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Joe Strauss / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Trade of Rasmus to Blue Jays near — The Cardinals are on the verge of trading center fielder Colby Rasmus to the Toronto Blue Jays for a multi-player package including starting pitcher Edwin Jackson and relievers Octavio Dotel and Marc Rzepczynski, according to sources familiar with the situation.
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Tim Dierkes / MLB Rumors:
Jays Acquire Jackson; Rasmus Involved? — 10:44am: Money appears to be the only holdup in a trade that would send Jackson to the Cardinals and Rasmus to the Blue Jays, tweets Rosenthal. An exchange of more than $1MM awaits approval, and of course the Cards will get more than just Jackson for Rasmus.
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Matthew Leach / MLB.com:
Cards deal Rasmus, pitchers for Jackson, others — Also send Walters, Miller, Tallet; get Dotel, Rzepczynski, Patterson — ST. LOUIS — The Cardinals have traded center fielder Colby Rasmus to the Blue Jays for pitching help. — St. Louis shipped Rasmus and pitchers P.J. Walters …
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Tim Dierkes / MLB Rumors:
Eight-Player Deal Sending Rasmus To Jays For Jackson Imminent — 12:08pm: The Cardinals will send Rasmus, Trever Miller, Brian Tallet, and P.J. Walters to the Blue Jays for Jackson, Rzepczynski, Dotel, and Corey Patterson, tweets ESPN's Buster Olney. Olney adds that Miller is then expected to be traded to the White Sox.
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The Big Lead, It's About The Money, Baseball Nation, CloserNews and Al's Ramblings
MLB.com:
La Russa: Rasmus doesn't listen to coaches — ST. LOUIS — Continuing an ongoing saga, Cardinals manager Tony La Russa told a St. Louis television station on Tuesday that outfielder Colby Rasmus “doesn't listen” to the team's coaches. It's the latest development in a lengthy series …
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Tim Dierkes / MLB Rumors:
Blue Jays Acquire Jackson, Teahen For Frasor, Stewart
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Jeff Passan / Yahoo! Sports:
MLB needs to wake up and expand replay — Everyone was tired. It was a few minutes before 2 a.m. ET on Wednesday. A rookie catcher named Mike McKenry barely could summon enough oomph to toss the ball back to the mound. Daniel McCutchen(notes), a reliever, was throwing his sixth inning.
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Robneyer / Baseball Nation:
Jerry Meals Might Have Been Right — Yes, the throw beat Julio Lugo and it sure looked like Michael McKenry tagged Lugo. But isn't it possible that umpire Jerry Meals saw something the rest of us didn't? — Call me a sensationalist or an iconoclast if you like, but I just gotta say something this morning ...
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Mark Bowman / MLB.com:
Umpire Meals: Call ‘might have’ been wrong — Pirates, Braves weigh in on controversial ruling in 19th inning — ATLANTA — Veteran umpire Jerry Meals felt he was right with the call he made that ended the 4-3, 19-inning win the Braves claimed over the Pirates at Turner Field on Tuesday night.
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Andy Martino / NY Daily News:
Mets again defeat Reds, 8-6, source says team not backing down from demands for Carlos Beltran — CINCINNATI - Two minutes before 6 o'clock Tuesday night. It is hot, there is organ music, Jason Pridie is taking batting practice and Carlos Beltran and Jeff Wilpon are leaning on the cage, chatting.
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Tim Dierkes / MLB Rumors:
Giants Close To Acquiring Carlos Beltran — 1:30pm: If nothing happens in the next 24 hours to scuttle the deal, it's just Wheeler and cash for Beltran, tweets Sherman. The Mets are sending a significant amount of money, tweets SI's Jon Heyman. — 12:45pm: Olney tweets …
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Jayson Stark / ESPN:
Daily Rumble: Trade Ubaldo Jimenez? — Ubetcha! Rockies are shopping their ace, and at least a half-dozen teams are interested — ESPN.com — A week or so ago, when Ubaldo Jimenez's name first popped out there in the Rumor-verse, it felt like a trial dirigible …
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Fox Sports:
Notes: Fearless Amaro GM to watch — Where have all the wheeler-dealers gone? — The original gunslinger, Diamondbacks general manager Kevin Towers, is looking mostly at middle-inning relievers. Several of the other ultra-aggressive GMs - the White Sox's Ken Williams …
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Full Count and MLB Rumors
CBSSports.com Blogs:
Upton draws interest, gets advice from brother — You bet the rumors swirling around his Tampa Bay batting helmet have gotten B.J. Upton's attention. — “Thanks for all the support on twitter - I appreciate it,” he tweeted from his @BJUPTON2 account Tuesday — presumably as Atlanta …
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MLB Rumors
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Matthew Cerrone / MetsBlog.com:
The Mets shot down trading Jose Reyes for Erick Aybar
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Mets Merized Online
Peter Gammons / MLB.com:
Trade picture will become clear for Rays, others
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MLB Rumors, DRaysBay, Athletics Nation, MLB.com's On the Beat and Mets Fever
Globe and Mail:
Angels' Santana throws no-hitter — Ervin Santana pitched the first no-hitter in the history of Progressive Field as the visiting Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim topped the Cleveland Indians, 3-1, on Wednesday afternoon. — Santana (6-8) struck out 10 and walked one to became the third pitcher …
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Mark Sheldon / MLB.com:
Reds trade Gomes to Nats, promote Alonso — Outfielder, a former first-round Draft pick, called up to Cincinnati — CINCINNATI — It was clear from the moment he was drafted that prospect Yonder Alonso's bat would eventually force the Reds' hand into getting him to the Major Leagues.
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Matthew Leach / MLB.com:
Berkman aggravates right shoulder injury — Cards slugger, NL home run leader to have MRI on Wednesday — ST. LOUIS — Lance Berkman was removed from Tuesday night's 3-1 victory over the Astros when his sore right shoulder acted up again, and it may have been a precursor to Berkman missing a few more days.
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HardballTalk
T.R. Sullivan / Postcards From Elysian Fields:
Trade Deadline/Feliz — The Rangers are trying to engage clubs in trade talks for a setup reliever. Most clubs that have relief pitching to trade appear to be holding back until the last minute before pulling the trigger. — Why? — 1. They are asking too much.
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