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Fox Sports:
Beltran sweepstakes nearing a close — FOX Sports — The Giants have reached a tentative agreement to acquire outfielder Carlos Beltran from the New York Mets, major-league sources told FOXSports.com on Wednesday. — Pending approval from Beltran and the commissioner's office …
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Andrew Keh / New York Times:
Beltran All but Gone to the Giants — CINCINNATI — Carlos Beltran's jersey was still on view Wednesday afternoon in the same corner stall where it had been all week at Great American Ballpark, a lingering reminder of what was and no longer is. — Beltran, himself, was not around the Mets' clubhouse.
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Baseball Prospectus, Red Reporter and Faith and Fear in Flushing
Ben Nicholson-Smith / MLB Rumors:
Giants Do Not Plan To Release Pat Burrell — 11:00pm: The Giants are not releasing Burrell, according to Henry Schulman of the San Francisco Chronicle (on Twitter). — 9:37pm: The Giants are expected to release Pat Burrell to create roster space for Carlos Beltran, according to CSNBayArea.com.
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CSNCalifornia.com and New York Mets Fan Blog
ESPN:
Carlos Beltran OKs trade to Giants
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MetsBlog.com, Mets Merized Online and Associated Press
Associated Press:
Research Notes … CINCINNATI — The Mets said goodbye …
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NY Daily News, ESPN and Faith and Fear in Flushing
Matthew Cerrone / MetsBlog.com:
Carlos Beltran to the Giants is awaiting approval
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Tedquarters, Sports Illustrated, Baseball Nation, HardballTalk and SNY - Sportsnetny
Tim Dierkes / MLB Rumors:
Giants To Acquire Carlos Beltran
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Phillies Nation and Full Count
Tim Dierkes / MLB Rumors:
Giants To Acquire Carlos Beltran
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New York Mets Fan Blog, Boston Globe, MetsMinorLeagueBlog.com, DRaysBay, McCovey Chronicles and MLB Daily Dish
Associated Press:
Astros Beat Cardinals 4-2 to End 5-Game Skid — ST. LOUIS (AP) — Rookie Jose Altuve drove in the go-ahead run in the ninth inning with his third hit and the Houston Astros snapped a five-game losing streak with a 4-2 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Wednesday night.
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Associated Press and The Crawfish Boxes
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Associated Press:
Danks strikes out 10 as White Sox top Tigers
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South Side Sox, Bless You Boys, TSN.ca and Canadian Press
Bob Nightengale / USA Today:
Deals done: Rasmus to Toronto, Jackson to St. Louis, Frasor to Chicago
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Baseball Prospectus and Plain Dealer
ESPN:
White Sox deal Jackson, Teahen to Blue Jays
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Associated Press, Bless You Boys and MLB
Vince Caramela / Hardball Times:
Trade season is finally heating up
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FanGraphs Baseball, Baseball America and MetsMinorLeagueBlog.com
Tim Dierkes / MLB Rumors:
Jays Acquire Jackson; Rasmus Involved?
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HardballTalk, New York Post, The Big Lead, River Avenue Blues, Bluebird Banter, Yahoo! Sports and Rays Index
Tim Dierkes / MLB Rumors:
Blue Jays Acquire Jackson, Teahen For Frasor, Stewart
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DRaysBay, Viva El Birdos, Baseball Nation, Full Count, The Big Lead and CloserNews
Jfay / Cincinnati Reds:
Baker: Heisey will get most of time in LF — Some pregame notes: — Chris Heisey started in left field Wednesday. That sounds like Dusty Baker's plan going forward. — “Probably most of the time is going to go to Heisey,” Baker said. — The Reds brought Yonder Alonso in the wake …
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Minor League Ball and All Things Bubba
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Canadian Press:
Romero makes Bautista's early RBI stand as Jays defeat Orioles
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Bluebird Banter and TSN.ca
Tim Dierkes / MLB Rumors:
Eight-Player Deal Sending Rasmus To Jays For Jackson Imminent
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Hardball Times, The Big Lead, It's About The Money, HardballTalk, MLB Daily Dish, Baseball Nation and Al's Ramblings
Jason Mastrodonato / MLB.com:
Homer extends Pedroia's hitting streak to 24 — BOSTON — Dustin Pedroia wasted no time extending his hitting streak to a career-high 24 games Wednesday night against the Royals. — After fouling off a pair of offspeed pitches in his first at-bat against Kansas City starter Bruce Chen …
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Surviving Grady, Over the Monster and Yahoo! Sports
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Scott Lauber / Boston Herald:
Red Sox bats take care of Royals — Like a runaway train, or partisan bickering in Washington, the Red Sox [team stats]' bats just don't stop. — For the third time in four games and the seventh time this month, they produced a double-digit run total last night at Fenway Park [map] — and that was before the fifth inning.
