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New York Times:
Clemens's Lawyers Not Worried About What Pettitte Will Say — WASHINGTON — Roger Clemens arrives here for his own Super Tuesday this week, a showdown with his former trainer in closed-door testimony to Congressional lawyers. — Clemens is scheduled to give a transcribed interview Tuesday …
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NY Daily News:
YES won't inject steroids into reports — Yankees Entertainment & Sports Network suits have already cast aspersions on George Mitchell's report on steroids in baseball. — After watching YES' “Hot Stove” feature on Phil Hughes, it appears, according to YES, certain allegations made about Roger Clemens don't really exist.
Larry Stone / The Seattle Times:
M's will pay big price if Bedard deal is a go — If the Mariners' trade with the Orioles doesn't work out, maybe they should call the Sonics. — The trio of young pitchers they're talking to Baltimore about as part of the Erik Bedard package — 6-foot-9 Kam Mickolio …
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Jon Shields / Bleeding Blue and Teal:
Stone on Bedard Trade; Rumors — First of all, Larry Stone of the Seattle Times wrote an article about the proposed Erik Bedard trade. A couple items of note: — Adam Jones never went to Baltimore for a physical, according to Stone. — Stone appears certain that George Sherrill …
Bill Center / San Diego Union-Tribune:
Padres get Greene for two years, offered longer — The Padres will never have to sit across an arbitration table from Khalil Greene. — The shortstop gave up the rights to two possible years of arbitration yesterday by agreeing to a two-year, $11 million guaranteed contract with the Padres.
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Mark Gonzales / Chicago Tribune:
Cox gives Sox lessons from an old school — Coach will hammer on fundamental concepts from his ‘Billy Ball’ roots — Before Ozzie Ball, there was Billy Ball. — And Jeff Cox, who contributed to Oakland's 1980 resurgence under volatile manager Billy Martin, hopes to help Ozzie Guillen's White Sox master …
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Marty Noble / MLB.com:
Compromise, creativity sealed deal — Santana passes physical; Minaya discusses negotiations — NEW YORK — Motivation is where and in whatever form you find it. At some point just before 5 p.m. ET Friday, Omar Minaya seemingly found some in the fear of failure.
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Chris Kline / Baseball America Prospects Blog:
Licey Remains Undefeated — SANTIAGO, D.R.-It took 11 innings, but Licey finally eked out a 2-1 win against Mexico to remain undefeated in the Caribbean Series and set up an even more meaningful matchup when they square off against Aguilas Monday night. — After lefthander Adrian Ramirez …
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Associated Press
Dayn Perry / Fox Sports:
Bringing hope to the hopeless — Dayn Perry is a frequent contributor to FOXSports.com and author of the new book, “Winners: How Good Baseball Teams Become Great Ones” (Available now at Amazon.com). — Mostly, each baseball season is about the contenders.
Steve Serby / New York Post:
WILDEST DREAMS CAN COME TRUE — SACKS, PICKS, TDS, A TITLE - AND AN ICE CREAM SUNDAE — Gibril grew up in the Bay area and remembers watching Deion Sanders on Media Day. — “I just told myself that's what I wanted to do.” — His dream game? — “Having all the confetti coming down …
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Maury Brown / The Biz of Baseball:
By the Numbers: 19 Deals with Salary Arbitration Players — A Detailed Analysis of 19 Major League Baseball Player Contracts that Avoid Salary Arbitration — On January 16th of this year, 110 players filed for salary arbitration. Two days later, that list was whittled down to 48 players …
JSOnline:
Picking up the tab — Signing Brewers' young stars will be costly — Milwaukee Brewers general manager Doug Melvin spent much of the off-season turning down trade offers for the young players around whom he has built a contending club. — Now, it's time to decide which of those players …
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Al's Ramblings
Chris Kline / Baseball America Prospects Blog:
Salcedo Rumors — SANTIAGO, D.R.-There are rumors swirling around the Dominican Republic, as well as the Internet, that the Indians have signed 16-year-old shortstop Edward Salcedo, but as of today he is still a free agent. — Salcedo's agent, Scott Boras, is in negotiations with Cleveland …
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MLB Rumors
Mark Herrmann / Newsday:
Early opener for Strat fans — The fact that there was no ceremonial first pitch, no star singing the national anthem, no player introductions and fancy red-white-and blue bunting strewn anywhere was all purely incidental. The men who were there Friday knew the score.
Troy E. Renck / Denver Post:
Taveras ready to go — Tucked away in the corner of the clubhouse, Soulja Boy's “Crank Dat” blaring above the screams, Willy Taveras and Kazuo Matsui celebrated the Rockies' wild-card tiebreaker victory over the San Diego Padres. — Matsui grabbed the bottle and showed Taveras how to pop the top.
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Purple Row
Marty Noble / MLB.com:
Mets agree to deal with pitcher Sosa — Organization continues to avoid going to arbitration hearings — NEW YORK — With so much of their attention focused on Johan Santana, the Mets still were able to negotiate a contract with another player on Saturday.
Curt Schilling / 38 Pitches:
Sean Casey a Sox! — I heard yesterday that we signed Sean Casey. To have someone of his talent come here as a potential platoon player and role filler is huge. — I've known Sean and competed against him for a long time. I think he's gotten the best of me more than I on him.
