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Posted on Mon, Nov. 09, 2009 10:38 PM
Baseball GMs come to Chicago for brief meeting
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Baseball’s general managers came to Chicago to swap stories and perhaps players, and to start discussions with agents.
Increasing the use of video replay among umpires could be a topic when the formal meetings start today, especially after a series of missed calls in the postseason. Video reviews, which began in 2008, are limited to determining whether potential home runs are fair or foul or whether the ball cleared a fence.
“I have been on record as using as much technology as possible for the betterment or our game and to protect the umpires, too,” Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said Monday.
Cashman is comfortable commissioner Bud Selig will protect the game and “make sure that whatever gets implemented is done in the proper way, and if it gets done slowly over time and we’re better for it, so be it.”
More deals are expected around the winter meetings, which will be played Dec. 7-10 in Indianapolis.
“Surprisingly there have been more conversations throughout the playoffs and the World Series than I can remember,” White Sox general manager Ken Williams said last week after his team acquired third baseman Mark Teahen in a trade with the Royals. “And to be able to do something prior to the general managers’ meeting and have substantial talks on major things prior to that is surprising but certainly welcome to me.”
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•Mark Cuban, the high-profile owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, said Monday that he would consider adding the Dodgers to his portfolio.
•Mark Cuban, the high-profile owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, said Monday that he would consider adding the Dodgers to his portfolio.
•Boston exercised its $7.7 million option on catcher Victor Martinez and declined options on Jason Varitek and Alex Gonzalez — though Varitek can exercise a $3 million player option. Boston also agreed to a $5 million, two-year contract with 43-year-old Tim Wakefield.
| The Associated Press
Posted on Mon, Nov. 09, 2009 10:38 PM
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