICAGO — Several members of the Chicago White Sox were upset with the Florida Marlins for stealing a base with a 7-0 lead in the fourth inning of the Marlins' 13-0 victory on Sunday.  —  Plate umpire Adrian Johnson issued warnings …
Discussion: HardballTalk
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