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Andrew Baggarly / Mercury News:
Losses may force Giants into sell-off — SABEAN, BONDS WON'T RULE OUT A TRADE — BOSTON - The Giants have not been sellers at the July 31 trade deadline during Brian Sabean's decade-long tenure, but with the club 10 games out and firmly in last place in the division …
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MLB Trade Rumors
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Jeff Goldberg / Hartford Courant:
Bonds Strikes, But Sox Sweep — BOSTON — Fifteen years and 571 home runs ago, Barry Bonds and Tim Wakefield were teammates in Pittsburgh. — The last game Bonds won in a Pirates uniform was Game 6 of the 1992 National League Championship Series, when Wakefield, a rookie, threw his second complete-game victory of the series.
Amalie Benjamin / Boston Globe:
Donnelly's sore forearm needs relief — Brendan Donnelly has the old-time baseball thing going. A sense of vengeance and, apparently, a distaste for interleague play. — When approached before the game for his take on his move to the disabled list , which came down yesterday, Donnelly would say only, "I don't do interleague play."
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Peter's Red Sox Forever
Amalie Benjamin / Boston Globe:Giant killers — Resurgent bats, Piñeiro's arm help Red Sox finish sweep
ESPN:
Sources: O's likely to fire Perlozzo, target Girardi — The Baltimore Orioles were busy at work Monday trying to stay above the fray of Major League Baseball's worst teams. — High-ranking baseball sources have told ESPN The Magazine's Buster Olney that Sam Perlozzo is likely to be fired …
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Baltimore Sun:
Source: O's fire Perlozzo … Sam Perlozzo was fired as manager of the Orioles this morning, according to a club source. — Perlozzo, 56, a Cumberland native who called managing the Orioles his dream job, will be removed about 2 1/2 months into his second full season leading the club.
Joel Sherman / New York Post:
SUPERMAN A-ROD IN LINE FOR $30 MILLION A YEAR — IT is easy to forget now in the fusillade of more homers, more RBIs, more greatness that Alex Rodriguez actually slumped for nearly a month this season. — Yet embedded in that slump were signs that Rodriguez would not only come out in a powerful way …
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Ben Maller's Sports …
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Mike Fitzpatrick / Associated Press:
Wang, A-Rod lead Yankees over Mets 8-2 — NEW YORK (AP) — Alex Rodriguez hit his major league-leading 27th homer, Chien-Ming Wang came within one out of a complete game and the New York Yankees won the second Subway Series of the season Sunday night with an 8-2 victory over the stumbling Mets.
Mark Hale / New York Post:PAUL IN PAIN — LO DUCA DAY TO DAY AFTER INJURING TRICEP
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MetsBlog.com
Adam Rubin / NY Daily News:
Aching Beltran can see Star trek — Carlos Beltran, the NL's leading vote-getter, has no intention of skipping the July 10 All-Star Game in San Francisco, even though he suggested he could use a week off to rest a nagging left quadriceps injury that he indicated was a tear. — "Three days?
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MetsBlog.com
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Gregor Chisholm / MLB.com:
Notes: Young ready for Tigers reunion — Red-hot first baseman bears no ill will towards former team — TORONTO — Washington first baseman Dmitri Young will have an opportunity to take on his former team when the Nationals open a three-game series against the Tigers on Monday night at Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium.
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Barry Svrluga / Washington Post:
Bowie Finds a Home In Nationals' Rotation — Brian Schneider was ready to shower at the end of a nine-game trip Sunday afternoon, but he considered the list in his head — starting pitchers for the Washington Nationals who are flung about the country pitching in the minors …
Joe Frisaro / MLB.com:
Notes: Carroll called up to Marlins — Outfielder makes his Major League debut in KC finale — KANSAS CITY — Golf protocol prevented Brett Carroll's mother, Laura, from blurting out a loud scream on Saturday. — Called up from Triple-A Albuquerque, the 24-year-old Carroll is making …
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New York Post:
BOMBERS CONSIDER DEAL FOR HILLENBRAND — The Yankees have talked to the Angels about Shea Hillenbrand, a right-handed hitting first baseman they were interested in this past offseason when he was a free agent. — Hillenbrand's playing time with the Angels has been reduced …
Discussion:
MLB Trade Rumors
Clay Davenport / Baseball Prospectus:
Bonds homered over the weekend... Up to 748 now, after Saturday's Fenway shot. That isn't enough to change his chances of making it by the All-Star break any (still 13%) there, but it does drop his "not this year" chances back into the sevens; the only way "not this year" happens is with an injury …
Alex McPhillips / MLB.com:
Notes: Delcarmen back in big leagues — Donnelly hits DL with tight forearm; cross-country tour awaits — BOSTON — Right-hander Manny Delcarmen was back home in Boston on Sunday, nearly three weeks after his lone 2007 cup of coffee came to an abrupt end.
The Journal News:
Posada's style, value reminiscent of Munson's — NEW YORK - There aren't many people, maybe nobody else, who would go and sit in Thurman Munson's empty locker in the Yankees' clubhouse. — Ron Guidry does every once in a while. He'll go in for inspiration.
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Bronx Banter
