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The American League East just got even tougher

As if the American League East wasn't tough enough, with the Yankees competing with the Orioles, Rays, and even for a time the Red Sox last year, now they have to contend with the Blue Jays as well. The Blue Jays pulled off a trade last night, which is still not official, that sent Josh Johnson, Mark ...

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The Red Sox signed David Ross

The Yankees were rumored to be interested in catcher David Ross as a possible replacement for Russell Martin, but the Red Sox have signed him to a two-year, $6.2 million deal, according to Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports. Ross, who will be 36 by Opening Day, has never been a starting catcher, but has proven to ...

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Marlins hire Tino Martinez to be their new hitting coach

Reports this morning were that the Boston Red Sox were looking to hire Tino Martinez as their hitting coach, but it turns out that the Marlins have hired him instead, according to Chad Jennings of the Journal News. This works for Yankees fans. Now we don't have to sit through the pain of watching Tino in ...

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Congrats to the 2012 World Champion San Francisco Giants

The San Francisco Giants finished off their sweep of the Detroit Tigers Sunday night to win the 2012 World Series, their second in three years. The one thing that I will say about the Giants is that they have fooled me. I thought they were the worst team going into the playoffs in 2010 and they ...

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Rumor: Roger Clemens will pitch for the Astros on Sept. 12

The Rocket, Roger Clemens will make his second start for the Sugar Land Skeeters on September 7th with scouts from the Houston Astros on hand to watch and there is a growing belief that if everything goes right that he will make his next start for the Astros on September 12th, according to Danny Knobler ...

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Clemens has no plans to pitch again but that could change

Roger Clemens pitched for the Sugar Land Skeeters in the Atlantic League last Saturday and it went well. He gave up just one hit over 3.1 innings and topped out at 88 mph. Not bad for a guy who hasn't pitched since 2007. Does this mean we might expect a Rocket re-launch anytime soon? Probably not, ...

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Red Sox agree to ship Beckett, Crawford, and A-Gon to the Dodgers

The Red Sox and Dodgers have agreed upon a mega deal that will send Josh Beckett, Adrian Gonzalez, and Carl Crawford to the Dodgers as part of a nine-player deal and are waiting for approval from Beckett and Crawford to make it official, according to Jon Heyman of CBS Sports. Aside from Crawford, A-Gon, and Beckett, ...

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Clemens coming out of retirement to pitch for the Sugar Land Skeeters

Roger Clemens it out of court and back on the baseball field. Two months after he was found not guilty to six couts of perjury, making false statements and obstruction of Congress for denying that he took steroids, Clemens is set to join the Sugar Land Skeeters, according to Mark Berman of My Fox Houston. "He's in such great ...

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Melky tried to cover up PED use with fake website

A funny and kind of sad story in the Daily News this morning. Apparently in an attempt to avoid a 50 game suspension for testing positive for performance enhancing drugs, Melky Cabrera tried to create a fake website to prove that he inadvertantly tested positive. Here's an excerpt from their story: The scheme began unfolding in July ...

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Yankee Stadium will be among the first to test MLB’s new replay system

Major League Baseball is set to test two different replay systems starting next week and Yankee Stadium is among the first two stadiums that will give it a try, according to Jeff Passan of Yahoo Sports. The system will only be tested out and will not actually be in use. MLB just wants to see how ...

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