Welcome back to another edition of Sunday Links and Coffee, a series of links to stories from around the baseball world to enjoy with your Sunday coffee. We start in Clearwater:

• Andy Martino in the Inquirer has a lengthy piece on Cole Hamels that covers a lot of ground…from his new role as a father, the World Series, 2010, statistics, and more. Good read.
• Paul Hagen in the Daily News on 47-year old Jamie Moyer trying to win the 5th starter’s job after a shaky season last year.
• From Friday, Andy Martino on the start of the Halladay/Hamels era.
• Scott Lauber in the Delaware News-Journal on former BlueClaw Freddy Galvis, who flashed some leather yesterday in Bradenton. Said Asst. GM Chuck LaMar: “He has such good feet and such good hands. Not an outstanding arm — Jimmy Rollins has an outstanding arm — but he plays the hitter so well and has such good instincts in the middle infield. He’s one of those young guys that can make an acrobatic play.”
• Good note in the last article on Galvis: he was just the 11th teenager in the 43 years of baseball in Reading.

And from around baseball:

• Mike Lupica in the NY Daily News on Jose Reyes, his thyroid problem, and the Mets.
• Bill Madden, also in the NY Daily News, on Bobby Cox beginning his final season as Braves manager…Cox at one time was a manager in the Yankee system:“When I was at Syracuse, George would call me all the time,” Cox related. “We had to phone in our reports after every game and George listened to all of them. He’d call me and start screaming, ‘What the hell is wrong with (Terry) Whitfield (a top Yankee outfield prospect at the time)? Why isn’t he hitting?’

  “Another year, they wanted me to make a second baseman out of our top prospect Otto Velez, even though he was an outfielder. Yeah, I had my share of confrontations with George. Who knows what would’ve happened if I hadn’t gotten hired by the Braves after ‘77? It just wasn’t meant to be.”

• Interesting article from ESPN.com’s Jerry Crasnick: a series of umpire errors during the post-season forced a shake-up of umpire supervisors for this season.

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