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Jon Heyman / CBSSports.com:
Carlos Gonzalez on trade block following Troy Tulowitzki deal — After their stunning trade of franchise shortstop Troy Tulowitzki, the Rockies are said to be planning to move star outfielder Carlos Gonzalez, as well. — “They expect to move him,” one GM with an interested team said.
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Jeff Todd / MLB Trade Rumors:
Blue Jays To Acquire Troy Tulowitzki In Exchange For Jose Reyes, Jeff Hoffman, Miguel Castro — The Blue Jays have struck a stunning deal to acquire Rockies shortstop Troy Tulowitzki and veteran reliever LaTroy Hawkins in exchange for Jose Reyes and a trio of minor league pitchers …
Patrick Saunders / Denver Post:
Tulowitzki is hitting .300 this season, with 12 home runs and 52 RBIs — The Denver Post — CHICAGO — In the quiet and shocked visitors clubhouse at Wrigley Field Monday, Rockies players watched star shortstop Troy Tulowitzki enter manager Walt Weiss' office for a long meeting.
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Baseball America:
Trade Central: Mets Get Clippard To Help Back Of 'Pen — THE DEAL — The suddenly aggressive Mets made their second trade in four days, acquiring righthanded reliever Tyler Clippard—who was traded to Oakland by Washington last offseason—from the Athletics for righthander Casey Meisner.
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Jeff Todd / MLB Trade Rumors:
Mets Acquire Tyler Clippard — 5:35pm: New York will receive $1MM in the deal, meaning that they'll pay Clippard just over $2MM the rest of the way, Ken Davidoff of the New York Post tweets. — 5:16pm: The Mets have agreed to a deal that will land them reliever Tyler Clippard from the Athletics …
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Steve Adams / MLB Trade Rumors:
Mets Making Progress On Clippard Trade; Other Teams Still In Play
Mets Making Progress On Clippard Trade; Other Teams Still In Play
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Benjamin Morris / FiveThirtyEight:
How Weird Is Alex Rodriguez's Resurgence? — Once-disgraced slugger Alex Rodriguez turned 40 years old Monday, and he's still hitting home run hat tricks. His remarkable return to form (at the moment he's a top-10 hitter despite missing all of last year) has even New York fans who loathed him not long ago mulling his redemption.
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Billy Witz / New York Times:
On His 40th Birthday, Alex Rodriguez Blows It Out With a Swing — ARLINGTON, Tex. — For all the years that Alex Rodriguez was the Yankees' carnival act, a ballplayer who seemed to create as many headlines with his behavior as he did with his bat, who would have figured this?
Dylan Hernandez / Los Angeles Times:
Would Dodgers trade Yasiel Puig? Unlikely, but he can't rule it out — Yasiel Puig has played in only 53 of the Dodgers' 100 games. After spending five weeks on the disabled list because of a strained hamstring, he is batting .253 with six home runs and 22 runs batted in.
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Jeff Todd / MLB Trade Rumors:
Dodgers Willing To Listen On Yasiel Puig
Dodgers Willing To Listen On Yasiel Puig
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Associated Press:
Casali Hits 2 HRs to Help Rays Top Tigers 5-2 — ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Curt Casali homered twice, Nathan Karns took a one-hit shutout into the seventh inning and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Detroit Tigers 5-2 Monday night. — Casali's first homer came on the first pitch of the third inning …
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Steve Schrader / Detroit Free Press:
GM Dombrowski: Tigers not sellers yet
GM Dombrowski: Tigers not sellers yet
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Jon Heyman / CBSSports.com:
Gerardo Parra trade market: Mystery team joins Angels, Mets, Orioles — The Angels, Mets, Orioles and a “mystery team” are said to be in the mix for Brewers outfielder Gerardo Parra, who's raised his trade value with an excellent season in Milwaukee. — Parra is a certain bet …
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Associated Press:
Goldschmidt Homers, Scores Winning Run in Arizona's 4-3 Win — SEATTLE — Paul Goldschmidt hit his 22nd homer of the season in the first inning and scored the go-ahead run in the 10th on Jake Lamb's sacrifice fly as the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Seattle Mariners 4-3 on Monday night.
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Bill Pennington / New York Times:
A Thesis Could Be Written on Haverford College's Influence in Baseball — With a restful duck pond at the main entrance and an arboretum of 1,400 labeled trees and shrubs dwarfing the few ball fields on its campus, Haverford College looks nothing like an athletic powerhouse.
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FiveThirtyEight:
Roundtable: All Of Baseball History Should Get An Asterisk — How the MLB should treat stats from the steroid, amphetamine and segregation eras — It always comes back to the use of performance-enhancing drugs. The “steroid era” may be over, but Major League Baseball is still dealing with its consequences.