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mlbtraderumors.com - 6/26/2009
Matt Holliday Update
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Scouts tell Joe Stiglich of the San Jose Mercury News that teams' unwillingness to part with prospects and inability to take on salary could make it hard for the A's to deal Matt Holliday . That's fine with GM Billy Beane, who says he doesn't feel pressure to deal his star outfielder this ...
Cards Step Up Pursuit of Matt Holliday
mlb.fanhouse.com - 6/27/2009
Cards Step Up Pursuit of Matt Holliday
— mlb.fanhouse.com — by Pat Lackey With the Cubs imploding and the Brewers still in desperate need of pitching, the... road to a playoff return for the St. Louis Cardinals is looking more and more wide open. The Cardinals see this opportunity themselves. As such, they have begun keeping tabs on A's slugger Matt ... (more) Cards Step Up Pursuit of Matt Holliday

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What’s up Doc? Reds in the Hunt for Holliday
reds.gearupforsports.com - 6/30/2009
What’s up Doc? Reds in the Hunt for Holliday
— reds.gearupforsports.com — While making my daily rounds through the internet this morning, a routine I like to call my... “A Loop” (this consists of the websites CNN.com, Cincinnati.com, WhoDeyRevolution.com, ESPN.com and of course GearUpForSports.com), I stumbled onto Paul “Doc” Daugherty’s ... (more) What’s up Doc? Reds in the Hunt for Holliday

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statspeak.net - 6/22/2009
A Call to Arms
— statspeak.net — If you've been reading StatSpeak for a while now like the rest of the world, you've probably... noticed some turnover in the past year or so. A blog that was at one point written only by Pizza Cutter expanded to include some of the bigger names in sabermetrics, such as Eric Seidman, Colin Wyers, ... (more) A Call to Arms

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Big League Stew:  News & Notes: Will Holliday be the face of a boring trade season?

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News & Notes: Will Holliday be the face of a boring trade season?
Big League Stew — A few items to peruse while singing ma ma se, ma ma sa, ma ma co sa ... • If you've been paying attention to baseball the first few months, you know we're about to be buried in an avalanche of stories on how teams will be unwilling to pick up extra salary or depart with cheap prospects is going to douse the trading wildfire before it even starts. With Jake Peavy on the DL, I expect that Matt Holliday will be the lead in almost every story and we're already seeing evidence that the assumption is a lock. Joe Stiglich writes that both of the above limits are true when it comes to ...

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Athletics Offensive Flops Undermines Pitching Precociousness — Bleacher Report - MLB 6/26/2009
Sure, sometimes statistics can fail to tell the entire story, but the numbers don’t lie when it comes to the surprisingly ineptitude of the Oakland Athletics as we approach the mid-point on the 2009 season. With remarkable consistency, the ...
VIDEO: Rosenthal's AL Hot Corner — FOXSports.com News for MLB 6/26/2009
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