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Baseball Today: Tuesday, July 22
Published 7/22/2008 by Art Martone (amartone@projo.com) at Projo Sox Blog
... as Blue Jays manager in 2009 (National Post) . . . Frank Thomas is taking batting practice again as he recovers from a severe quad strain (San Francisco Chronicle) . . . Alfonso Soriano is playing rehab games ...

Odds and Ends: Murphy, Vizquel, Roberts
Published 7/22/2008 by Tim Dierkes at MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com
Today's collection of links and rumors. I'll be doing the weekly live chat here at 2pm CST.  Right after that I'll be on New Jersey's Fox Sports Radio 1260AM. White Sox GM Kenny Williams talked about difficult it is to find an impact starter on the trade market. River Ave. Blues thinks the Yankees should pursue ...

A’s Roster Moves: Donnie Murphy DFA’ed, Brooks Conrad up
Published 7/22/2008 by Graham Goldbeck (noreply@blogger.com) at Oaktown Awesomer's: An Oakland A's Blog
The A's finally designated a player for assignment yesterday. Unfortunately it was not this blog's favorite DFA target Emil Brown, but A's utility player Donnie Murphy. Murphy has shown some potential in the past, hitting .326/.385/.509 in AAA last year in 175 AB. Most of that was driven though by an obscenely high .422 BABIP, and he was due for some serious regression at any level. He would get it at the major leagues, where he hit .188/.278/.307 this year in 115 PA. While not a large sample of PA, a sub .600 OPS is just terrible, even for a utility infielder. Since he didn't bring anything spectacular on defense he was DFA'ed ...