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Baltimore Sun:
O's fire Perlozzo … Sam Perlozzo was fired as manager of the Orioles this morning, the club announced at an afternoon news conference. — 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.
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ESPN:
Perlozzo out as skipper; MacPhail hired as COO — Sam Perlozzo's brief tenure as Orioles manager ended Monday. — The team has called a 1 p.m. news conference where it will announce that Perlozzo has been fired. Orioles executives Mike Flanagan and Jim Duquette informed Perlozzo of the decision Monday …
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StatsGuru / Baseball Musings:
Orioles News Conference — I just received a tip that the Orioles are going to hold a news conference at 12:30 PM Eastern to announce a change in managers. ESPN says it's Girardi, but my source says Tom Trebelhorn. It's possible Trebelhorn is temporary until Girardi gets to Baltimore.
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Fox Sports
Sabernomics:
How Not to Run a Baseball Franchise — The Baltimore Orioles have just fired their manager, Sam Perlozzo, after holding the position for a little more than one full season. Perlozzo took over the team on an interim basis in August 2005, and was awarded the permanent position after the season.
David Lennon / On the Mets beat:
Manuel to O's? — In the wake of all these losses piling up for the Mets, could they lose bench coach Jerry Manuel, too? It appears that the firing of manager Sam Perlozzo is imminent in Baltimore — possibly today — and Manuel could be at the top of the Orioles' list.
Anthony DiComo / MLB.com:
Lo Duca hurt in Subway Series finale — Catcher leaves game after getting plunked, likely to miss time — NEW YORK — As if June's troubles hadn't already plunged the Mets to a new low — at least the lowest perch any first-place team is likely to see — they added injury to insult …
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Hot Stove New York
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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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Mark Hale / New York Post:PAUL IN PAIN — LO DUCA DAY TO DAY AFTER INJURING TRICEP
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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.
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Amalie Benjamin / Boston Globe:Donnelly's sore forearm needs relief
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Peter's Red Sox Forever
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
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Jay Jaffe / Baseball Prospectus:
Hip Hip Jorge — Reader DT writes: … This is one I've been meaning to get to for a couple of weeks. Having started to warm to the idea in my preliminary investigations, I pulled Posada's name out of the air when asked in my recent chat, "Who is one player that you think has turned …
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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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 …
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MLB Trade Rumors
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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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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Peter Abraham / The LoHud Yankees Blog:
Yankees sign two players from China — Greetings from the JetBlue terminal at JFK. I just got this e-mail from the Yankees ... YANKEES SIGN TWO PLAYERS FROM PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA — The New York Yankees announced today that they have signed left-handed pitcher Kai Liu …
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 …
One More Dying Quail:
Who Doesn't Love A Good Baseball Ejection? — Some fans will try to tell you that the triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Others will cast a vote for the homerun, particularly those of the high, majestic variety. And a few will insist that nothing could be better than an important strikeout on a perfectly executed pitch.
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