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NL East News and Rumors

Ron Darling, Gary Cohen and Keith Hernandez will play major roles on SNY's expanded NY Mets pregame

nydailynews.com

Those viewers wanting more of Keith Hernandez , Ron Darling and Gary Cohen will have their wish fulfilled this season. Well-embedded moles say SportsNet New York will be adding a new “pre” pregame studio show prominently featuring the three crooners.…

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In its first two baseball incarnations, as “Old Fox” Clark Griffith’s “on the shoestring” Senators from the ’20s to the ’50s, and then as their incompetently-run expansion successors from 1961-71, Washington was said to be “first in war, f…

Bill Ladson, MLB.com

Manager Davey Johnson was in Africa when he received a text message from general manager Mike Rizzo earlier this week that the Nationals had signed closer Rafael Soriano to a two-year, $28 million contract.

Joe Frisaro, MLB.com

More infield depth with big league experience could be joining the Marlins in Spring Training. Miami is close to signing Matt Downs to a Minor League contract with an invitation to big league camp.

Paul Casella, MLB.com

The Mets swapped 2013 salary proposals with first baseman Ike Davis and second baseman Daniel Murphy, the club's lone remaining arbitration-eligible players, ahead of Friday's deadline to do so.