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Alden Gonzalez / ESPN:
Brad Ausmus out after 1 season with Los Angeles Angels — The Los Angeles Angels have fired Brad Ausmus after only one season as their manager, increasing rampant speculation that Joe Maddon could soon replace him. — The decision was formalized on Monday, one day after the team concluded …
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Bob Nightengale / USA Today:
As stint with Cubs comes to an end, Joe Maddon has no regrets: 'It's been fabulous' — ST. LOUIS — It wasn't a deeply emotional press conference Sunday, rather more of a celebration. Chicago Cubs president Theo Epstein thanked manager Joe Maddon for the past five years, but made it clear change was drastically needed.
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NBCSports.com, MLB Trade Rumors, FanSided, Bleed Cubbie Blue and WGN-TV
Bill Shaikin / Los Angeles Times:
Angels fire manager Brad Ausmus; Joe Maddon expresses interest in job — The Angels fired Brad Ausmus as their manager Monday, the day after the team completed its worst season in 20 years. — The move came one day after the Chicago Cubs parted ways with Joe Maddon, the manager who led …
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MLB Baseball News …, Lone Star Ball and Halos Heaven
Jesse Rogers / ESPN:
Cubs, Maddon parting ways after 5 big seasons
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MLB Baseball News …, MLB Daily Dish, Beyond the Box Score and baseballmusings.com
Mark Townsend / Yahoo! Sports:
Cubs and manager Joe Maddon part ways after five seasons
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Bleed Cubbie Blue, MLB Daily Dish and Lone Star Ball
Jordan Bastian / Cubs News:
Maddon, Cubs part ways after five seasons
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MLB Baseball News … and UPI
Eric Fisher / SportBusiness:
MLB ends '19 regular season at 16-year attendance low — Major League Baseball ended its 2019 regular season with a total attendance of 68.49 million, down 1.7 percent from a year ago and the league's sixth decline at the gate in the last seven seasons. — The total is league's lowest since 2003 …
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Ian Harrison / MLB Baseball News, Scores …:
Rising sons give rebuilding Blue Jays reason for optimism — Toronto Blue Jays feel good about four rising sons who made big strides in 2019 and figure to become lineup fixtures moving forward. — The pitching, however, remains a work in progress. — The Blue Jays went 67-95, six games worse than last year.
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Beyond the Box Score and Yahoo! Sports
Rick Hummel / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Post-Dispatch's Goold helps save man's life at Busch Stadium — Before he chronicled the Cardinals' first division title clinching since 2015, Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derrick Goold helped save a man's life Sunday at Busch Stadium. — St. Louis-based videographer Mike Flanary, 64 …
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MLB Baseball News …, UPI, MLB Trade Rumors and New York Post
Anthony Fenech / Detroit Free Press:
Switching them up: Detroit Tigers coaches returning, but in different roles — All but one member of the Detroit Tigers' coaching staff will return for the 2020 season. — The lone departure is bench coach Steve Liddle, who is retiring. — Liddle, 60, has been a fixture on manager Ron Gardenhire's staff with the Tigers and Twins.
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MLB Trade Rumors
Steve Adams / MLB Trade Rumors:
Orioles Notes: Anderson, Mancini, Hays — Brady Anderson, who formerly served as the Orioles' vice president of baseball operations, is “stepping aside” and leaving the organization, MASNsports.com's Roch Kubatko reports (via Twitter). Anderson, Gary Rajsich and Brian Graham were entrusted …
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Baltimore Sun, MLB Baseball News … and Camden Chat
ESPN:
Red Sox president: Keeping Mookie Betts, J.D. Martinez ‘difficult,’ but there is a way — Boston Red Sox president Sam Kennedy said Monday there is a way for the team to keep stars Mookie Betts and J.D. Martinez and stay below Major League Baseball's competitive balance tax, but it will be tough.
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Bill Baer / MLB Baseball News, Scores …:
Strengths and weaknesses for all 10 playoff teams — As the calendar turns to October, postseason baseball will begin. The playoffs will begin on Tuesday with the Nationals hosting the Brewers for the NL Wild Card game. That will be followed by the AL Wild Card game between the Rays and Athletics in Oakland on Wednesday.
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Brew Crew Ball
Rick Hummel / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
EARLY HOMERS GIVE CARDS BIG CUSHION — Dexter Fowler, one for his past 26, set a career high Sunday with his 19th homer, a 430-foot blast to center field, in the second inning at Busch Stadium. — That gave the Cardinals a four-run edge over the Chicago Cubs and the Cardinals continued to pile on.
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Bleed Cubbie Blue, Over the Monster, Viva El Birdos and MLB Baseball News …
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Derrick Goold / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Cardinals notebook: Wong, still sore, not sure when he'll return
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Viva El Birdos, MLB Baseball News … and MLB Trade Rumors
John Romano / Tampa Bay Times:
In the diary of a season, here are five moments that mattered for Rays — A pair of reinforcements helped Tampa Bay overcome injuries and a wobbly bullpen to go 36-18 down the stretch and return to the postseason. — Published Earlier today — TORONTO - The Rays completed …
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The Crawfish Boxes
Janie McCauley / scores.nbcsportsbayarea.com:
Bochy loses to Dodgers 9-0 in final game as Giants manager — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Bruce Bochy spoke to a ballpark filled with thousands of lives he touched in some way and thanked them all straight from the heart, no notes necessary. — Bochy bid an emotional farewell following 2 1/2 decades …
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MLB Baseball News …, NBCSports.com, True Blue LA, McCovey Chronicles and CBS San Francisco
