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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, was removed about 2 1/2 months into his second full season leading the club.
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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.
Dan Connolly / Baltimore Sun:
MacPhail to join O's as COO … The Orioles have agreed in principle with former Chicago Cubs and Minnesota Twins executive Andy MacPhail to be the club's next chief operating officer, a baseball official confirmed today. — Reached by phone this morning, MacPhail, 54 …
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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.
Roch Kubatko / Roch Around the Clock:
Trying to find players — Hey everyone. — I'm still at the warehouse, trying to track down players to comment on the managerial change. It would be a lot easier if reporters were allowed inside the clubhouse. Or here's a thought: Outside the clubhouse.
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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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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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Mark Hale / New York Post:PAUL IN PAIN — LO DUCA DAY TO DAY AFTER INJURING TRICEP
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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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Amalie Benjamin / Boston Globe:Donnelly's sore forearm needs relief
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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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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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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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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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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 …
