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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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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
Dave Sheinin / Washington Post:Nats, Reds Make 8-Player Trade
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Capitol Punishment, The Curly W, The Nationals Enquirer, Church of Baseball, MLB.com and Banks of the Anacostia
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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the metropolitans, MLB.com, Amazin' Avenue, MLB Trade Rumors, South Side Sox and Chicks Dig The Pitchers' Duel
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NY Daily News:
Jose not ready to play — CHICAGO - Jose Reyes, who got seven stitches to his left pinkie when he was spiked on a headfirst slide into first base last Friday, isn't ready to return to the lineup. "I can't put my hand in the glove yet," said Reyes, who still has the stitches in his hand and some swelling in the area.
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Hot Foot
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.
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Balls, Sticks, & Stuff
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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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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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.
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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Amalie Benjamin / Boston Globe:
Sox don't have 'A' game in extras — Oakland gets to Tavarez for pair in the 11th — The first single, bounced off the Green Monster, made about as much of an impression on the venerable Wall as it elicited a peep from the remainder of the 36,141 at Fenway Park as the clock drew toward midnight.
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Associated Press:
Brocail back with Padres after two angioplasties, rehab — SAN DIEGO — Padres reliever Doug Brocail was activated from the disabled list Thursday, a little over four months after undergoing the first of two heart angioplasties during the spring. — "I think that the doctor did such a good job …
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.
Murray Chass / New York Times:
As Bonds Faces Possible Day in Court, Selig Faces a Quandary — EARLIER in the season, Barry Bonds's chase of Babe Ruth was the focus of baseball enthusiasts. These days, the focus is still on Bonds, but it has nothing to do with him hitting home runs. Now the focus is on the government's pursuit of Bonds.
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Only Baseball Matters
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
