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Buster Olney / ESPN:
Sources: Padres lining up suitors for shot at Peavy … The San Diego Padres have begun to exchange names with teams interested in All-Star pitcher Jake Peavy, in what appears to be an aggressive effort to maximize return on the right-hander, who is signed to a contract that keeps him under a team's control through 2013.
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Paul DePodesta / It Might Be Dangerous:
On Trading Peavy — Since I have been in Arizona all week, I haven't read the papers or listened to the radio, so I don't know what has been written or what has been said. What I do know, though, is what actually is happening. — We are looking to get better. — It's really that simple.
David O'Brien / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Braves discuss trade for Padres? Peavy — The Braves are trying to fill their biggest need by trading for San Diego right-hander Jake Peavy, a top-tier major-league ace with a Cy Young award and a Southern drawl to boot. — A person familiar with the talks said the Braves and Padres …
Bob Nightengale / USA Today:
Notes: Padres interested in Maddux as a player/coach — The San Diego Padres have talked to Greg Maddux about the possibility of becoming a player/coach in the organization, general manager Kevin Towers said Thursday. — Maddux would become the first player/coach in recent history.
Dan Graziano / New Jersey Online:
Yankees express interest in Padres' Peavy — The Yankees are one of several teams that have had preliminary discussions with the San Diego Padres about a possible trade for 2007 National League Cy Young Award winner Jake Peavy. — According to a person familiar with the substance …
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Adam Kilgore / Boston Globe:
That just happened — If you didn't turn the TV off or go to sleep or leave the yard early, you witnessed something like a miracle tonight, something that wasn't impossible but wasn't quite possible, either, but somewhere in between. — In an effort to make sense of Boston's 8-7 Game 5 victory …
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Michael Silverman / Boston Herald:
Stunning win keeps Sox alive — + Recent Articles + Recent Blog Entries + Email — Nine outs away from going six feet under for the season, the Red Sox [team stats] showed much more than a pulse late in the ALCS Game 5 last night. — The Sox roared back to the prime of life …
St. Petersburg Times:
HEARTBREAKER — Rays first baseman Carlos Pena, left, and relief pitcher J.P. Howell leave the field in the bottom of the ninth inning as Boston's J.D. Drew rounds the bases after driving in the winning run. Boston came back from a 7-0 deficit. — Times] — BOSTON — Time was, your mouth might be dry.
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Amalie Benjamin / Boston Globe:Tonight could be end for Varitek
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ESPN.com:
MLBPA says teams acted in concert against Bonds — NEW YORK — The baseball players' union says it has found evidence teams acted in concert against signing Barry Bonds but it reached an agreement with the commissioner's office to delay the filing of any grievance.
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George A. King III / New York Post:
HANK: CHAMBERLAIN WILL BE IN ROTATION — BOSTON - Yankees honchos gathered at George M. Steinbrenner Field yesterday in Tampa to hatch a plan they hope will make sure this past season when they didn't make the playoffs for the first time since 1993 was a one-year glitch instead of the beginning …
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ESPN.com:
Hank Steinbrenner: Joba likely to start in 2009 — TAMPA, Fla. — Hank Steinbrenner says Joba Chamberlain likely will return to the New York Yankees' rotation at the beginning of the 2009 season. — “The plan as of right now is Chamberlain is going to be a starter,” the Yankees co-chairman …
Tom Haudricourt / Brewers Blog:
Tossing some names out — Boston - As I reported earlier today, Brewers general manager Doug Melvin told me he has a “short list” of former big league managers he's going to talk to regarding the team's managerial position, beyond the interview he already had with interim manager Dale Sveum.
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Adam McCalvy / MLB.com:
Zduriencik reportedly an M's finalist — Brewers' draft guru one of four vying for general manager post — MILWAUKEE — For the second straight year, the Brewers appear at risk of losing their highly regarded scouting director. — Jack Zduriencik, Milwaukee's amateur scouting boss since 2000 …
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