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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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Christina Kahrl / Baseball Prospectus:
TA: Breakout — The Nats Go Red, and the Reds Go Nuts — IN THIS ISSUE — National League — Acquired RHP Gary Majewski, LHP Bill Bray, SS-R Royce Clayton, INF-R Brendan Harris, and RHP Daryl Thompson from the Nationals for OF-R Austin Kearns, SS-B Felipe Lopez, and RHP Ryan Wagner …
Bill Ladson / MLB.com:
Nats land Kearns, Lopez from Reds — Washington parts with Majewski, Clayton, three others — PITTSBURGH — Looking to get better in the long term, the Nationals began what could be an eventful run to the July 31 trade deadline with an eight-player deal on Thursday, acquiring outfielder Austin Kearns …
Ken Rosenthal / Fox Sports:Notes: White Sox, Carlos Lee and more
Discussion:
Balls, Sticks, & Stuff
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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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.
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:
10 things the Brewers need to do to make the playoffs — Now's the time to gear up for run at post-season — thaudricourt@journalsentinel.com — The Milwaukee Brewers have had a few days to assimilate just how damaging the final weekend of the first half was to their 2006 playoff hopes.
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 …
Discussion:
Lone Star Ball
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MLB.com:
Angels place pitcher Kelvim Escobar on 15-day disabled list; Club recalls infielder Howie Kendrick from Triple-A Salt Lake — ANAHEIM, Calif. — The Angels Friday placed RHP Kelvim Escobar on the 15-day disabled list (retroactive to July 7) with irritation of the right elbow.
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6-4-2
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Ken Rosenthal / Fox Sports:
Angels' Escobar goes on DL — The Angels have put right-hander Kelvim Escobar on the disabled list with irritation in his right elbow. — Escobar was sidelined for more than two months last year after undergoing surgery to shave down a bone spur and remove a bone chip from the same elbow.
Ken Gurnick / MLB.com:
Dodgers fall in 14 innings in St. Louis — Perez allows game-winning homer to Pujols — ST. LOUIS — It truly was a series of unfortunate events that led the Dodgers to start the second half on a sour note. — And we're not only talking about the walk-off home run Albert Pujols slugged off Odalis Perez …
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Dodger Thoughts
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Associated Press:
Botched bobbleheads — O's return 20,000 dark-skinned Roberts replicas — BALTIMORE (AP) — Orioles players have joked in the past that they didn't look like their bobblehead dolls. But when a recent shipment of Brian Roberts bobbleheads arrived, team officials knew something was wrong.
Discussion:
The Griddle
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.
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.
Discussion:
Mike's Mets
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 …
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
