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Adam McCalvy / MLB.com:
Brewers tab Randolph as bench coach — Former Mets skipper was finalist for managerial opening — MILWAUKEE — The Brewers were looking for experience in their bench coach, and they found it in one of their managerial candidates. — Former Mets manager Willie Randolph …
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Anthony McCarron / NY Daily News:
Willie hired as Brewers bench coach — Ex-Met manager Willie Randolph was hired Saturday as the bench coach of the Brewers after last month being one of the final three candidates for the Milwaukee managing job that went to Ken Macha. — The 54-year-old Randolph, who had one of the finest years …
ESPN.com:
Brewers hire Randolph to be Macha's bench coach — MILWAUKEE — The Milwaukee Brewers hired former New York Mets manager Willie Randolph as bench coach on Saturday. — The 54-year Randolph was fired as the Mets manager on June 17. His career record was 302-253 and he led New York to the playoffs in 2006.
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Anthony DiComo / MLB.com:
Former Yanks help lay dirt in Stadium — Crew from '98 teams up with area kids in symbolic ceremony — NEW YORK — Paul O'Neill strode down a flight of concourse stairs at the new Yankee Stadium on Saturday, set his feet on the warning track — a rough, dirt expanse …
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Associated Press:
Yanks bring dirt from old Stadium to their new home — With the help of a few legendary players and Bronx teenagers, the Yankees carried pailfuls of dirt from their home plate and pitchers' mound from their old home to a new one Saturday. — Under a steady rain, 15-year-old Gabriel Nieves shoveled …
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Peter Abraham / The LoHud Yankees Blog:
Bronx students participate in ceremony — This release from the Yankees: — NEW YORK YANKEES AND LOCAL YOUTH GROUPS HOLD DUAL-STADIUM CEREMONY; FORMER YANKEES JOIN BRONX HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN MOVING HOME PLATE FROM ORIGINAL YANKEE STADIUM TO NEW YANKEE STADIUM
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Joe Cowley / Chicago Sun Times:
Sox focus on Cuban 3B Dayan Viciedo — MLB gives green light for teams to make offers to Viciedo — The White Sox are poised to put the Joe Crede era behind them and become players in the first big acquisition of the offseason. — Agent Jaime Torres was informed by Major League Baseball …
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Ed Price / New Jersey Online:
Sabathia, Pettitte waiting to hear from New York Yankees — NOTEBOOK — CC Sabathia and Andy Pettitte have reached out, and now they are waiting on contract offers from the Yankees. — Derek Jeter Friday revealed he had spoken to Sabathia — the Yankees' top target in free agency — in recent weeks about playing in pinstripes.
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Chris De Luca / Chicago Sun Times:
Padres cut Peavy finalists to 3 teams — Cubs, Braves, Dodgers in the hunt — Padres general manager Kevin Towers was back home in San Diego on Friday, sifting through the possibilities that will allow him to trade former Cy Young Award winner Jake Peavy to the Cubs, the Atlanta Braves or …
Alan Schwarz / New York Times:
That Awful Mets Bullpen May Return Intact — Most witnesses of the Mets' bullpen meltdown last season, those who can still see crucial victories squandered night after September night, would probably just as soon not see the names responsible for another missed postseason — Heilman …
Michael Silverman / Boston Herald:
Spaceman missing Manny Ramirez — + Recent Articles + Recent Blog Entries + Email — There really is no justice in a world where Bill “Spaceman” Lee and Manny “Being Manny” Ramirez never got to be Red Sox [team stats] teammates. — Last night, just before he was inducted into the Red Sox Hall of Fame …
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Jenifer Langosch / MLB.com:
Bucs fill out staff with Hill at first base — Veteran big league coach will also serve as infield instructor — PITTSBURGH — The Pirates filled the final vacancy in the Major League coaching staff on Friday, naming Perry Hill as the team's first-base coach for 2009.
Bill Madden / NY Daily News:
Madden: Obama makes White Sox America's team — For over 100 years, the Chicago White Sox have had to live as second-class citizens to the Cubs in the Windy City while, nationally, they had a fan base and recognition factor the equivalent of the Houston Astros or San Diego Padres. — No more.
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