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Posted on: Thursday, December 10, 2009

Yanks swing deal for Granderson


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The winter meetings in Indianapolis heated up even more yesterday, with Milwaukee landing pitchers Randy Wolf and LaTroy Hawkins, Baltimore acquiring Kevin Millwood in a trade with Texas, and the Yankees completing a three-team, seven-player swap that brought them All-Star center fielder Curtis Granderson.

New York also re-signed postseason star Andy Pettitte, and Houston reeled in hard-throwing reliever Matt Lindstrom from the Florida Marlins on the next-to-last-day of the four-day annual session.

"We are making some adjustments and it's a business decision," Detroit Tigers general manager Dave Dombrowski said after dealing Granderson to the Yankees and All-Star pitcher Edwin Jackson to the Diamondbacks.

Detroit obtained lefty reliever Phil Coke and outfield prospect Austin Jackson from the Yankees, plus pitchers Max Scherzer and Daniel Schlereth from Arizona. The Diamondbacks also got right-hander Ian Kennedy from New York.

Baltimore will receive about $3 million from Texas along with Millwood, while the cash-strapped Rangers get a player to be named. The money offsets part of the former All-Star's $12 million salary.

Pettitte got an $11.75 million, one-year contract, up from a $5.5 million base with $5 million in earned bonuses last season.

BOXING

DALLAS OUT AS SITE FOR PACQUIAO FIGHT

Promoters of the Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather Jr. fight abruptly canceled a trip to Dallas yesterday, possibly dealing a fatal blow to the chances of Jerry Jones landing the bout for Cowboys Stadium.

The trip was canceled at the last minute because Mayweather's promoter apparently decided he didn't want the fight at the new stadium. The move leaves the MGM Grand hotel arena in Las Vegas as the heavy favorite to host the March 13 fight.

Co-promoter Bob Arum — who got the news at his 78th birthday party Tuesday night — was upset by the trip being canceled because Jones had rearranged his schedule so he could give the promoters a tour of the $1.2 billion stadium and present a proposal to host the bout.

"I'm just embarrassed, really embarrassed," Arum told The Associated Press. "The man (Jones) changed his whole schedule for this and you certainly want to listen to the man."

Arum said he was blindsided by Mayweather's promoter, Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer, who was to join him in Dallas. He said Schaefer called him and told him he wasn't going to go to Dallas because he didn't want the fight there.

BOWLING

TWO-HANDER SETS PBA SCORING MARK

Cassidy Schaub rolled consecutive 300 games and set a Professional Bowlers Association 16-game scoring record last night, averaging 257.25 to retain the second-round lead in the Pepsi Red, White and Blue Open at Wichita, Kan.

Schaub, a two-hander from Ashland, Ohio, had a 16-game total of 4,116 pins at Northrock Lanes to beat the PBA record of 4,095 set by John Mazza in Las Vegas in 1996. Schaub has a 70-pin lead over Michael Machuga of Erie, Pa.

"To throw that many strikes in one day is a pretty good feeling," Schaub said. "I honestly thought I'd never top yesterday — and score-wise I didn't — but throwing my first PBA 300 and backing it up with another is a feeling I can't describe."