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Aaron Gleeman / Hardball Times:
Bowden 1, Krivsky 0 — Lopsided trades happen all the time. In fact, it's the very nature of trading that a large percentage of swaps involve one team getting significantly more in return than the other team. Even completely one-sided deals—the ones that cause guys like me to express amazement …
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Ken Rosenthal / Fox Sports:
Notes: White Sox, Carlos Lee and more — White Sox general manager Ken Williams might be aggressive, but he isn't reckless. So, discount any reports that he's willing to trade right-hander Brandon McCarthy and center fielder Brian Anderson to the Giants for right-hander Jason Schmidt.
Dave Sheinin / Washington Post:
Nats, Reds Make 8-Player Trade — With Eye on the Future, Washington Signals the Likelihood of More Deals — The Washington Nationals pulled off an eight-player trade with the Cincinnati Reds yesterday that exploded several of the most widespread assumptions about the franchise's direction under …
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Capitol Punishment, MLB.com, The Curly W, Church of Baseball, The Nationals Enquirer and Banks of the Anacostia
Thomas Boswell / Washington Post:
Bowden's Club Makeover Gets Off to a Promising Start — In every major personnel decision, the Nationals' goal is to build a coherently constructed pennant contender in three or four years. Sooner is luck. Later is behind schedule. Judge their many moves by that measure and they'll make more sense.
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Ben Maller
Adam Rubin / NY Daily News:
Sox-y offer to Mets — As Pedro ails, Javy available — CHICAGO - The Mets may have found a partner willing to deal a starting pitcher after all, which could be even more pressing as Pedro Martinez is about to miss his third straight start. — The White Sox have been calling around to clubs …
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T.R. Sullivan / MLB.com:
Rangers blast past Orioles — Teixeira hits three homers; DeRosa, Wilkerson, Barajas go yard — BALTIMORE — Mark Teixeira and Brad Wilkerson did not quite have the kind of first half that the Rangers were hoping for from them. — The second half, after just one game, bodes much better.
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Evan Grant / Dallas Morning News:
Rangers' reunited platoon is a hit — Showalter opts for Mench and Wilkerson - and gets three hits — BALTIMORE - The Rangers' search for a consistent offense has led them back to playing Brad Wilkerson and Kevin Mench regularly. — Rangers manager Buck Showalter put …
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Lone Star Ball
T.R. Sullivan / MLB.com:
Pitching key as trade deadline looms — Texas thinking of adding an extra arm to bolster rotation — The July 31 trade deadline approaches, so that means the Rangers are looking for pitching. — That seems to be an annual quest for them, although it takes on greater significance this season …
Baseball Prospectus:
MILWAUKEE BREWERS — A quick glance at Clay Davenport's Adjusted Standings Report suggests there's something seriously wrong in Beertown. At 411 runs scored, the Brewers are in the middle of the pack. However, they're at the wrong end of the runs allowed rankings with 485, worst in the National League.
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Tom Haudricourt / JSOnline:
Offense worries Melvin — Brewers GM concerned about recent slump — thaudricourt@journalsentinel.com — As the Milwaukee Brewers prepare to open the second half of their season tonight in Arizona, they rank last in the National League in both pitching and fielding.
New York Post:
YANKEES AND METS BOTH INQUIRE ABOUT ABREU — July 14, 2006 — BOBBY Abreu is both appealing and repelling, an enigma within an All-Star. He could prove a difference-maker in a playoff race or a reminder that the New York teams should never acquire expensive players with makeup issues.
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Gordon Edes / Boston Globe:
Sox in great shape coming off break — "Our record's what it is. That's what matters. I do think this is the most comfortable I've been with a team since I've been here." —Terry Francona, Red Sox manager. (AP Photo) — The immutable truth is this: For all the sound and fury …
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Yanksfan vs Soxfan
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Steve Henson / Los Angeles Times:
Pujols Pounds Perez in 14th — Long home run ends Cardinals' 3-2 victory. Dodgers left-hander says he has been 'treated like trash' and wants to get out of the doghouse. — ST. LOUIS — Good intentions gone awry. That's the story of Odalis Perez's season, in his own words.
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Baseball Musings
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Ira Berkow / New York Times:
Mets' Bannister: Forgotten, but Not Gone — PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla., July 12 — It looked lonely on the ball field. Under an overcast morning sky, with a wind picking up that swayed the nearby palm trees and portended rain, a man alone — a man who had seemingly and suddenly fallen off the baseball map — threw from the mound.
Mike Beirne / brandweek.com:
Holiday Inn Steps Up to the Plate for MLB — CHICAGO — After a stop at the All-Star Game, Holiday Inn now begins injecting its Major League Baseball sponsorship into the daily lives of consumers by rolling the" Ultimate Baseball Road Trip" into Detroit this weekend for the Tigers series against the Kansas City Royals.
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Can't Stop The Bleeding
