Top News:
Paul White / USA Today:
What's new in baseball's new labor deal? — The negotiating path to baseball's new labor deal might have been the smoothest ever between the once-contentious sides. But it's full of significant changes for fans. — Realignment, expanded playoffs, more replay, testing …
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Surviving Grady and Pinstripe Alley
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Jim Callis / Baseball America:
Draft Cap May Not Be So Harsh — When Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association announced a new five-year Collective Bargaining Agreement today, including several changes to the draft, reaction from club executives and player agents was as swift as a Justin Verlander fastball.
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Bluebird Banter and redsminorleagues.com
Rob Neyer / Baseball Nation:
The Zen Master And Amateur Baseball Players
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Washington Post, It's About The Money, Kings of Kauffman and baseballmusings.com
Baseball America:
New Labor Deal Features Major Draft Changes
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Scranton/Wilkes-Barre …, Bless You Boys, Yahoo! Sports and Steve Melewski
Dave Cameron / FanGraphs Baseball:
Did a Steinbrenner Write the New CBA?
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MLB, Camden Chat, Baseball Time in Arlington, Associated Press, Mets Merized Online, DRaysBay and SoxProspects News
Ben Nicholson-Smith / MLB Rumors:
Highlights From The New CBA — The effects of Major League Baseball's …
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Motor City Bengals
Ben Nicholson-Smith / MLB Rumors:
CBA Details: Luxury Tax, Draft, HGH, Replay
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ESPN, MetsBlog.com, HardballTalk, Bronx Baseball Daily, Deadspin and Bucs Dugout
Craig Calcaterra / HardballTalk:
Let's not call the new collective bargaining agreement a success just yet
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Mets Merized Online and Al's Ramblings
Peter Abraham / Boston Globe:
A few details from the new CBA
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Gaslamp Ball and Bluebird Banter
George A. King III / New York Post:
Yankees' Rivera hints 2012 could be final season — Mariano Rivera, while he waits to find out if he needs a surgical procedure done on his vocal cords, speculated on Tuesday that 2012 could be the final year of his career. — “I don't know what will happen,” said the Yankees closer …
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Bronx Baseball Daily, HardballTalk, Full Count and Deadspin
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Anthony McCarron / NY Daily News:
Mariano Rivera says he might need vocal cord surgery, giving Yankees offseason jolt — Yankees closer having trouble with voice — Brian Perez, 9, chats up Mariano Rivera, who hosts Thanksgiving meal in New Rochelle. — The Yankees' quiet offseason got what they hope is only a minor jolt Tuesday …
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Bombers Beat
Barbara Barker / Newsday:
Mariano Rivera may need surgery on vocal cords — NEW ROCHELLE — Mariano Rivera may have the right arm of a 30-year-old. His vocal cords, however, are another story. — A raspy-voiced Rivera revealed Tuesday at a charity event at his restaurant here that he might need surgery to repair his vocal cords.
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New Jersey Online
Peter Abraham / Boston Globe:
Deadline arrives on arbitration offer for Ortiz — There is some baseball business to handle on Thanksgiving eve. Teams have until 11 p.m. (EST) to offer their free agents arbitration. — David Ortiz joins Albert Pujols, Prince Fielder, C.J. Wilson, Roy Oswalt, Jose Reyes and Jimmy Rollins …
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MLB Rumors, Bless You Boys and FenwayNation
Dan Hayes / North County Times:
PADRES: Team acquires catcher Baker for LeBlanc — The Padres have strengthened their catching situation with the acquisition of John Baker from the Miami Marlins on Tuesday in exchange for pitcher Wade LeBlanc. — Baker is two-plus years removed from reconstructive elbow surgery …
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Mike Axisa / MLB Rumors:
Marlins, Padres Swap John Baker For Wade LeBlanc
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Fish Stripes and Yahoo! Sports
Globe and Mail:
Sizemore reaches one-year deal with Indians — Grady Sizemore's trip into free agency didn't take him far. — The Cleveland Indians have agreed to terms with the former all-star outfielder on a one-year, incentive-based contract. It's a deal that could work for both sides if he can stay healthy and on the field.
Discussion:
baseballmusings.com
Carroll Rogers / Atlanta Braves:
Braves don't offer SS Gonzalez arbitration — The Braves did not offer salary arbitration to free agent shortstop Alex Gonzalez on Wednesday's deadline, choosing not to risk him accepting and commanding more than $3 million in arbitration. — The Braves forfeited a chance at gaining …
Discussion:
HardballTalk and Talking Chop
Bill Plaschke / Los Angeles Times:
Writers strike out not choosing Matt Kemp as MVP — Dodgers outfielder should have been the National League winner instead of Milwaukee's Ryan Braun, whom voters apparently favored because the Brewers won the Central Division. — He didn't play for a division champion …
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Bob Nightengale / USA Today:
Scott Boras says new draft rules will ‘hurt all of baseball’ — Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig and players association head Michael Weiner struck congratulatory and conciliatory tones at a Tuesday news conference announcing a new collective bargaining agreement.
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6-4-2 and NoMaas.org
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Sports Illustrated:
New CBA extends period of peace but isn't without drawbacks
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baseballmusings.com
Barry M. Bloom / MLB.com:
MLB, union announce five-year labor deal
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Hardball Times, Minor League Ball and Batter's Box Interactive …
Max Marchi / Hardball Times:
The 2011 Yogi Berra Award — Awards are presented in November, and for the third time, The Hardball Times is going to name the Yogi Berra Award winner. — The great Yankee catcher used to swing at everything, and when asked about his habit of swinging at bad pitches …
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Halos Heaven
Fox Sports:
MLB deal a dagger to small-market teams — The deal got done, and that fact overrides every other. As the NBA will learn, labor peace alone carries great value, helps a sport achieve continued growth. — Unfortunately for baseball, low-revenue teams got trampled in its new collective …
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The Captain's Blog and Baseball Time in Arlington
