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Gordon Wittenmyer / Chicago Sun Times:
Mike Maddux, Dale Sveum take center stage in Cubs' search — Texas Rangers pitching coach Mike Maddux is a candidate for the Cubs' managerial job. Leon Halip~Getty Images — It took more than three months for the Cubs to get their new front office team in place.
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Paul Hoynes / Plain Dealer:
Cleveland Indians grant Boston permission to interview Sandy Alomar Jr. for manager's job — CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Red Sox have received permission to interview Indians bench coach Sandy Alomar Jr. to be their manager. — Boston has undergone changes in the dugout and front office following …
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Yahoo! Sports and SI Tracking Blog
Jon Heyman / Sports Illustrated:
Cubs, Red Sox want to talk to Maddux — The Cubs and Red Sox have both asked for permission to interview Rangers pitching coach Mike Maddux for their managerial jobs. — Maddux is widely credited for helping convert C.J. Wilson and Alexei Ogando from relievers into very good starting pitchers …
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baseballmusings.com and Associated Press
Peter Abraham / Boston Globe:
Dale Sveum discusses interview with Red Sox — and other notes from Fenway
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joy of sox, Yahoo! Sports, MLB.com and VFTB
Paul Sullivan / Chicago Tribune:
Quade out as Cubs manager; Ryno not a candidate
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Deadspin
Associated Press:
Matty Alou, once part of an all-Alou outfield for the San Francisco Giants with brothers Felipe and Jesus, died Thursday in his native Dominican Republic. He was 72. — He died of diabetes complications, according to his former Dominican team, Leones del Escogido.
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Atabey / DominicanToday.com:
Baseball great Matty Alou dies in Miami — Santo Domingo.- One of the most inconic Major League Baseball greats from the Dominican Republic, Mateo Rojas Alou (Matty Alou) died early Thursday in Miami of unspecified ailment. — Alou, one of the famous brothers Jesus and Felipe …
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Yahoo! Sports, HardballTalk and Baseball Nation
Duk / Yahoo! Sports:
Dominican baseball legend Matty Alou dies at age 72 — There's great sadness in the house of one of baseball's greatest families as Dominican Today reports that Matty Alou has passed away at age 72 from an undisclosed ailment. — That's Mateo Rojas Alou in the middle of the above picture …
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Los Angeles Times:
Peter O'Malley joins list of potential bidders for Dodgers — The former owner of the team says he will work on forming a group to take part in an auction for the team, Dodger Stadium and property surrounding the ballpark. — Former Dodgers owner Peter O'Malley sold the team to Fox in 1998.
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Dodgers Blog
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Ben Nicholson-Smith / MLB Rumors:
Dodgers To Sign Juan Rivera
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Baseball Nation, Mike Scioscia's tragic illness and Bucs Dugout
Ramona Shelburne / ESPN:
Steve Garvey prepping proposal to purchase Los Angeles Dodgers
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HardballTalk, MLB Daily Dish, Yahoo! Sports and BBTF's Baseball Primer …
Bill Shaikin / Los Angeles Times:
Peter O'Malley wants to run Dodgers
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Dodgers Blog, ESPN and Mike Scioscia's tragic illness
Joe Strauss / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Cardinals start manager interviews Thursday — A search committee headed by Cardinals chairman Bill DeWitt Jr. and general manager John Mozeliak today begins what it hopes is a 10-day process to identify the successor to departing manager Tony La Russa. — The committee today holds …
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Duk / Yahoo! Sports:
Would Pujols really agree to a statue if he were leaving St. Louis? — Should Albert Pujols(notes) bolt town through free agency this hot stove season, at least St. Louis Cardinals fans will have an awkward memento to remember him by. — A 1o-foot, 1,100-pound statue of the two-time World Series winner …
Susan Slusser / San Francisco Chronicle:
None of 5 free agents gets offer — Wednesday came and went without the A's making an offer to any of their own free agents, and now all five can begin talking to other teams. — Outfielder Josh Willingham is the most high-profile of Oakland's free agents, and his agent, Matt Sosnick …
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MetsBlog.com, McCovey Chronicles, HardballTalk, Athletics Nation and MLB Rumors
Mark Bowman / Bowman's Blog:
Braves willing to trade Jurrjens and Prado — The Braves gained some financial flexibility by trading Derek Lowe to the Indians earlier this week. They are now exploring the possibility of gaining more flexibility while talking to clubs interested in trading for Jair Jurrjens and/or Martin Prado.
Discussion:
MLB Rumors and HardballTalk
Dan Rafael / ESPN:
Floyd Mayweather Jr. eyes May 5 fight — Floyd Mayweather Jr. does not plan on taking another 16-month vacation from the boxing ring, like he did after easily outpointing Shane Mosley in May 2010. — Instead, Mayweather, who knocked out Victor Ortiz on Sept. 17, will make a relatively hasty return …
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SI Tracking Blog and NESN.com
Associated Press:
Cano lifts MLB stars 5-3 over Taiwan team — TAIPEI, Taiwan—Robinson Cano doubled in a run in the seventh inning to help an MLB All-Star team beat Taiwan's national team 5-3 Thursday in the second game of a five-game series. — The New York Yankees' second baseman also singled and scored in the sixth inning in the game in Taichung.
