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Lincecum beats out Webb, is Giants' second Cy Young winner — NEW YORK — Tim Lincecum is the National League Cy Young Award winner, taking home pitching's highest honor in his second major league season. — The slender kid with the whirling windup on Tuesday joined Mike McCormick (1967) …
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NL Cy Young Award goes to Lincecum — Giants hurler led the league in winning percentage, strikeouts — SAN FRANCISCO — Tim Lincecum has been called “The Freak,” “The Franchise” and “Seabiscuit.” — Now he can be called something else: The National League's Cy Young Award winner.
Jim Molony / MLB.com:
NL Cy Young race anyone's guess — Lincecum, Webb, Dempster favorites among open field — Predicting who will win this year's National League Cy Young Award is like trying to predict where free agent CC Sabathia will pitch next season. — There are plenty of opinions, but until it's all said and done, no one can say for sure.
MLB.com:
Padres withdraw offer to Hoffman — SAN DIEGO — Trevor Hoffman, the Major League career saves leader, could be finished as a member of the San Diego Padres. — General manager Kevin Towers confirmed on Monday that the Padres withdrew their contract offer to Hoffman for 2009.
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CLEVELAND SPORTS — Former Indians broadcaster Herb Score dies at age 75 … Former Cleveland Indians pitcher and broadcaster Herb Score died this morning at age 75 at his home in Rocky River, the Indians confirmed today. — He was a brilliant Indians pitcher whose baseball career …
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Indians pitcher, broadcaster Herb Score dies — CLEVELAND - Herb Score, the Cleveland Indians pitcher and former broadcaster whose promise on the mound was shattered by a line drive, has died. He was 75. — The team said he died at his home Tuesday in Rocky River, Ohio.
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Paul Sullivan / Chicago Tribune:
Pursuit of Peavy could alter Cubs' game plan — Affects Cubs' stance on Dempster, Wood — Ryan Dempster and Kerry Wood were supposed to be the Cubs' priorities going into the off-season, but the unexpected availability of San Diego's Jake Peavy may have altered the game plan.
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Brewers' Torres decides to retire — By Tom Haudricourt of the Journal Sentinel — I just spoke on the telephone with Brewers reliever Salomon Torres and he gave me some surprising news. Torres said he called general manager Doug Melvin today to announce he is retiring from baseball as an active player.
Joe Frisaro / MLB.com:
Marlins finalize deal with Nationals — Florida parts with Willingham, Olsen for Bonifacio, two others — MIAMI — Improving defensively and upgrading their speed are two priorities for the Marlins this offseason. They achieved both in one player, but it came at the expense of two popular regulars.
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Jon Heyman / Sports Illustrated:
Holliday trade shows Hot Stove season is heating up … It isn't true that the most exciting thing to happen last week at the General Manager Meetings at the St. Regis Resort Monarch Bay in Dana Point, Calif. was an overzealous security guard hassling Yankees GM Brian Cashman about whether …
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Batter up! Piazza to write memoir — NEW YORK (AP) — Baseball great Mike Piazza, a home run slugger and 12-time All Star widely regarded as the best hitting catcher in history, is working on a memoir. — “I look forward to having the chance to take people behind the scenes and to talk …
Matt Eddy / Baseball America:
Minor League Transactions — This week's installment considers all transactions reported by MLB between Nov. 1-7. The previous installment is available here. — Minor league free agents are here. — Arizona Diamondbacks — Released: RHP Dustin Glant, RHP Brett Reynolds
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New York Yankees and Cisco to Deliver Cutting-Edge Technology in New Yankee Stadium — Cisco Brings High-Definition Video and Advanced Communications Technology to the New Yankee Stadium, Creating the Ultimate Fan Experience — Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced that the new Yankee Stadium …
Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Officials Question a Blood Test That Is Never Positive — BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Three hours into a conference held Monday by Major League Baseball on human growth hormone, the real question of the day emerged when officials from the commissioner's office and the players union wondered aloud …
