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With Mike Lowell apparently headed back to the Red Sox, Yankees general manager Brian Cashman will have to pursue a trade to replace Alex Rodriguez at third base. ( AP Photo ) BY KEN DAVIDOFF | ken.davidoff@newsday.com November 8, 2007 ORLANDO, Fla. - Mike Lowell's return to the Red Sox appears inevitable, and Yankees general manager Brian Cashman is resigned to the fact that Alex Rodriguez's ...
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Lowell Should Return To the Red Sox
SOX & Dawgs — Sometimes you have to go behind enemy lines to find the stories and this is one we want to hear. Yankees general manager Brian Cashman thinks that Mike Lowell’s return to the Red Sox “is inevitable” and has decided to go other ways in replacing ARod at third base. “We’re hopeful,” Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein said yesterday at the general managers’ meetings. “We’ve had discussions since the end of Game 4. Hopefully those discussions have moved the ball forward ...

Musical 3Bs - Alex Rodgriuez, Miguel Cabera, Miguel Tejeda & Mike Lowell
FakeTeams — ... As for the Mike Lowell option, Kevin Davidoff of Newsdayreports the Yankees have resigned themselves to addressing their open 3B job via the trade market because World Series MVP Mike Lowell appears determined to remain with the Red Sox.  Yankees' GM Brian Cashman says, "I personally believe the player's preference would be to stay in Boston.  I believe that's probably accurate." ...

Ed Wade, GM of Questionable decisions Nighty Cap
Sportsfrog.com — ... • He won't go home again. Mike Lowell, a former Yankee farmhand, return to the Red Sox appears inevitable, and Yankees general manager Brian Cashman is resigned to the fact that Alex Rodriguez's replacement will have to come via the trade market. ...

Hot Stove Update
Center Field — ... , "He'd get four years on the open market. No question." But the word on the GMs' street also apparently is that Lowell will most likely return to the Red Sox: the Yankees manager Joe Girardi and GM Brian Cashman both have reportedly thrown in the towel on the possibility of bringing Lowell to New York. ...

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