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Rich Thompson / Boston Herald:
David Ortiz keeps up the power — Big Papi's slam earns his 1,000th RBI as Red Sox — David Ortiz found inspiration watching Jacoby Ellsbury [stats] and Dustin Pedroia [stats] open the Red Sox [team stats] half of the first inning with back-to-back solo home runs.
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Boston Globe and Associated Press
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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HardballTalk, Full Count, Redleg Nation and MLB Rumors
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Fox Sports:
Angels' Santana no-hits the Indians — FOX Sports Ohio — CLEVELAND — It took a little more than six years, but Angels pitcher Ervin Santana finally got his revenge on the Indians. — And what revenge it was, as Santana threw the first no-hitter in Progressive Field history …
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HardballTalk, FanGraphs Baseball and Rangers Blog
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Jay Paris / North County Times:
Burroughs is back, but not his old habits — SAN DIEGO — Micah Owings heard what his Diamondbacks teammate Sean Burroughs stated. — He just couldn't believe it. — “You were running from light poles?” Owings said. — “No,” Burroughs said, quickly correcting Owings. “I was talking to them.”
National Post:
Father Raymond J. de Souza: Honouring Roger Maris, baseball's moral champion — Sunday was Blue Jays day at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., with former general manager Pat Gillick and second baseman Roberto Alomar inducted. The first Blue Jays to make it to the Hall …
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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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Sports Illustrated, SportsGrid, USA Today, Joe Posnanski, HardballTalk, Bowman's Blog and Bucs Dugout
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Jeff Passan / Yahoo! Sports:
MLB needs to wake up and expand replay
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Bucs Dugout, Surviving Grady, Associated Press and Baseball Time in Arlington
Mark Bowman / MLB.com:
Umpire Meals: Call ‘might have’ been wrong
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Jeff Schultz, joy of sox, HardballTalk, Bats, Baseball Prospectus, Halos Heaven, Brew Crew Ball and Baseball Nation
Kieran Darcy / ESPN:
Yankees HOPE Week makes big splash — It was water balloons and baseball memories for a crew of kids affected by 9/11 … NEW YORK — Most of the 46,132 people at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday will remember it as the day CC Sabathia struck out 14 Mariners and flirted with perfection.
Associated Press:
Upton homers twice, Nady once as Diamondbacks beat Padres — SAN DIEGO — Justin Upton homered twice and Xavier Nady added a two-run shot, leading the Arizona Diamondbacks to a 4-3 win over the San Diego Padres on Wednesday night. — Ian Kennedy (12-3) won his fourth straight start …
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Yahoo! Sports and Associated Press
Associated Press:
A's Pound Shields, Rays — OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Hideki Matsui and Ryan Sweeney both homered as part of a nine-run fourth inning and the suddenly resurgent Oakland Athletics beat the Tampa Bay Rays 13-4 on Wednesday night. — Matsui was 3 for 5 with five RBIs, Jemile Weeks had three hits …
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DRaysBay and Associated Press
Associated Press:
Cook blanks Dodgers through seven as Rockies beat Dodgers — LOS ANGELES — Aaron Cook outpitched Hiroki Kuroda with seven scoreless innings, Troy Tulowitzki had a pair of RBI singles among his three hits, and the Colorado Rockies beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 3-1 on Wednesday night to avoid a three-game sweep.
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Associated Press and True Blue LA
