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The Toronto Blue Jays traded Shannon Stewart to the Twins during the 2003 season. Now they’re looking into bringing him back to town.
Stewart is reportedly close to signing a minor-league contract with the Blue Jays in order to compete for the left field job. The Blue Jays are expected to use a platoon […]

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UPDATE (2-23-08; 3:50 PM): DeRosa’s trip to the hospital is said to be for precautionary reasons only and he’s doing fine.
“Mark is doing fine,” manager Lou Piniella said. “He came in with a rapid heartbeat from doing things on the field and (was) having a little trouble breathing. So they called in the medical […]

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Brandon Inge was held out of one of the club’s most demanding drills of the spring so far, Andy Van Slyke’s sprint drill for fly balls, on Friday. His absence from the drill seems to suggest that trade talks involving Inge are heating up and the team didn’t want to risk injury to the displaced […]

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Dusty Baker’s year off seems to have gotten him over his fetish for old guys. With the way he’s talking right now, it seems like Joey Votto will get every chance to replace Scott Hatteberg at first base for the Reds.
“What’s Hatteberg? Thirty-eight?” Baker said. “Votto’s the future here. I talked to Hatteberg about […]

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Last year, Al Reyes seemed to come out of nowhere to perform admirably in the closer’s role for the Rays. This year, he’s taking a step back. Upon the signing of Troy Percival, Reyes lost his grip on the job and will now be one of Percival’s chief setup men. Reyes, however, […]

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