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ESPN:
Source: Jorge Posada to retire — The “Core Four” is down to two. — Posada — New York Yankees catcher Jorge Posada is planning to retire, a source told ESPN The Magazine's Buster Olney. — The source told Olney that Posada, 40, is trying to determine the right time to make an announcement …
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Zach Links / MLB Rumors:
Jorge Posada To Announce Retirement — Jorge Posada will announce his retirement within the next two weeks, a source tells Sweeny Murti of WFAN (via Twitter). Previously, it was reported that Posada wanted to continue playing in 2012 if he could find the right situation.
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Howie Rumberg / Associated Press:
AP Source: Yankees Posada set to retire — NEW YORK (AP)—Catcher Jorge Posada is planning to retire after 17 seasons with the New York Yankee rather than pursue opportunities with other teams. — A person familiar with the decision told The Associated Press on Saturday that the five …
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Fox Sports:
Yankees' Posada is planning to retire — One by one, the Core Four is bidding farewell. — Catcher Jorge Posada, a member of the New York Yankees for his entire 17-year career, plans to announce his retirement, according to a major league source. — Posada, 40, is not expected …
Nick Cafardo / Boston Globe:
Good starting point for Sox is 200 innings — The Red Sox were one of seven teams that didn't have a pitcher log 200 innings last year. They were joined by the Royals, Nationals, Reds, Pirates, Rockies, and Padres. None of them made the playoffs, and only the Red Sox finished over .500.
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Chris Haft / MLB.com:
Inbox: How high is Pablo's ceiling? — What are the chances of Pablo Sandoval or Nate Schierholtz having a breakout year like Kevin Mitchell did? Mitchell clubbed 47 home runs with 125 RBIs in 1989 after hitting 19 homers the previous season. — It's easy to envision Sandoval becoming one of the National League's elite hitters.
Troy E. Renck / Denver Post:
Larry Walker is more Rockies royalty than Hall of Famer — Larry Walker didn't get my vote. Perhaps that's where we should start the debate. Filling out my first Hall of Fame ballot was a welcomed challenge. Writers often lament the task, practically on pins and needles because of the pins and needles of baseball's steroid era.
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Purple Row
Bill Shaikin / Los Angeles Times:
Disney family to bid for Dodgers, sources say — Stanley Gold, who runs the investment firm for the family of the late Roy Disney, is in talks with investors about buying the Dodgers, sources say. — Stanley Gold, right, with the late Roy Disney in 2004. (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)
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Mark Saxon / ESPN:
Reports: Angels, Kendrick agree to extension — The Los Angeles Angels made a major splash in free agency at the winter meetings, but Saturday they locked up one of their own. — The team and second baseman Howie Kendrick have reached agreement on a four-year contract extension worth $33.5 million, according to multiple reports.
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Carrie Muskat / MLB.com:
Cubs acquire Rizzo in trade with Padres — Club expects first baseman to start season in Triple-A — CHICAGO — Jed Hoyer admitted he may have made a mistake calling Anthony Rizzo up to the big leagues last season with the Padres, but that didn't deter the new Cubs general manager …
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Gordon Wittenymyer / Chicago Sun Times:
Cubs acquire Anthony Rizzo from Padres in 4-player deal
Cubs acquire Anthony Rizzo from Padres in 4-player deal
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Baseball Nation and baseballmusings.com
Bruce Weber / New York Times:
Andy Carey, 80, Played Third Base for Yankees, Is Dead — Andy Carey, an underappreciated cog in the powerful Yankees machine of the 1950s that won four consecutive American League pennants and two World Series, died on Dec. 15 at his home in Costa Mesa, Calif. He was 80.
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R.A. Dickey / Bats:
In a Hemingway Idyll, Intimations of Tolkien — R. A. Dickey, the Mets pitcher, is climbing Mount Kilimanjaro this month to raise awareness for the Bombay Teen Challenge, an organization that rescues and cares for women and girls in Mumbai who are at risk of being abused and exploited.
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Amazin' Avenue
ESPN:
Ben Petrick's battle — Retired MLB catcher Ben Petrick provides a glimpse into his life as he battles Parkinson's disease. … Petrick comes running back from his SUV with the keys for the Glencoe locker room. In that brief sprint — and it is a full sprint — he shows no signs of Parkinson's effects.
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BBTF's Baseball Primer …