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Kevin Goldstein / Baseball Prospectus:
Future Shock — Pre-Draft Pandemonium — I had an interesting afternoon yesterday, getting away from the phone long enough to put on the suit and talk about today's draft with the fine folks on ESPNews' Hot List. During my 12 minute segment I spoke briefly about many of the top players …
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John Sickels / Minor League Ball:
Draft Day — Draft Day! — Main question now is who the Royals pick number one.
Draft Day — Draft Day! — Main question now is who the Royals pick number one.
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David Andriesen / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Mariners expected to take college pitcher
Mariners expected to take college pitcher
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Baseball America:
Tuesday Morning Mock Draft — For the first time since 1999, when the Devil Rays deliberated between Josh Hamilton and Josh Beckett, scouting directors will wake up on draft day without knowing for sure who will go No. 1. The Royals own that pick, and if they've finalized their decision, they've kept it closely guarded.
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Jim Callis / Baseball America:
Draft Blog: Day One — Throughout the first day of the draft, Baseball America's reporters will keep you updated with an ongoing draft day blog. — Last Second Top 10 Projection — 12:57 p.m.: Our last-second projection for the Top 10 . . . 1. KC—Luke Hochevar — 2. Col—Greg Reynolds
Evan Grant / Dallas Morning News:
Alfonseca's return boosts Rangers' bullpen — IF Jimenez expected to be odd man out; move adds flexibility — Rangers manager Buck Showalter said he expects right-handed reliever Antonio Alfonseca to be activated from the disabled list today, giving the club an eight-man bullpen for the foreseeable future.
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Evan Grant / Dallas Morning News:
Rangers' GM faces old dilemma in 1st draft — Daniels deciding between 'best player' vs. 'best fit' at No. 12 — Shortly before noon today, Jon Daniels will sign off on the first draft pick he'll make as the Rangers general manager. But until then, he wrestles with the same, age-old issues that dogged his predecessors.
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Metstradamus / The Musings and Prophecies …:
Showoff — Alay Soler got the Mets a much needed victory...and convincing victory at that...tonight at Dodger Stadium. Soler went seven innings, striking out seven and giving up six hits and only one run in a 4-1 Mets victory over Los Angeles. It was only their second victory …
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Adam Rubin / NY Daily News:
Soler-powered — Rookie's gem lifts Mets in L.A. — LOS ANGELES - Alay Soler had a three-run cushion before he even took the mound. Nine innings later, the Cuban defector had his first major-league win. — Jose Reyes and Carlos Delgado homered in the first inning …
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Chris Snow / Boston Globe:
Battery Park — Yankees unload on Sox, Beckett in Stadium rout — NEW YORK — When Josh Beckett walked off the mound last evening, the sky was still a soft blue, the lingering sun illuminating the Bronx courthouse that looms beyond Yankee Stadium in right-center.
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Jeff Horrigan / Boston Herald:
Beckett collapses — Yankees apply pressure
Beckett collapses — Yankees apply pressure
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Lee Jenkins / New York Times:
Class A Appearance for Clemens, First as an Interior Designer — LEXINGTON, Ky., June 5 — When the Class A Lexington Legends staggered into their clubhouse at 3:30 a.m. Monday, bleary-eyed after an eight-hour bus trip, a few of them might have thought they were dreaming.
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Jose De Jesus Ortiz / Houston Chronicle:
Clemens gives Lexington clubhouse extreme makeover — LEXINGTON, Ky — Until Sunday afternoon, the home clubhouse at Applebee's Park wasn't much of a place to hang out. There was only one small television and an old, musty couch in the center. By Sunday evening, Roger Clemens had furnished …
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USA Today:
Former prep prospect now creating heat in the kitchen after shoulder surgeries — Persistent shoulder injuries early this decade prevented Ryan Anderson from throwing 100-mph heat in the major leagues. Now out of baseball, Anderson is ready to turn up the heat in a new career.
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Dylan Hernandez / Contra Costa Times:
Giants roll as Bonds rocks — Slugger gets homer No. 716 and will get additional support with Alou's return — SAN FRANCISCO - The Giants had crushed the Florida Marlins, Moises Alou was about to be activated, and the clubhouse was theirs again. — Gone were the scores …
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Clark Spencer / Miami Herald:
Rotation is on the rise — SAN FRANCISCO - They're young, but they're durable.
Rotation is on the rise — SAN FRANCISCO - They're young, but they're durable.
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Paul Meyer / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Pirates likely to select a pitcher in first round — Player they are projected to get might stir up memories of former star Pirates pitcher from early '90s — If the teams ahead of them behave as expected, the Pirates almost certainly today will select University of Houston right-hander Brad Lincoln …
David Lennon / Newsday:
Milledge: No regrets about high fives — LOS ANGELES — Any remorse that Lastings Milledge was feeling after high-fiving the fans along the rightfield line Sunday apparently had vanished by the time the Mets boarded their cross-country charter to the West Coast later that night.
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David Heuschkel / Hartford Courant:
Pauley Moves To Bigger Stage — NEW YORK — His first start in the big leagues was considered a huge step because David Pauley had never pitched above Double A. His second start will be even bigger. — "He's not climbing Mount Everest," Curt Schilling said. "He's playing a baseball game at Yankee Stadium."
NY Daily News:
Kids are all right to Brian — In the spring, Brian Cashman says, he and Joe Torre spent a fair amount of time talking to the Yankee kids, to the guys off the bench. The message, Cashman says, was the same, from the first time all the players were together in one room.
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