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Sean McAdam / Comcast SportsNet:
Buchholz has stress fracture, likely out for year — To view this site, you need to have Flash Player 9.0.115 or later installed. Click here to get the latest Flash player. … CHICAGO — With the benefit of hindsight, it's easy to now understand why the Red Sox spent so much time and energy …
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Ben Nicholson-Smith / MLB Rumors:
Epstein On Bedard, Harden, Fields, Buchholz
Epstein On Bedard, Harden, Fields, Buchholz
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John Nalbone / New Jersey Online:
Trenton Thunder ace Manny Banuelos is on the move ... to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre — TRENTON - After weeks of speculation leading up to today's 4 p.m. non-waiver trade deadline, Thunder ace left-hander Manny Banuelos is on the move. — To Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
Fox Sports:
Yankees cast lot with their prospects — All I know is, Manny Banuelos, Dellin Betances and Co. had better be good. — New York Yankees general manager Brian Cashman, for the second straight season, refused to trade prospects for a starting pitcher who could provide more immediate help.
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Associated Press:
Alcohol, drugs factored in fan's fatal fall — DENVER — A 27-year-old man who died when he fell from a stairway during a Colorado Rockies game had marijuana and alcohol in his system at the time. — An autopsy report released Monday says the amount of alcohol in Robert Seamans' system was twice the legal limit for driving.
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Jeff Passan / Yahoo! Sports:
Winners, losers and tweeners from trade deadline — At 10 Degrees Headquarters, we've been having a bit of an identity crisis lately. First we drop 25 Degrees coming out of the All-Star break, and today we're going with 30, one for every team in baseball. Next thing you know, it's going to be 180 - totally backward.
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Jerry Crasnick / MLB:
Hisashi Iwakuma hires new agent — Hisashi Iwakuma, one of the top starting pitchers in Japan, has hired a new agent as a prelude to coming to Major League Baseball as a free agent in 2012. — Iwakuma, a star right-hander for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles, is expected to rank among …
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Tim Dierkes / MLB Rumors:
August Trade Candidates — Last August, players such as Jim Edmonds, Mike Fontenot, Derrek Lee, Brian Fuentes, Manny Delcarmen, and Jeff Francoeur were traded, while Cody Ross, Rod Barajas, and Manny Ramirez were claimed off waivers. The previous year Carl Pavano, Aubrey Huff, Ivan Rodriguez …
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Associated Press:
A's Owner Lew Wolff Calls for Sale of Dodgers — OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Oakland Athletics owner Lew Wolff is hopeful that Frank McCourt will soon sell the financially troubled Los Angeles Dodgers so baseball can move forward from the sticky situation. — Wolff, a successful retail developer based …
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David Waldstein / New York Times:
Behind the Scenes of a Trade That Sent a Met to Milwaukee — WASHINGTON — In the weeks before he was traded to the Milwaukee Brewers, Francisco Rodriguez told the Mets that he wanted to eliminate the now-defunct $17.5 million vesting option in his contract.
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Lyle Spencer / MLB.com:
Angels' Weaver ejected for buzzing Avila — Ace righty tossed for purpose pitch after Guillen admires homer — DETROIT — With the Tigers' Justin Verlander working on a no-hitter through seven innings — which would be broken up two outs later by Maicer Izturis — bad blood boiled …
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