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Bill Shaikin / Los Angeles Times:
Bud Selig rejects Dodgers TV contract, nullifying McCourt divorce deal — The settlement between Frank and Jamie McCourt announced Friday was contingent on Commissioner Bud Selig's approval of a new Dodgers TV contract. A provision in that proposed contract that would have funneled $173.5 million …
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Charlie Morton / Yahoo! Sports:
MLB rejects Dodgers' television deal with Fox — So arrive what would appear to be the final days of Frank McCourt's ownership of the Los Angeles Dodgers. — Commissioner Bud Selig has rejected McCourt's stab at solvency in the form of a television rights deal, finding that the financing …
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Frank McCourt Must Go (UPDATED) — UPDATE: Major League Baseball has announced that it has rejected the proposed TV deal between the Dodgers and Fox. The reasons given by MLB include many of those stated below: the deal is not in the best interests of baseball, it diverts too much money away …
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Tom D'Angelo / Fish Tank:
Jack McKeon's first move in his return as Marlins manager: Bench late arriving Hanley Ramirez — Jack McKeon's first move in his second go-around as the Marlins manager was to bench Hanley Ramirez. — Ramirez, the three-time All-Star arrived late to the clubhouse Monday …
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Jon Heyman / Sports Illustrated:
McKeon takes Marlins job — Jack McKeon has accepted the job to become interim manager of the Florida Marlins. — McKeon, 80, replaces Edwin Rodriguez, who resigned on Sunday. Florida has won just one game this month and has fallen into last place in the NL East.
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Espn.Com / MLB:
Sources: Marlins to hire Jack McKeon
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Derrick Goold / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Pujols has broken bone, out 4-6 weeks — ST. LOUIS • Cardinals first baseman and three-time MVP Albert Pujols will miss four to six weeks with a small fracture that was found near his left wrist, the team announced Monday. — Pujols had an MRI and followup X-Rays this morning with the Cardinals' team physicians.
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Matthew Leach / MLB.com:
Pujols will undergo testing after spraining wrist
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Wallace Matthews / ESPN:
Yanks' Girardi: A-Rod has ‘small’ shoulder issue — CHICAGO — New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez has been battling a left shoulder injury of unknown severity for the past couple of weeks, an injury that may be the reason for his lower-than-average power production.
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Swisher Leads Yankees Past Cubs 10-4
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Nick Cafardo / Boston Globe:
Gonzalez may play OF in interleague — Terry Francona acknowledged that the organization has discussed the possibility of Adrian Gonzalez playing rightfield on the nine-game interleague road trip which starts Friday in Pittsburgh. — And Gonzalez said he would be up for it if the Red Sox needed …
Sports Illustrated:
Mets' Reyes and Beltran top list of hitters on early trade market … The biggest everyday star with a chance to hit the trade market this summer remains the Mets' great shortstop Jose Reyes — although, a Reyes being dealt is far less than a certainty now. As one competing National League …
Espn.Com / MLB:
Sources: Chris Coghlan put on DL — An injury might be to blame for Florida Marlins outfielder Chris Coghlan's struggles this season. — The team announced Friday they had demoted Coghlan to Triple-A New Orleans. But in the aftermath of that decision, Coghlan told the Marlins …
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Kevin Goldstein / Baseball Prospectus:
Monday Morning Ten Pack — Parker Bridwell, RHP, Orioles (Short-season Aberdeen) — The start of short-season play means plenty of new names showing up in box scores, and not just this year's draftees. After signing for a well over-slot bonus of $625,000 last year as a ninth-round pick …
Robneyer / Baseball Nation:
MLB Weekend Update: American League Romping (Again) — First, a few of the weekend's scores: 3-2, 8-5 and — in a key game — 13-6. — Next, some of the baseball stories you might have missed if you spent your entire weekend in northeastern Oregon chasing birds ... It happens every spring and summer ...
