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Nick Piecoro / Arizona Republic:
GM Byrnes may have quiet winter — Compared with his other two off-seasons with the Diamondbacks, General Manager Josh Byrnes' winter could be a quiet one. — Two years ago, he traded Javier Vazquez for Chris Young. Last year, there were deals for Doug Davis and Randy Johnson.
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Nick Piecoro / Arizona Republic:
Diamondbacks finished off in 4 — DENVER - For once, everyone was right about the Diamondbacks. — Their improbable run through October ended Monday night at Coors Field, where the merciless Colorado Rockies completed a four-game sweep of the National League Championship Series with a 6-4 victory …
Troy E. Renck / Denver Post:
ROCKIES WIN THE PENNANT — NL champion Colorado, on 21-1 roll, dashes toward first Series — It's impossible to stretch the truth. Hyperbole doesn't fit. — The Rockies, a team that was too young in April, too hurt in August and too far behind in September, are going to the World Series.
Mike Celizic / MSNBC:
Rockies would be royalty if on East Coast — Amazing run by no-names is like nothing we've seen in baseball before — This is a terrific team that's stormed out of the thin air of Denver and into the even thinner national TV ratings they're drawing from an audience that has no idea who the Colorado Rockies are.
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Can't Stop The Bleeding
Arnie Stapleton / Associated Press:
Colorado 6, Arizona 4 — DENVER (AP) — Riding a Rocky Mountain High like none other, Colorado is heading to its first World Series. — With their 21st win in 22 games, the relentless Rockies beat the rattled Arizona Diamondbacks 6-4 in Game 4 Monday night to sweep the NL championship series at a chilly Coors Field.
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Amalie Benjamin / Boston Globe:
Veteran Wakefield is game for this start — CLEVELAND - Tim Wakefield knew it was a risk he was going to have to take. He knew, if the Red Sox failed to advance past the American League Division Series, that his season might be over. He knew also that he simply couldn't help the team …
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Dan Shaughnessy / Boston Globe:
Cuffed in Cleveland — Sox trail in series, 2-1, as bats stay quiet — CLEVELAND - Fenway Park was bursting with hubris and expectation Saturday night when Manny Ramírez and Mike Lowell hit back-to-back homers in the fifth inning of Game 2 of the American League Championship Series against the Indians.
ESPN:
Agent says Mattingly ready to manage Yankees — Don Mattingly's agent refuted a report Tuesday that said he was uncomfortable replacing Joe Torre as the Yankees' manager. — The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J., citing a friend of the Yankees bench coach, reported that Mattingly had informed …
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Joel Sherman / New York Post:YANKS' NEW WORLD BABY BOSSES TAKE OVER GEORGE
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Steven Goldman / New York Sun:
If Baker Is a Hot Commodity, Torre Deserves a Job — The following isn't an argument for retaining Joe Torre as manager of the Yankees, but a study in contrasts. Yesterday afternoon, the Cincinnati Reds officially named Dusty Baker as the team's new manager.
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Matthew Cerrone / MetsBlog.com:
Quote: $30 M per Year is Idiotic — Last Friday, former-Braves GM and current team president John Schuerholz appeared as a guest on Colin Cowherd's ESPN radio show. — Schuerholz, on super-agent Scott Boras, and his suggestion that Alex Rodriguez could be worth $30 million per season, while speaking to Cowherd...
New York Post:
SLEEP WITH JETER, PARK FREE — IF Bronx Bomber Derek Jeter wants to keep his sex life a secret, he should learn to tie up any post-tryst loose ends. — Our spy in the lobby of the Shore Club in Miami early Sunday morning spotted "two scantily clad women screaming at the front desk …
Associated Press:
Angels GM Stoneman retires; Reagins takes over — ANAHEIM, Calif. — Los Angeles Angels general manager Bill Stoneman retired Tuesday and was replaced by player development director Tony Reagins. — The 63-year-old Stoneman became the Angels' GM in November 1999 and helped build the team into a perennial contender.
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Chronicles of the Lads
Maury Brown / The Biz of Baseball:
Lowrider: TBS Will See Lowest Rated LCS in History — With TBS finishing up their first MLB postseason broadcasts, they can look back fondly at the Division Series, and look painfully at the NLCS. — As reported last week, Game One of the NLCS between the Rockies and the Diamondbacks …
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Will Leitch / Fair and Foul:
First-Timers — One of the more sublime and lasting pleasures of following a Major League Baseball franchise is looking forward to your young stars of tomorrow. As much fun as it might be to speculate on your team's offseason free agent signings, nothing can quite match the excitement …
Kieran Nicholson / Denver Post:
World Series ticket outlook: It's tricky — Feeling lucky? — That's what it will take, along with cold hard cash or credit, to score tickets to the upcoming World Series. — Now that the Rockies have advanced, World Series tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Monday.
ESPN.com:
Cards keep Pineiro for rotation with two-year deal — ST. LOUIS — Joel Pineiro agreed to a $13 million, two-year contract with St. Louis on Monday after pitching well for the Cardinals down the stretch. — The right-hander went 6-4 in 11 starts with St. Louis after being acquired …
