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Ryan Braun tests positive for PED — National League MVP Ryan Braun, who last season led the Milwaukee Brewers to their first division title in nearly three decades, has tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug and faces a 50-game suspension if the initial finding is upheld …
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I'm positive: MLB will never be clean — Here we go again. — A bombshell revelation about a major leaguer testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs. The player disputing the result through arbitration. A spokesperson for the player saying, “There was absolutely no intentional violation of the (drug-testing) program.”
Mike Axisa / MLB Rumors:
Ryan Braun Tested Positive For PEDs — Reigning NL MVP Ryan Braun has tested positive for a performance-enchancing drug, reports Mark Fainaru-Wada and T.J. Quinn of ESPN. YokalSports.com was the first to report the news (on Twitter). Braun is facing a 50-game suspension and is disputing the positive test through arbitration.
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Michael Hunt / Boston Herald:
Ryan Braun's test would be severe blow to Milwaukee area and baseball, if it's true — MILWAUKEE — I'm not sure what it was like around here when Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was traded years ago, but at least there were early distant warning signs that howitzer blast of a news item would occur.
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Joe Strauss / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Pujols: ‘It was about the commitment.’ … ANAHEIM, Calif. • Shortly before noon local time Saturday, Albert Pujols slipped into a fitted Los Angeles Angels cap and a crisp home white jersey before a crowd of more than 4,000 boisterous fans. — It was 11:50 a.m. to be precise.
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Doug Glanville / ESPN:
Sharing the gift of Albert Pujols — Sorry, Cardinals fans, but it's time to expose his otherworldly skills to the AL — As Scott Rolen and I leaned on the batting cage at home plate, we watched the hitter in the batter's box very closely. Rolen and I had our own language …
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Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
Rangers, Kinsler talking new deal — General manager Jon Daniels has said throughout the off-season that retaining the core players from two World Series runs is the top priority for the Texas Rangers, though for now the process is in the preliminary stages.
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George A. King III / New York Post:
Yanks willing, waiting to make a deal — It makes no difference if they're in a hotel room in Dallas or their Yankee Stadium offices: the Yankees aren't abandoning their patient approach to altering the roster. — Brian Cashman departed the Winter Meetings Thursday not optimistic about signing …
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Ken Gurnick / MLB.com:
Source: Dodgers interested in Mets' Murphy — LOS ANGLES — Daniel Murphy of the Mets is the player the Dodgers tried to trade for at the Winter Meetings, according to a baseball source, and they might make another run at him. — Murphy was the unnamed player general manager Ned Colletti referred …
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Michael Vega / Boston Globe:
Bobby Valentine: Bard to be prepped as starter in spring — Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine said reliever Daniel Bard, who projected as the team's closer after the departure of Jonathan Papelbon to the Philadelphia Phillies, would be prepped as a starter during spring training.
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Alden Gonzalez / MLB.com Hot Stove Blog:
Morales will be tendered contract by Angels — The Angels will indeed tender Kendrys Morales a contract prior to Monday's deadline, general manager Jerry Dipoto confirmed during Saturday's introductory press conference for Albert Pujols and C.J. Wilson. — After finishing fifth in voting …
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Fred Goodall / Globe and Mail:
Matt Moore agrees eight-year deal with Rays — Two months after becoming the youngest starting pitcher to win a team's opening playoff game, Tampa Bay left-hander Matt Moore has agreed to an eight-year contract that could be worth up to US$39.75 million. — The 22-year-old made his major league debut …
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