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ESPN:
Reports: Mets deal for Diamondbacks OF Green — NEW YORK — Outfielder Shawn Green reportedly was traded from the Arizona Diamondbacks to the New York Mets on Tuesday night, giving the NL East leaders one more big bat as they gear up for the postseason. — Two team officials familiar …
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Bucs Dugout
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Steve Gilbert / MLB.com:
D-Backs, Mets complete deal for Green — Veteran waives no-trade clause; deal awaiting approval — SAN FRANCISCO — Shawn Green's career with the Diamondbacks appears to have come to an end. — A baseball source told MLB.com that the veteran outfielder was dealt along with cash considerations …
Ben Walker / Associated Press:
Mets acquire Green from Arizona — NEW YORK (AP) — Outfielder Shawn Green was traded from the Arizona Diamondbacks to the New York Mets on Tuesday night, giving the NL East leaders one more big bat as they gear up for the postseason. — The Diamondbacks sent the 33-year-old Green and cash …
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Baseball Crank
Sports Illustrated:
Moises in their sites — Mets targeting veteran Alou to bolster outfield — The Mets have engaged in serious trade discussions to acquire outfielder Moises Alou from the Giants, SI.com has learned. — It appears now that Alou is actually the Mets' top outfield target, not Shawn Green, as previously thought.
ESPN:
Mets' Glavine doesn't need surgery, will return soon — On Sunday it was feared Tom Glavine might miss the rest of the season. Now, the veteran Mets left-hander might be on the mound as soon as next week. — Sources told ESPN The Magazine's Buster Olney that an angiogram performed Monday revealed …
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Mark Hale / New York Post:
TOM'S TERRIFIC — SOURCE: TEST SAYS GLAV CAN — RETURN IN WEEK — Tom Glavine will be taking the mound again. — A source told The Post last night that the Mets' All-Star left-hander - feared done for the season, maybe even for his career with a possible blood clot in his pitching shoulder …
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Mike's Mets, Viva El Birdos, Metsquire, Hot Foot, Can't Stop The Bleeding and The Sports Frog
Ben Shpigel / New York Times:
Mets' Karma Is Taking a Turn for the Worse — Pedro Martínez blurted out a remark three weeks ago that seemed offhand then, but poignantly prescient now. — Standing in the visitors' clubhouse at Turner Field in Atlanta, Martínez responded to a television commentator's assertion …
Marty Noble / MLB.com:Relieved Glavine to miss just one start
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Chicks Dig The Pitchers' Duel
Jack Curry / New York Times:
Abreu Has Become a Natural Fit In a Patient and Powerful Lineup — About 10 seconds after hearing that Bobby Abreu had been traded from the Philadelphia Phillies to the Yankees, Curt Schilling, who is as much of a baseball analyst as a pitcher, was concerned.
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Bob Ryan / Boston Globe:Warning: These truths may hurt
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NY Daily News, Boston Herald, Baseball Prospectus, Providence Journal and The Sports Frog
ESPN:
Phils' Rowand out 4-6 weeks with broken ankle — As the Phillies make their push for the NL wild card, they will have to do it without starting center fielder Aaron Rowand. — Rowand suffered a fractured left ankle in a scary outfield collision with teammate Chase Utley on Monday night …
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Bleed Cubbie Blue
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Toni Ginnetti / Chicago Sun Times:Marmol on DL; Rusch rushes back to fill void
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Pirates trade Hernandez to Phillies for cash — By Dejan Kovacevic, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette — ATLANTA — The Pirates today traded utilityman Jose Hernandez to the Philadelphia Phillies for an undisclosed amount of cash. — Hernandez, 37, was making $850,000 on a one-year contract.
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Associated Press:
Dodgers-Padres Preview — Jake Peavy has started to turn around his miserable season. That bodes well for the San Diego Padres as they look to defend their NL West crown. — Peavy will try to help the Padres move closer to the first-place Los Angeles Dodgers when the NL West rivals resume their three-game series on Tuesday.
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Ducksnorts
Bloomberg:
New York Yankees Are Losing Money, Cashman Says (Update1) — Aug. 22 (Bloomberg) — The New York Yankees are losing money even as they're winning games, General Manager Brian Cashman said. — The team's highest-in-baseball payroll, revenue-sharing outlay and other expenses eclipse its revenue …
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WasWatching.com
Dave Gorgon / thenewsherald.com:
JLWS umpire nurtures baseball in Romania — Years from now, if baseball becomes popular in Romania, Cristian Manea may be considered the person responsible for getting it there. — Manea, a successful 32-year-old computer business owner in his native Bucharest, became the first umpire …
Deadspin:
Not To Pile On The Red Sox Here, But ... We know that often American celebrities will do advertisements in other countries — or their home countries — that they might not necessarily want to be seen doing here. But that doesn't change the bewilderment of seeing David Ortiz ... doing a boner commercial?
Enrique Rojas / ESPN:
Hall of Fame should embrace Felipe Alou … When speaking of future candidates of Latin descent for the Hall of Fame, the list includes Pedro Martinez, Mariano Rivera and Ivan Rodriguez, as well as Rafael Palmeiro and Sammy Sosa. — But it's possible that none of the above have more genuine credentials …
Matthew Haggman / Miami Herald:
Stadium plan for downtown gets a boost — Major League Baseball has its sights on downtown Miami land for a new Florida Marlins stadium, adding a new twist in the long quest for a new home. — mhaggman@MiamiHerald.com — Reigniting hopes for baseball in downtown Miami …
