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Brewers offer arbitration to Sabathia, Sheets
Free agents CC Sabathia, Ben Sheets and Brian Shouse were offered salary arbitration Monday by the Brewers, ensuring Milwaukee will receive compensatory picks in next year's amateur draft if they sign elsewhere. Sabathia and Sheets are Type A free...Tags: Baseball, Arbitration, C.C. Sabathia, Trials, Major League Baseball
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Sabathia offered arbitration by Milwaukee Brewers
AP Baseball WriterCC Sabathia, likely to command the largest contract among this year's free-agent pitchers, was offered salary arbitration Monday by the Milwaukee Brewers. Teams had until midnight to make the offers to free agents. If a club offers arbitration to a...Tags: Bobby Abreu, Bars and Clubs, Arbitration, Raul Ibanez, Milwaukee Brewers
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What CC might want
On the Yankees beatBy Benjamin Kabak In the pages of Newsday today, Wallace Matthews posed a question upon which no Yankee fan really wants to dwell: What if CC Sabathia just doesn't want to play in the Bronx for the Yankees? Matthews argues......Tags: California, C.C. Sabathia, A.J. Burnett
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Brewers in no rush to find a closer
How bad was Eric Gagne last season in Milwaukee? So bad that even the loss of the guy who had replaced him as closer, Salomon Torres, was greeted with something resembling indifference by general manager Doug Melvin. While Torres saved a career-high 28...Tags: New York Mets, Trevor Hoffman, Boston Red Sox, Mark Shapiro, Public Employees
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Ken Davidoff's MLB free agency forecast
ken.davidoff@newsday.comTo classify this year's free agents, let's swipe the Mets' terminology for their variable ticket pricing: Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Value. Along with the free agents are their projected destination and salary package. Starting Pitchers...Tags: New York Mets, Pat Burrell, Trevor Hoffman, Boston Red Sox, Joe Crede
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Yankees get Swisher in trade with ChiSox
Of The Associated PressThe New York Yankees started their offseason makeover by acquiring Nick Swisher from the Chicago White Sox on Thursday. Swisher, who can play first base and all three outfield spots, was obtained for pitching prospect Jeff Marquez and infielder Wilson...Tags: Bobby Abreu, Baseball, Jason Giambi, Brian Cashman, Chicago White Sox
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Brenly perfect fit for Brewers' managerial job
The Milwaukee Brewers are hard at work interviewing potential candidates for their managerial vacancy, including popular Cubs WGN-TV color man Bob Brenly. Some believe the job can be Brenly's if he wants it, as he's the only candidate who deals with the...Tags: Seattle Mariners, New York Mets, Public Employees, Joe Crede, American League
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Ex-A's skipper Macha named Brewers' manager
Ken Macha was hired as manager of the Milwaukee Brewers, taking over from Dale Sveum after the team's first postseason appearance since 1982. Macha, 58, who managed the Oakland Athletics to a pair of American League West titles and was fired after the...Tags: Manny Ramirez, Chicago White Sox, New York Mets, Public Employees, Government
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For Today, A Young Man's Business
How do you like me now? I've taken so much ribbing about my new column photo — "psychopath, assassin," and, most vicious of all, "old man" — I decided to put on my Halloween mask a day late. Yes, today I work under my first column mug from...Tags: Manny Ramirez, Wages and Pensions, Wayne Gretzky, Andrew Bynum, National Basketball Association
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Rays Raise Intrigue In AL East Rivalries
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Let's hope some kind of lasting rivalry, a real, ringing rivalry, not one October of cowbell ringing comes out of this American League Championship Series. And not just for the Red Sox, but for the Yankees, too. Each year,...Tags: Theft, Manny Ramirez, New York Mets, Joe Girardi, Willie Mays
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Where do Yankees go?
On the Yankees beatNow that the World Series is over, the hot stove season can officially begin. So what should the Yankees do? Everyone knows their top priority is starting pitching, and ideally they'd land CC Sabathia. There have been all sorts of......Tags: Baseball, Chien-Ming Wang, A.J. Burnett, Major League Baseball, Mike Mussina
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Cubs edge Brewers 5-4
Chicago Tribune reporterKerry Wood knew there were only a few things that could happen Tuesday night when he faced Milwaukee slugger Prince Fielder with a one-run lead in the ninth, the tying run on third and two men out. Fielder already had hit two home runs, including one off...Tags: New York Mets, Carlos Zambrano, National League, Alfonso Soriano, Milwaukee Brewers
Dec 1, 2008
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Dec 1, 2008
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Nov 26, 2008
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Nov 15, 2008
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Nov 13, 2008
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Nov 13, 2008
|Story| Allentown Morning Call
Oct 25, 2008
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Oct 31, 2008
|Column| Baltimore Sun
Nov 1, 2008
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Oct 19, 2008
|Column| Hartford Courant
Oct 31, 2008
|Blog| Newsday
Sep 17, 2008
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