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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, JSOnline, Britt's Bird Watch, NESN.com and HardballTalk
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 and mlbbuzz
Rob Biertempfel / PittsburghLIVE.com:
Pirates bide time on manager search
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Fanhouse MLB Blog, HardballTalk and Where Have You Gone …
Rob Bradford / Full Count:
There's a fourth finalist for the Blue Jays' job: Brian Butterfield
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Boston Globe, MLB Daily Dish, Over the Monster, The House That Dewey Built and HardballTalk
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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Hardball Times, Yahoo! Sports and TSN.ca
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Tyler Kepner / New York Times:
Two Cities Chasing That Elusive First Championship
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Athletics Nation, Yahoo! Sports and SULLY BASEBALL
Mark Townsend / Yahoo! Sports:
Mike Krukow generalizes both Philly and San Francisco fans
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Yahoo! Sports and Blogging Baseball
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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Talking Chop and HardballTalk
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Luke Adams / MLB Rumors:
Multiple Japanese Teams Interested In Kawakami — A Japanese team has shown a “strong interest” in acquiring Kenshin Kawakami from the Braves, according to MLB.com's Mark Bowman. Bowman writes that a Japanese reporter indicated that the Yomiuri Giants and Nippon Ham Fighters are interested in Kawakami.
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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The LoHud Yankees Blog and Pinstripe Alley
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Marc Narducci / Philly.com:
Rangers exec thinks Phillies are role-model franchise
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MLB Rumors
Ben Nicholson-Smith / MLB Rumors:
Tigers, Inge Agree To Two-Year Extension — The longest tenured Tiger is staying in Detroit. The Tigers announced that they signed Brandon Inge to a two-year extension with a club option for 2013. Inge's deal is worth $11.5MM, according to MLB.com's Jason Beck (on Twitter).
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MLB Daily Dish and FanGraphs Baseball
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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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HardballTalk
Todd Zolecki / MLB.com:
Doc delivers as Phils stay alive, force Game 6 — Halladay tosses six solid innings to send NLCS back to Philly — SAN FRANCISCO — Somehow, Phillies ace Roy Halladay helped return the National League Championship Series to Philadelphia. — Somehow he did it.
Adam McCalvy / MLB.com:
Melvin, Brewers zero in on next manager — GM to conduct second round of interviews with four candidates — SAN FRANCISCO — Brewers general manager Doug Melvin told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Thursday that he had interviewed eight managerial candidates and was poised …
Darren Rovell / Sports Biz with Darren Rovell:
Rally Monkey Creator Selling Angels World Series Ring — One of the most famous recent gimmicks in sports has been Rally Monkey, which first appeared on the scoreboard at an Angels game more than 10 years ago. The Rally Monkey achieved prominence during the Angels run to the 2002 World Series title …
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HardballTalk and Deadspin
Erik Boland / Newsday:
Teixeira blames Stadium warning track for Berkman's fall — ARLINGTON, Texas - The kind of tumble Lance Berkman took in foul ground during Game 5 shouldn't happen again, the man he replaced at first base said. “That warning track around our stadium is very dangerous,” Mark Teixeira said Thursday of the synthetic surface.
