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Ben Shpigel / Bats:
Highlights From Yankees' News Conferences — Highlights of General Manager Brian Cashman and Manager Joe Girardi's news conferences Monday after the Yankees' four-games-to-two loss to the Texas Rangers in the American League Championship Series: — * Saying it was strictly his decision …
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Fox Sports:
Yanks face tough offseason decisions — Mariano Rivera's one of many guys the Yanks have to decide on this offseason. — Bob Klapisch covers baseball for The Record in New Jersey and worked at the New York Post and New York Daily News. The author of five books, he was recently voted …
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Andrew Marchand / ESPN:
Yankees fire Dave Eiland — NEW YORK — In the wake of the disappointing end to New York's season, Yankees general manager Brian Cashman has fired pitching coach Dave Eiland. — “I'm not going into any detail about what the reasons were,” Cashman said on Monday.
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MLB Daily Dish and It's About The Money
Chad Jennings / The LoHud Yankees Blog:
Eiland not being brought back — Brian Cashman just announced that the team is not bringing Dave Eiland back next season. — “It has nothing to do with what took place in the playoffs,” Cashman said. — Cashman said the decision is not based on performance. He labeled the reason as “private.”
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Mark Feinsand / Blogging The Bombers:
Cashman: Eiland will not return
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MLB.com, Surviving Grady, Pinstripe Alley and IT IS HIGH!
Ian O'Connor / ESPN:
Expect Yankees to splash cash on Jeter
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Bronx Baseball Daily and Mike Silva's …
Joe Strauss / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Duncan to return as coach through 2012 — The Cardinals and pitching coach Dave Duncan have agreed upon a two-year contract with a mutual option for 2013. The deal represents a departure from the front office's initial sentiment to award only one-year deals to manager Tony La Russa's coaching staff.
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Dan Rosenheck / Bats:
Keeping Score: How Good Are the Giants' Starters? — The San Francisco Giants have so far proved the old adage that pitching wins in the postseason. Despite finishing ninth in the National League in offense, they squeaked into the tournament on the back of a vaunted starting rotation of Tim Lincecum …
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Henry Schulman / San Francisco Chronicle:
SF Giants a cast of loveable knuckleheads
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Stephen Hawkins / Associated Press:
Rangers preparing to face Giants in World Series
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Marc Topkin / St. Petersburg Times:
Pat Burrell, revived with San Francisco Giants, doesn't want to address time spent with Tampa Bay Rays — Friends and teammates say the Giants' Pat Burrell, who started in leftfield in all 10 playoff games, never was cut out to be a DH. — PHILADELPHIA — Maybe for Pat Burrell this is best …
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Dave Cameron / FanGraphs Baseball:
San Francisco DH Options
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New York Post:
GM finalists best news for Mets fans — Mets on Twitter — Tweet — Lately it's been difficult to define “good news” for the Mets. Mostly, it's meant the absence of bad news, or the minimization of dreadful news. If you are an especially optimistic Mets fan — and, let's face it …
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New York Post:
Yankees need uptight Girardi to lighten up — Tweet — Joe Girardi and the Yankees have no place else to turn, so they will return to each other. — Sometime in the next week, I suspect, Girardi will re-up for something in the neighborhood of three years at $10 million. — What alternative does Girardi have?
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baseballmusings.com, Scratchbomb, HardballTalk, BronxBanterBlog.com, lenNY's Yankees and Chicago Breaking Sports
Sabernomics:
The Myth of the Small-Market Series — Even when the current World Series match-up of Giants versus Rangers was just a possibility, I began to hear chatter to the effect of “Bud Selig and Fox are going to hate having two small-market clubs in the World Series.”
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baseballmusings.com, HardballTalk and 6-4-2
Bill Mitchell / Baseball America:
Laird Returns To AFL — Yankees farmhand adds corner outfield to positions list — PHOENIX—Yankees prospect Brandon Laird followed a strong 2009 Arizona Fall League stint with an MVP season with Double-A Trenton of the Eastern League in 2010. The righthanded hitting corner infielder hit .291/.355/.523 …
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Philly.com:
Amaro says Phils want Werth and can re-sign him — Phillies general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. knew as soon as he sat down for his season-ending news conference where the initial questions were headed. “Shoot, ask whatever Werth questions.” — Amaro said the Phillies want Jayson Werth …
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MLB Rumors and Philly.com
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Sports Illustrated:
The Yankees have a long to do list, with Cliff Lee's name at the top … Yankees GM Brian Cashman called the re-signing of manager Joe Girardi the first order of business of what should be a very busy winter for the extremely disappointed ALCS losers. There's also the obvious hope to bring …
