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Cafardo covers the Red Sox and Major League Baseball for the Sports section. He writes the Sunday baseball notes and has a Red Sox column. He also contributes to the NESN Red Sox pre-game show and has authored books on the Patriots and Atlanta Braves.
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Preview | Sunday baseball notes
Mattingly gaining respect in adversity
By Nick Cafardo , Globe Staff
Don Mattingly may lose his job as manager of the Dodgers, but he gained respect around baseball for saying you just can’t “throw an All-Star team out there” and expect to win.
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Red Sox should fight to keep Jacoby Ellsbury
By Nick Cafardo , Globe Staff
You won’t find more than a dozen players who have better skills than Ellsbury, who will be a free agent at the end of the season.
Red Sox 6, White Sox 2
Buchholz is dominant in Chicago
By Nick Cafardo , Globe Staff
Clay Buchholz moved to 7-0 after allowing one run over seven innings against the White Sox.
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Juan Nieves’ effect on Red Sox is clear
By Nick Cafardo , Globe Staff
The Red Sox pitching coach is using the philosophy he learned under his ex-White Sox tutor Don Cooper, and the results speak for themselves.