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Mitch Perry Report for 10.12.16 – Is there still no crying in baseball?

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It’s painful today for me, folks. I stayed up past midnight this morning to see the Chicago Cubs come from behind with four runs in the top of the ninth inning to defeat the San Francisco Giants, 6-5, and advance to the National League Championship Series this weekend, where they’ll play either Washington D.C. or Los Angeles. When I was a kid in the 1970’s, baseball was my favorite sport, just like it was America’s. But over the course of…

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Carlos Beltran, Jonathan Lucroy, Jay Bruce among 18 traded by deadline

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Jonathan Lucroy got a deal he liked, Carlos Beltran joined him in Texas and Jay Bruce and Rich Hill also moved Monday during an 18-swap frenzy at the trade deadline. Matt Moore, Francisco Liriano and Joe Smith found new homes, too, as playoff contenders stocked up for the stretch. “That’s what we play for. Those are the moments we want to be in,” Moore said after NL West-leading San Francisco got the lefty from last-place Tampa Bay. “For someone to…

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Indians acquire all-star and Gainesville native Andrew Miller

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The Cleveland Indians made a cannonball splash in Saturday’s trade market by acquiring all-star reliever Andrew Miller from the Yankees. The Gainesville, Fla. native and his 97 mph fastball now makes the Indians the clear favorite to capture the American League’s Central Division title. Less than a week after shipping Aroldis Chapman and his 100 mph heater to the Cubs, New York officially gave up on the 2016 season. Cleveland, on the other hand, is betting their future with the…

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MLB studying raise of strike zone’s bottom

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Baseball’s strike zone could be getting a slight lift. Major League Baseball is studying whether to raise the bottom of the strike zone from the hollow beneath the kneecap back to the top of the kneecap. “I’m not in a position to predict whether it’s going to happen or not,” Rob Manfred said during an interview with The Associated Press on Monday on his anniversary as baseball commissioner. “I think that the interest in the topic is really driven by…

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