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Nancy Dillon / NY Daily News:
Former NY Mets outfielder Lenny Dykstra holds first sit-down interview since plea in grand theft auto case — Jail, rehab humble Dykstra — Former Mets Lenny Dykstra says he now looks at world from a cleaner, clearer perspective. — LOS ANGELES — The former Met known as “Nails” …
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Peter Abraham / Boston Globe:
No new manager until next week — Here's what we know in terms of finding a new manager: — Nothing will be settled today according to team sources and the earliest an announcement will be made is next week. Gene Lamont did indeed meet with ownership earlier this week, so he joins Bobby Valentine in that regard.
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Scouts even more crucial with new CBA — Baseball has a new collective-bargaining agreement. This is good news. Play ball. — And yet the reaction in some corners of the industry sounds a little like the booing and hissing that followed the collapse of the Congressional deficit super committee.
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MLB Rumors and Al's Ramblings
Jeff Jacobs / Hartford Courant:
Bobby Valentine Will Be Fun With Red Sox, But It Won't End Well — This started Nov. 3 at the Hartford Club. And make no mistake, it would end spectacularly. This started with an arranged meeting before a World Affairs Council event on Prospect Street. And the prospect of it ending …
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Matthew Leach / MLB.com:
Pujols will likely decline Cards' arbitration offer — Should All-Star sign elsewhere, St. Louis gets two Draft picks — ST. LOUIS — The Cardinals formally offered arbitration to Albert Pujols on Wednesday, ensuring that if the superstar is playing for another club in 2012, they'll get some recompense.
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Derrick Goold / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Pujols sticking with Lozano as his agent — Free agent first baseman Albert Pujols told The Post-Dispatch late Wednesday night that Dan Lozano will remain his agent and that he will not change representation in response to an online report that used unnamed sources to allege his agent was involved in sordid activities.
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HardballTalk and MLB Rumors
Maury Brown / The Biz of Baseball:
Transcript of Press Conference with Bud Selig, Michael Weiner Announcing MLB Labor Deal — When MLB's labor deal was announced on Tuesday, it sets in motion a host of changes that will drastically alter how the game functions, both on and off the field. — The following is a transcript …
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Maury Brown / The Biz of Baseball:
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of MLB's New Labor Agreement — (L-R) Rob Manfred, Bud Selig, and Michael Weiner will have 21-years of labor peace at — the end of the new labor agreement, but is this new deal really good or bad for the game? — Labor negotiations are like a marriage …
Jon Heyman / Sports Illustrated:
Yankees, Garcia reach deal — Freddy Garcia has reached agreement with the Yankees on a one-year deal worth about $4 million, plus incentives. — Garcia went 12-8 with a 3.62 ERA for the Yankees in 2011 after signing a one-year, $1.5 million deal in the offseason.
Dan Connolly / Orioles Insider:
Klentak talks about leaving the Orioles — Matt Klentak, who spent the last four years as the Orioles' director of baseball operations, said today that leaving the club to become an assistant general manager with the Los Angeles Angels was just too good of a career move to ignore.
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MLB Rumors
Paul Sullivan / Chicago Tribune:
Could some of the Cubs' culture bite the dust? — In a year of change, perhaps Cubbies, ‘Go, Cubs, Go’ will go bye-bye — Cubs president of baseball operations Theo Epstein during a news conference to announce the hiring of manager Dale Sveum on Nov. 18. (US Presswire Photo)
Bob Brookover / Boston Herald:
Phillies' Madson and Rollins offered arbitration — The Phillies mixed in a surprise when they revealed their salary-arbitration offers Wednesday. — As expected, shortstop Jimmy Rollins and closer Ryan Madson were offered arbitration, and reliever Brad Lidge and starter Roy Oswalt were not.
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