Boston Red Sox - Earning his keep - The Boston Globe

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Night and Day
Published 11/7/2007 by Paul SF at YFSF
... More good news from Orlando this morning. Nick Cafardo reports the Yankees do not believe they have a shot at signing Mike Lowell:Yankees manager Joe Girardi and general manager Brian Cashman both commented yesterday that they will have to make a deal for a third baseman to replace Alex Rodriguez, the insinuation being that they expect Lowell, the top third baseman on the market after A-Rod, to stay put. ... Sources familiar with the Lowell negotiations indicate that the popular third baseman - who officially filed for free agency yesterday - would ...

Arriba, Uribe!
Published 11/7/2007 by Jeff Kallman at The MLB Source
... THE LOWELL-DOWN—The proverbial tea leaves read more favourably for Mike Lowell staying in Boston, says the Boston Globe: the paper believes Theo Epstein is pleased enough with progress in talks with the third baseman and World Series MVP . . . and the word from the Yankees—that they might have to trade to replace a certain third baseman, who has yet to rebuke his agent’s opt-out announcement during Game Four—suggests that even the Empire Emeritus expects Lowell to stay right where he is. ...