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ESPN:
Rocket re-launch: Clemens rejoins Astros — HOUSTON — Roger Clemens is coming out of retirement for the third time, agreeing to a $22 million contract to pitch for the Houston Astros for the rest of 2006. — The 43-year-old Clemens, who will be entering his 23rd major league season …
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Jim Molony / MLB.com:
Done deal: Rocket returns to Astros — Clemens set for June 22 return to Houston rotation — HOUSTON — Retirement and the Hall of Fame will have to wait a little longer for Roger Clemens, because The Rocket has decided to go on one final mission for Houston.
Associated Press:
Rocket's return — Clemens signs pro-rated $22 million deal with Astros — HOUSTON (AP) — Roger Clemens is coming out of retirement for the third time, agreeing to a $22 million contract to pitch for the Houston Astros for the rest of 2006. — The 43-year-old Clemens …
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Tony Massarotti / Boston Herald:
Stuck with each other — TORONTO - We've said it before and we'll say it again: Don't blame the people who cash the checks. Blame the people who write them. — Matt Clement got his cookies handed to him again last night, this time in the form of a 7-6 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays that had the Red Sox swimming upstream.
Kit Stier / MLB.com:
Mets promote top prospect Milledge — Nady placed on disabled list after undergoing appendectomy — NEW YORK — Another piece in a puzzle that the Mets hope one day will lead to years of long lasting success arrived at Shea Stadium in unexpected fashion Monday evening.
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Ian Harrison / MLB.com:
Notes: Pauley to make his debut — Right-hander called up from Portland with Wells hurt — TORONTO — With one David down, the Red Sox got another to take his place. — Right-hander David Pauley joined the Sox in Toronto on Tuesday and is expected to make his Major League debut …
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David Heuschkel / Hartford Courant:
Pauley Gets Call From Double A — Righthander Relies On Sinker — TORONTO — David Pauley will make the jump from Double A tonight when he starts against the Blue Jays, filling in for David Wells, who will be placed on the disabled list. — "The more we talked and kind of laid out some scenarios …
Jeff Horrigan / Boston Herald:
Wells heads to DL; Pauley gets a start — TORONTO - David Wells was hardly in the right place at the right time last Friday, when he was struck on his problematic right knee by a Travis Lee liner at Fenway Park. — David Pauley, however, was in the ideal spot when the Red Sox needed someone …
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MLB.com
Dallas Morning News:
Home not so sweet for Cordero — If you skip the drivel here at the top and go down to the questions and answers, you are going to say: "Why didn't that idiot address what in the world is going on with Francisco Cordero? I know I asked a question about it."
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Guy Curtright / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Braves' Moore to become Royals GM — Assistant GM, 39, was considered Schuerholz' heir apparent — Braves assistant general manager Dayton Moore is leaving the team to become general manager of the Kansas City Royals, two people familiar with the deal in Atlanta and Kansas City confirmed to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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Braves Journal
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Bob Dutton / Kansas City Star:
Royals fire Baird to clear path for hiring Moore as GM — OAKLAND, Calif. — The Royals fired general manager Allard Baird on this morning in anticipation of announcing the hiring of Atlanta assistant Dayton Moore as his replacement. — The club declined official comment regarding the moves, but Baird confirmed he had been fired.
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The Daily Lancer
Will Carroll / Baseball Prospectus:
Under The Knife — Advocatus Diaboli — Every once in a while I'll read an article that makes me think that injury analysis is breaking into the mainstream. Bob Klapisch, you had me at Halladay. Powered by Sport Beans—I'm serious!—on to the injuries:
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Derrick Goold / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:Edmonds has tests — Cardinals center fielder Jim Edmonds …
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Viva El Birdos
Sam Borden / NY Daily News:
Sheff may go on DL yet again — DETROIT - Just as the Yankees thought Gary Sheffield was getting healthy, they find out he may be heading right back to the disabled list. — Sheffield was frustrated and despondent last night as he exited Comerica Park, stopping only briefly to talk with the Daily News and one other reporter.
Sam Borden / NY Daily News:
Marlins sink talk of trade — DETROIT - There was plenty of speculation yesterday that the Yankees, Phillies and Marlins were working on a three-way deal that would put Pat Burrell in pinstripes, send Dontrelle Willis to Philadelphia and stock the low-budget Marlins with prospects, but the trade talk was quickly shot down.
Barry Svrluga / Washington Post:
Eischen Likely Out for Season — PHILADELPHIA, May 31 — Washington Nationals reliever Joey Eischen, a veteran who earned respect by taking the ball whenever manager Frank Robinson wanted but who has been ineffective this season, has an injury to the rotator cuff in his left shoulder and likely …
Chris Girandola / MLB.com:
Notes: Lo Duca leading All-Star voting — Mets catcher has slim lead over Piazza for starting nod — NEW YORK — Paul Lo Duca was announced as the leading All-Star vote-getter for National League catchers in the first totals released by Major League Baseball.
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USA Today:
Baseball's Rockies seek revival on two levels — DENVER — No copies of Playboy or Penthouse are in the clubhouse of baseball's Colorado Rockies. There's not even a Maxim. The only reading materials are daily newspapers, sports and car magazines and the Bible.
