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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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Jonathan Mayo / MLB.com:
Analysis: CBA makes several changes to Draft — There are few, if any, who would look at the systems for the First-Year Player Draft and international signings and conclude they weren't broken. With Tuesday's announcement of a new Collective Bargaining Agreement, Major League Baseball …
Jayson Stark / MLB:
Stark: Baseball's new labor deal truly a historic one
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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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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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Barbara Barker / Newsday:
Mariano Rivera may need surgery on vocal cords
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New Jersey Online
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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Jeff Passan / Yahoo! Sports:
Landmark CBA's draft dollars cause consternation — The grumbling from front offices trickled out upon word last week that Major League Baseball and the players' union had agreed on a new collective-bargaining agreement. Details were scant. They just knew they didn't like it.
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THE BOOK and South Side Sox
Rob Neyer / Baseball Nation:
The Zen Master And Amateur Baseball Players
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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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Ben Nicholson-Smith / MLB Rumors:
Royals To Sign Bruce Chen — Piece by piece, the Royals' rotation is taking shape. They have agreed to sign Bruce Chen to a two-year deal worth $9MM. The deal also includes a $1MM roster bonus and up to $1MM in incentives. — Before agreeing to terms with Chen, Royals GM Dayton Moore told Bob Dutton …
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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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Ben Nicholson-Smith / MLB Rumors:
Highlights From The New CBA — The effects of Major League Baseball's …
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Motor City Bengals and Deadspin
Dejan Kovacevic / PittsburghLIVE.com:
Baseball sticks it to Pirates — There was an awful lot of backslapping going on Tuesday at Major League Baseball's news conference in Manhattan over a new five-year collective bargaining agreement. I'll have to presume Yankee Stadium was booked. — Twenty-one years of labor peace, the suits crowed.
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.
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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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David Brown / Yahoo! Sports:
Answer Man: Pete Rose talks Vegas, Sparky, Kool-Aid Man and exile — Can it really be 25 years since Pete Rose retired as a Major League Baseball player? The man called “Charlie Hustle” collected 4,256 career base hits for the Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies and Montreal Expos, more than any other player in history.
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Carroll Rogers / Atlanta Braves:
Braves decline to offer 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 …
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HardballTalk and Talking Chop
