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Baseball plans to cut down on off days during the postseason next year. Commissioner Bud Selig said Wednesday he's working on tightening up the 2010 playoff schedule so there will be fewer gaps between games. Los Angeles Angels manager Mike Scioscia criticized the current format after the Yankees and Angels played only eight times in 20 days going into Game 6 of the AL championship series.  

He has been named the Rangers Player of the Year for the fourth time in his career. • His wife Cristina gave birth to their second child, Emilio. • He is fully recovered from a strained left hamstring injury and has resumed his normal offseason conditioning program. •  

Tuesday. At least in that case the writer identified himself as the culprit. Which BBWAA member left Jim Tracy off the MOY ballot?  

The Rangers' 40-man roster has only 35 players on it at the moment, but that's about to change, as one window is about to shut and another is on the verge of opening. The deadline to add non-roster players to the 40 is tomorrow, and the surest bet for Texas is 23-year-old lefthander Michael Kirkman, who went 9-8, 3.48 between Bakersfield and Frisco this year, finishing strong. For what it's worth, in the Bound Edition (which is a few weeks from coming off the presses) my prediction for roster protection  

of the Year Wednesday after leading the resurgent Colorado Rockies to the playoffs. Tracy took over the Rockies on May 29 when Clint Hurdle was fired. The team was 18-28 and went 74-42 over the final 116 games of the regular season before losing to the Philadelphia Phillies in the first round of the playoffs..  

Top managers named...Help for the Nats...Quinn sorry for block. NEW YORK (AP) Jim Tracy of Colorado is a first-time winner of the NL Manager of the Year award. He took over the job when Clint Hurdle was fired in May and led the team to a Wild Card spot in the post season.  

The official count of ballots from the Nov. 3 general election has been completed and did not result in changes in the outcomes of any races. The candidates for Marietta City Council's 1st and 2nd Ward seats were separated by 19 and 10 votes respectively. There were 19 and 10 provisional ballots, which had not been counted on Election Night, in each ward, meaning there was at least a mathematical chance of a tie vote.  

Clint Hurdle, the new Texas Rangers hitting coach, and The Dallas Morning News blogger Evan Grant are chatting with readers hitting. Join the chat , and get the latest updates on our Rangers blog .  

Turning a 101 loss team into a winning baseball club wasn't enough to get Seattle Mariners rookie manager Don Wakamatsu the American League Manager of the Year award. Scioscia kept the Angels going after the death of pitcher Nick Adenhart. Scioscia got 15 of the 28 first-place votes.