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NY Daily News:
Lupica: It's time for Alex to be Great — They are the Yankees, defending champions of the sport, best team money can buy, most expensive pitching staff ever assembled. They are Mo Rivera, the greatest money player of them all, and Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez and Robinson Cano …
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Mike Sielski / Wall Street Journal:
Same Old Ghost Story — Alex Rodriguez Returns to His Lackluster Form in October — ARLINGTON, Texas—The way Alex Rodriguez was staring at that computer screen, waiting for a clue to reveal itself, a CSI team should have been standing behind him. — He was hunched in front of a laptop …
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Andrew Marchand / ESPN:
Nick Swisher sick of Cliff Lee questions
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Fox Sports:
Don't even try to predict NLCS outcome — Phillies Roy Halladay and Jayson Werth with Ken Rosenthal after Game 5. — Ken Rosenthal has been the senior baseball writer for FOXSports.com since Aug. 2005. He appears weekly on MLB on FOX. Follow him on Twitter. — SAN FRANCISCO
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Associated Press:
SAN FRANCISCO — One rough inning from Tim Lincecum proved to be just enough to prevent the San Francisco Giants from holding a pennant-clinching party on the shores of McCovey Cove. — Now the Giants need to take a cross-country flight and win in Philadelphia if they want to go to the World Series …
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Baseball Prospectus, Yahoo! Sports and TSN.ca
Robert Macleod / Globe and Mail:
Jays won't confirm that Farrell is new manager — TORONTO— From Friday's Globe and Mail — Boston Red Sox pitching coach John Farrell will be the next manager of the Toronto Blue Jays, baseball analyst Peter Gammons reported Thursday night, but sources with the Blue Jays say the report is premature.
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Luke Adams / MLB Rumors:
Manager Roundup: Blue Jays, Brewers, Pirates — A few managerial openings have been filled since baseball's regular season ended, but there are still a handful of clubs looking for skippers. Here's the latest on some of the searches, with any new updates added to the top of the page throughout the evening:
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MetsBlog.com, Britt's Bird Watch, JSOnline, NESN.com and Bucs Dugout
Richard Griffin / Toronto Star:
Jays manager search: 3 GMs say John Farrell is the guy — It is the opinion of three major-league GMs that Red Sox pitching coach John Farrell will be named as Blue Jays manager replacing Cito Gaston, according to MLB Network analyst Peter Gammons. None of those GMs was Alex Anthopoulos who ultimately will make the call.
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MLB Rumors, mlbbuzz and Full Count
Sports Illustrated:
October's heroes: Twenty-five who have stepped up in the playoffs … Several players have enhanced their reps this October, though none more so than the top two guys on this list — the unheralded Cody Ross and the much-heralded Cliff Lee. Ross has done what no one expected …
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Bowman's Blog:
Odds and ends: Freeman and Kawakami updates — Now that everyone in the baseball world knows Cody Ross, it's time to reminisce about the day that Chuck James didn't. — Ross homered off James in the second inning of a July 25, 2006 game at Turner Field. Two innings later …
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Peter Botte / NY Daily News:
Sandy Alderson tours Citi Field, remains favorite to fill Mets GM slot over other five candidates — The first round is finally over in the Mets' GM search. — Sandy Alderson remains a leading candidate after completing the second half of his interview with executives Jeff Wilpon and John Ricco Thursday.
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HardballTalk
Marc Topkin / St. Petersburg Times:
Texas Rangers manager says he wanted to face Tampa Bay Rays in ALDS — Texas Rangers manager Ron Washington admitted in an ESPN.com interview with Howard Bryant that the Rangers were hoping the Tampa Bay Rays would win the AL East because they wanted to face them first in the playoffs.
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John Erardi / USA Today:
Pete Rose on making Hall of Fame: 'Don't wait till I'm dead' — The 4,192 documentary about Cincinnati icon Pete Rose premieres Friday at the Esquire Theatre in Clifton, Ohio and will be there as long as customers keep coming out. The full title is 4,192: The Crowning of the Hit King …
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Patrick Flood:
Sandy Alderson For GM — You know how newspapers will sometimes endorse a candidate for mayor or governor? Well that's what I'm going to do here for the Mets next general manager. I'm going to endorse a candidate. Do I have all the information to make the decision? Nope. But then again, who does ...
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Amazin' Avenue, The 'Ropolitans and MetsBlog.com
Sabernomics:
More Evidence for the Three-Man Rotation — Effects of varying recovery periods on muscle enzymes, soreness, and performance in baseball pitchers, by Potteiger, Blessing, and Wilson, Journal of Athletic Training, 1992; 27(1): 27-31. — From the Abstract
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Sabernomics:
Inge's Extension — Brandon Inge and the Detroit Tigers have agreed to an extension that will guarantee the third baseman $11.5 million over the next two seasons. The contract includes a club option for a third year at $6 million, with a $500,000 buyout. — Over the term of his contract …
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Ben Nicholson-Smith / MLB Rumors:
Tigers, Inge Agree To Two-Year Extension
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