Top News:
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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Yahoo! Sports, The LoHud Yankees Blog, MLB Rumors, MetsBlog.com, HardballTalk, River Avenue Blues and Fanhouse MLB Blog
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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.”
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 …
Discussion:
Bronx Baseball Daily and Sliding Into Home
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.
Discussion:
MLB Daily Dish and It's About The Money
Mark Feinsand / Blogging The Bombers:
Cashman: Eiland will not return
Discussion:
Pinstripe Alley, Surviving Grady and IT IS HIGH!
Bryan Hoch / MLB.com:
Pitching coach Eiland won't be back
Discussion:
True Blue LA and Britt's Bird Watch
Ian O'Connor / ESPN:
Expect Yankees to splash cash on Jeter
Discussion:
Bronx Baseball Daily and Mike Silva's …
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 …
Discussion:
HardballTalk and baseballmusings.com
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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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ESPN, baseballmusings.com, Only Baseball Matters and FanGraphs Baseball
George Vecsey / New York Times:
With Series in San Francisco, Anything Can Happen — What will it be this time in the gorgeous city shimmering by the bay? Locusts or midges? A misplaced Santa Ana wind? — Or will the last hippie commune come down from the hills and place garlands of flowers on the bats of the Rangers and the Giants?
Discussion:
Yahoo! Sports
Dave Cameron / FanGraphs Baseball:
San Francisco DH Options
Discussion:
Hardball Times, The Platoon Advantage and ESPN
Henry Schulman / San Francisco Chronicle:
SF Giants a cast of loveable knuckleheads
Discussion:
Sports Illustrated, Federal Baseball, The Goessling Game and HardballTalk
Dan Barbarisi / Projo Sox Blog:
John Farrell introduced as manager of Toronto Blue Jays — The Toronto Blue Jays have officially named Red Sox pitching coach John Farrell to be their new manager, robbing Boston of one of its best assets and potentially helping to create another talented team taking aim at Boston, New York and Tampa.
Discussion:
Boston Globe, baseballmusings.com and Bluebird Banter
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Bob Elliott / Toronto Sun:
Black buddies with Jays' skip
Discussion:
MLB Rumors, Globe and Mail and Batter's Box Interactive …
Associated Press:
All eyes on Werth as Phillies close shop — PHILADELPHIA—Jayson Werth stood in the on-deck circle as the Philadelphia Phillies' season ended on Saturday. The question now is what's on deck for the free agent to be. — Speaking at Citizens Bank Park two days after the San Francisco Giants eliminated …
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Yahoo! Sports, ESPN and Boston Globe
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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?
Matthew Cerrone / MetsBlog.com:
Ryan Howard, A-Rod and Carlos Beltran — The Phillies and Yankees were each eliminated from the post season this past weekend, each game ending with a called strike-three looking, bats on shoulders, and breaking balls breaking. … ~ Mike Vaccaro, New York Post
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New York Post:
GM finalists best news for Mets fans
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Metstradamus Blog and Amazin' Avenue
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.”
Discussion:
HardballTalk, baseballmusings.com 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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Scranton/Wilkes-Barre … and HardballTalk
