Carl Pavano News

The World Series may still be fresh in your mind, but MLB GMs are already focusing on next season.

Pitchers Carl Pavano and J.J. Putz were the lone players to file for free agency on Saturday, bringing to date 120 players who have filed since the World Series came to a conclusion.

The offseason can now be deemed "officially" under way. Thanks to the Yankees clinching their 27th World Series title on Wednesday night, players eligible for free agency could begin filing their paperwork on Thursday.

They've now played two games of the 2009 edition of the World Series -- or, as Ring Lardner used to call it, the World Serious -- and I think we can say that we've already learned a few interesting things from the opening contests.

Sort of an easy one, no? He makes his World Series debut with 583 career homers.

Teams always talk this way, always talk about wanting to step on necks, wanting to kick teams when they're down, wanting to close series out at the first opportunity.Mostly these turn out to be emptier oaths than Steve Phillips' wedding vows.

Time: 7:07 p.m. ET TV: TBS Radio: WCBS 880 AM Pitching matchup: LHP Andy Pettitte vs.

That's not the way many Yankees fans would choose describe Carl Pavano. But that's how Twins manager Ron Gardenhire did before Game 2 at Yankee Stadium.

On what was already Black Sunday in New England, the New York Yankees rubbed it in a bit more, advancing to the American League Championship Series last night by virtue of a 4-1 win over the Minnesota Twins, sweeping the Division Series in the final major league game at the Metrodome.

Carl Pavano called those four injury-riddled, tension-filled seasons with the Yankees a "black period" in his career.

Crazy Yankee Chick : Well, well, well. Carl F%#&ing Pavano. We meet again. Sunday, Oct.

For the Yankees, it wasn't so much a victory as an exorcism. A chance to finally get past what had become their October road block, the American League Division Series , and move to within striking distance of a return to the World Series .

Tonight's spotlight will glare into Carl Pavano's eyes as he tries to stave off elimination for the Twins against the team that openly questioned his toughness in four injury-plagued seasons in New York.

Carl Pavano , standing by his locker in the Minnesota Twins clubhouse swarming with news reporters, broke into a wide smile and laughed.

Twins manager Ron Gardenhire took the "TBA" off the rest of the Division Series.

Twins pitching coach Rick Anderson said Wednesday that Carl Pavano will start Game 3 of the American League Division Series against the Yankees.

Another week, another team meeting. But rather than gathering in the clubhouse to receive an inspirational message from manager Eric Wedge, the Indians' players were brought together Wednesday to hear the news that Wedge and the entire coaching staff will be relieved of their duties at season's end.

Magglio Ordonez hit a three-run double and the Detroit Tigers beat the Minnesota Twins 7-2 on Wednesday night to move closer to the AL Central title.

With the crack of the bat, the crowd rose as one and began to roar. There was no doubt that Magglio Ordonez's shot into the left-center gap was going to fall, and in the process bring down the Minnesota Twins.

Published: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 at 5:19 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 at 5:19 a.m. SCOREBOARD Wednesday, Sept.