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Sources: Mets make push for Barajas — Ken Rosenthal has been the senior baseball writer for FOXSports.com since Aug. 2005. He appears weekly on MLB on FOX. — The Mets are making “a hard push” for free-agent catcher Rod Barajas and negotiating with him on a one-year deal, according to major-league sources.
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Alex Speier / Full Count:
Epstein: Matsuzaka should have ‘normal spring training’ — FORT MYERS, Fla. — Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein said that right-hander Daisuke Matsuzaka felt some discomfort in his mid-upper back while playing catch on Friday, which the team subsequently determined to be a “really mild strain.”
Alex Speier / Full Count:Papelbon looks to start a new streak
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Bill Ladson / MLB.com:
Wang agrees to deal with Nationals — Right-hander will be coming back from shoulder surgery — The Nationals have agreed to terms with right-hander Chien-Ming Wang, a baseball source has confirmed to MLB.com. The terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
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Ben Nicholson-Smith / MLB Rumors:Nationals To Sign Chien-Ming Wang
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SJK / NoMaas.org:
The Mother of All Interviews: NoMaas v. Brian Cashman — Turn your speakers up. … SJK: Since you were given full authority over baseball decisions after the 2005 season, how do you believe the organization has changed — whether it be fiscally, philosophically, or in methodology?
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Mark Bowman / Bowman's Blog:
Jurrjens relieved after receiving MRI results — Count Jair Jurrjens among the many members of the Braves family who gained a sense of relief on Wednesday morning, when MRI results showed that he isn't dealing with any structural damage in his right shoulder.
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Mark Bowman / MLB.com:
Jurrjens encouraged by MRI results — Soreness in right shoulder not caused by structural damage — ATLANTA — Jair Jurrjens gained a sense of relief on Wednesday morning when Braves doctors informed him that the discomfort he has recently felt in his right shoulder is a product of inflammation and tightness.
Fox Sports:
Sources: White Sox still in Damon hunt — Ken Rosenthal has been the senior baseball writer for FOXSports.com since Aug. 2005. He appears weekly on MLB on FOX. — Johnny Damon to the White Sox? The idea certainly is not dead. The question is how alive it might be.
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Corey Brock / MLB.com:
Inbox: Where should Padres hit Eckstein? — Beat reporter Corey Brock answers fans' questions — Will David Eckstein be slotted in the No. 2 hole in the lineup or would he be better suited at the end of the lineup so that we can have more speed at the top of the lineup?
Chris Morris / News & Advance:
Former Major League pitcher Jim Bibby dies at 65 — Jim Bibby, a longtime Madison Heights resident and former Major League Baseball player, died Tuesday night at Lynchburg General Hospital. He was 65. — Bibby died around 9 p.m., said Jimmy Wright, a close family friend.
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Bob Nightengale / USA Today:
Catcher Joe Mauer will test staying power with Twins — MINNEAPOLIS — The sun is a rumor at 5:30 in the morning. The temperature is a bone-chilling 5 degrees, with a wind chill south of zero. Lungs sting just trying to catch a breath. — And a line of humanity, bundled from head to toe …
Rob Bradford / WEEI:
LOWELL BRACES HIMSELF FOR AN UNCERTAIN SPRING — FORT MYERS, Fla. — Mike Lowell isn't blind to what awaits. — He knows that his current lot in life promises to be one of spring training's most talked-about issues. The third baseman also realizes why such interest might run rampant …
Ken Gurnick / MLB.com:
Gagne looking for a return to Dodger Blue — Scouts have watched club's all-time greatest closer throw — LOS ANGELES — Eric Gagne wants to be a Dodger again. — General manager Ned Colletti said that his scouts have seen Gagne throw but that the club has not made an offer or decided whether it would.
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Bob Kimball / USA Today:
Bringing Negro Leagues into the digital age — Baseball fans who love statistics - now there's a redundancy - are about to get a jolt of satisfaction courtesy of two historians. — Chicago limousine dispatcher Scott Simkus, 39, and North Carolina book editor Gary Ashwill,42 …
NY Daily News:
The new Yankee Stadium is built, but where are the promised ballfields for kids? — One of the big questions Yankees manager Joe Girardi must decide before the end of spring training in Tampa Bay is whether Curtis Granderson or Brett Gardner will be the team's new centerfielder on Opening Day.
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John Romano / St. Petersburg Times:
Give Tampa Bay Rays a shot, and Bud Selig gets a stadium — ST. PETERSBURG — Welcome to Tropicana Field, Mr. Commissioner. — Hope you didn't have any trouble finding the place. I know it's kind of out in the boondocks. And I'm sure that explains why you have been forced — regrettably …
