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Odds and Ends: Manny, McDonald, Bradford, Bowden

By Tim Dierkes [August 8, 2008 at 9:31am CST]

Collection o' links...

Craig Monroe has cleared waivers and become a free agent.
ESPN's Jerry Crasnick talks to Pirates GM Neal Huntington about his deadline deals.
Pirates players Chris Duffy and Franquelis Osoria cleared waivers and will head to Triple A.
Blue Jays GM J.P. Ricciardi says manager Cito Gaston will be back next year.
Yesterday Dan Shaughnessy wrote a few sentences about the commissioner's office investigating Manny Ramirez's final hours with the Red Sox. It's become a national story. More on the situation from the L.A. Times.
Sean McAdam wonders if the Red Sox could acquire Toronto shortstop John McDonald. He'd have to get past ten other AL teams first.
In regards to the Chad Bradford deal, Andy MacPhail said, "I can use the dough." MacPhail said the Orioles will receive a prospect, to be determined in the offseason.
Jack Etkin of the Rocky Mountain News believes Rockies reliever Kip Wells is expendable.
Tracy Ringolsby heard speculation that Nationals VP of baseball operations Mike Rizzo could replace GM Jim Bowden.

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The Rizzo-Bowden rumor looks more and more like it's substantiated, condidering Rizzo has been delivering some of the Nationals' press releases. There has been some concern as to whether or not he's personable enough to handle the public eye that being a GM gets. Only time will tell, I guess, but he's got a great track record from Arizona.

Posted by: thehoagster07 | August 08, 2008 at 09:53 AM

Breaking News!
Kip Wells is expendable.

wow.

jk Tim, I love the site, just had make a crack there. I hate that guy

Posted by: bucs_lose_again | August 08, 2008 at 12:52 PM

Only in Pittsburgh can you be designated for assignment and get a promotion at the same time!

Posted by: melmann | August 08, 2008 at 02:37 PM

Call me crazy, but this doesn't sound to me like the Manny case is closed:

"There were some follow-up calls," Courtney said. "It's closed. It's not ongoing."

Courtney later said his comments were premature and deferred further questions on the matter to Rich Levin, another baseball spokesman. Levin said this afternoon he had no comment.

Posted by: MUNGHERO | August 08, 2008 at 03:43 PM

It's funny that we're taking MacPhail's funny candid comment od "dough" as some kind of admission of who the PTBNL might be. We must be desperate for news.

Posted by: basemonkey | August 08, 2008 at 04:28 PM

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