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Adam Dunn / ESPN:
Check out Trade Deadline Live! for the most up-to-date information — OK, now that we've gotten that pesky Roy Oswalt trade out of the way, let's turn our attention to the three biggest rings left in the Trade Deadline Circus: — As far back as Monday, Rumblings was suggesting …
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Luke Adams / MLB Rumors:
White Sox Acquire Edwin Jackson — 12:01pm: The D'Backs announced they've traded Jackson to the White Sox for Hudson and pitching prospect David Holmberg. — 11:54am: Jackson has been told he's been traded to the White Sox, tweets Yahoo's Tim Brown. — 9:46am: Sox GM Kenny Williams …
Fox Sports:
White Sox get Jackson; Dunn next? — Fox Sports — White Sox general manager Kenny Williams has the starting pitcher he wanted: right-hander Edwin Jackson, acquired in a three-player trade with Arizona. — And now Williams is trying to get one of the biggest available bats: Adam Dunn of the Washington Nationals.
Ben Nicholson-Smith / MLB Rumors:
Blue Jays May Keep Downs; Asking Price Still High
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Bluebird Banter
New York Post:
How Phillies landed another ace — Executives keep com plaining to me about this being the July 31 that put the “dead” in deadline. But for all the complaints of high prices and dormancy, Roy Oswalt became the third high-level starter (joining Cliff Lee and Dan Haren) moved this month.
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Nick Piecoro / Arizona Republic:
Arizona Diamondbacks drop Joe Saunders' debut in 11 innings to Philadelphia Phillies — PHILADELPHIA - It was either nerves or adrenaline, or some combination of both, that Diamondbacks left-hander Joe Saunders felt in the first inning Thursday night, the emotions representative of his desire …
Ben Nicholson-Smith / MLB Rumors:
Yankees Acquire Lance Berkman — 6:04pm: The Astros are picking up a lot of the money owed to Berkman and won't obtain top prospects in return, according to ESPN.com's Buster Olney. The Yankees expect to make one or two more moves and continue working on trades (all Twitter links).
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Bronx Baseball Daily, Pinstripe Alley, Mike Silva's …, NESN.com, HardballTalk and Sliding Into Home
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D.J. Short / HardballTalk:
REPORT: Yankees acquire Lance Berkman from Astros — It's official. According to Joel Sherman of the New York Post, Lance Berkman has consented to waive his no-trade rights and will head to the Yankees. We'll still have to wait 24 hours due to his 10-5 rights, but this thing is done.
Richard Durrett / ESPN:
Texas Rangers trade for Washington Nationals' Cristian Guzman — The Texas Rangers continued to shore up their roster, trading for Washington Nationals middle infielder Cristian Guzman. — “It's not an official trade until the paperwork goes through. In 24 hours, it'll be official,” …
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Bill Ladson / All Nats All the Time:
Guzman traded to the Rangers for prospects
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MLB Rumors, FanGraphs Baseball, Federal Baseball, SBNation.com, MLB Daily Dish, Foul Territory and FJB
Adam Kilgore / Nationals Journal:
Nationals trade Cristian Guzman to Rangers
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The Nats Blog
Aaron Gleeman / HardballTalk:
Twins overvalued the save stat and overpaid for Matt Capps — Matt Capps was available for nothing this offseason. — Non-tendered by the Pirates in December following a career-worst season that saw him post a 5.80 ERA and .324 opponents' batting average while serving up 10 homers in 54.1 innings …
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Ben Nicholson-Smith / MLB Rumors:
Twins Acquire Matt Capps For Wilson Ramos
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baseballmusings.com, Josh's Thoughts, Yahoo! Sports, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Baseball America, AaronGleeman.com, Twinkie Town, The Goessling Game, CBSSports.com Sports News …, Drunk Jays Fans, The Nats Blog, Federal Baseball, Where Have You Gone …, Boston Globe, MLB Daily Dish and Al's Ramblings
Adam McCalvy / MLB.com:
Brewers write plan for better pitching success — Club identifies ways to evaluate, develop, acquire starters — MILWAUKEE — Right off the top, Doug Melvin admits that the Brewers have made mistakes drafting, signing and otherwise acquiring pitchers during his nearly seven years as general manager.
Dallas Morning News:
Rangers' bankruptcy case: Deal made, Mark Cuban's camp upset, auction could be off — William K. Snyder, the chief restructuring officer appointed by the court to try to work things out among the parties in the Rangers' bankruptcy case, has negotiated a “substantially enhanced” …
Mark Simon / ESPN:
Doc and Straw: The untold stories — What was it like to face Dwight Gooden and Darryl Strawberry? Pull up a chair. — ESPNNewYork.com — There are all sorts of stories to tell, plenty good and plenty bad, about the careers of New York Mets Hall of Fame inductees Dwight Gooden and Darryl Strawberry.
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Faith and Fear in Flushing
Rob Bradford / Full Count:
Damon: Sox would have won one more if stayed — Talking prior to the Tigers series opening game against the Red Sox at Fenway Park Friday night, Johnny Damon said that if he would have remained a member of the Sox following the 2005 season the team might have won more than just the 2007 world championship.
Geoff Baker / The Seattle Times:
Want to fix the Mariners? Time to take a page from Bill James and start thinking “outside the box” again — Reading through some stuff from last night's comments threads, I saw a few things that need addressing. One person wrote that GM Jack Zduriencik had to have known the Mariners …
