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9:30 AM ET, December 5, 2007

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ESPN:
Tigers send top prospects to Marlins for Cabrera, Willis  —  The Florida Marlins and Detroit Tigers have agreed in principle on a trade that will send Miguel Cabrera and Dontrelle Willis to Detroit for key prospects, sources told ESPN's Peter Gammons.  —  The Tigers would send outfielder Cameron Maybin …
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Jayson Stark / ESPN:
Stark: A tale of two franchises in big deal
Jack Curry / New York Times:
Cabrera and Willis May Join Tigers in Eight-Player Trade
Discussion: Archie Bunker's Army
Joe Capozzi / Palm Beach Post:   Willis, Cabrera gone: Blockbuster trade will save Marlins $20 million
Dejan Kovacevic / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Winter Meetings: Pirates, Indians discuss five-player deal involving Bay  —  NASHVILLE, Tenn. — That Jason Bay deal, all of a sudden, is alive.  —  In a surprising twist, the Pirates and Cleveland Indians revived talks at the Opryland Hotel late last night and developed a framework for a five-player trade …
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Baltimore Sun:
O's want more for Bedard  —  Trade offers falling short …
Discussion: Mariners Blog and MLB Trade Rumors
Anthony Castrovince / MLB.com:
Notes: Indians won't make panic moves
Discussion: MLB Trade Rumors
Curt Schilling / 38 Pitches:
Want to know what a player thinks about trades like this?  —  As fans you have your perspective.  There are large contingents of fans in both markets, NY and Boston, that lean towards the Bill James approach to players and their teams, and probably an equal amount of 'old schoolers' that believe …
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Amalie Benjamin / Boston Globe:
For now, prospects are murky  —  NASHVILLE - Justin Masterson has been married barely a month - since Nov. 3 - and already his life might be up in the air.  That's because, like Jon Lester and Coco Crisp and Jacoby Ellsbury, Jed Lowrie and Michael Bowden and Ryan Kalish …
NY Daily News:
Brian Cashman, Yanks balk at millions and Phil Hughes for Johan Santana  —  NASHVILLE - Even though George Steinbrenner is no longer the one to say it, Brian Cashman had better be right about Phil Hughes.  —  The Yankee GM, who is staking his job on his young-gun pitchers …
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Tyler Kepner / New York Times:
Santana Deal Dead, Say Yankees  —  The Yankees' pursuit of Johan Santana is over, according to Hank Steinbrenner, the team's senior vice president, after the Yankees and the Minnesota Twins failed to agree on a deal Tuesday.  —  "The deadline is the deadline," Steinbrenner said in a telephone interview.
Kat O'Brien / Newsday:
Yankees drop out of running for Santana trade
T.R. Sullivan / MLB.com:
Rangers talk with Twins about Santana  —  Right now, team not considered a serious trade contender  —  NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Rangers met with the Minnesota Twins on Tuesday at the Winter Meetings, and one of the subjects brought up was pitcher Johan Santana.
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Hank Blalock / Dallas Morning News:
Texas Rangers shouldn't ship Blalock, Laird
Discussion: Lone Star Ball
T.R. Sullivan / MLB.com:
A wintry mix of first-base options
Discussion: MLB Trade Rumors
Ken Rosenthal / Fox Sports:
Cards turn to Dodgers in Rolen talks  —  FOXSports.com, Updated 17 minutes ago  —  LIKE THIS STORY?  —  The Dodgers are now the team in hottest pursuit of Cardinals third baseman Scott Rolen, according to major-league sources.  —  The Brewers had been the front-runner …
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John Shea / San Francisco Chronicle:
Winter Meetings: Cain for Alex Rios?  How 'interesting'  —  (12-04) 19:51 PST Nashville — Would the Giants trade Matt Cain for Alex Rios?  —  Late Tuesday, it was learned that the "interesting" proposal Brian Sabean had mentioned on Monday involved Rios, the Blue Jays outfielder.
Joe Lapointe / New York Times:
Mets Remain Interested in Liván Hernández  —  Omar Minaya, the Mets' general manager, said Tuesday that he planned to speak with the representative of Liván Hernández, a free-agent pitcher who played last season for Arizona.  —  Asked whether he had spoken with Greg Genske …
Discussion: MetsBlog.com and Mets Fever
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Adam Rubin / NY Daily News:
Mets might pursue Livan Hernandez, Bartolo Colon
Steve Gilbert / MLB.com:
D-backs in talks for two right-handers
Discussion: AZ Snakepit and MLB Trade Rumors
Gordon Wittenmyer / Chicago Sun Times:
Price of Fukudome keeps going higher  —  NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Cubs made one minor trade and continued to shop Mark Prior on Tuesday, but it was what other teams did that might have a greater impact on the team's offseason plans.  —  When the Kansas City Royals signed Jose Guillen …
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Corey Brock / MLB.com:
Padres focused on finding outfielder
Discussion: MLB Trade Rumors
Alyson Footer / MLB.com:
Scott buzz growing at Meetings
Dylan Hernandez / Los Angeles Times:
No deals, but Colletti is happy to be asked  —  With his young players in demand, he feels that much better about keeping them.  —  NASHVILLE — The Dodgers didn't get Miguel Cabrera and they don't expect to land Johan Santana.  —  But General Manager Ned Colletti said that his inability …
Discussion: MetsBlog.com
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Tim Brown / Yahoo! Sports:   Dodgers GM can't pull trigger on Cabrera deal
Joe Strauss / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Trade of Rolen is unlikely  —  NASHVILLE, TENN. — Scott Rolen went nowhere Tuesday.  —  And, according to Cardinals general manager John Mozeliak, the team's Gold Glove third baseman is unlikely to go anywhere before Major League Baseball's winter meetings adjourn Thursday.  —  Mozeliak didn't stop there.
Discussion: MLB Trade Rumors
Marc Lancaster / TBO.com:
Top Pick Price Eager To Start Making Way Up  —  NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Rays remain rigidly noncommittal when asked when LHP David Price might break into the majors, with Manager Joe Maddon throwing out the possibility that it might occur in 2008 and executive Andrew Friedman unwilling to go that far.
Discussion: MLB Trade Rumors
Jack O'Connell / MLB.com:
Nuxhall leads list of Frick finalists  —  Former Reds announcer among 10 candidates for award  —  Baseball fans let their feelings be known about Joe Nuxhall, the legendary Cincinnati Reds broadcaster who died last month, by placing him on the Ford C. Frick Award ballot with an overwhelming online vote total.
Discussion: FIRE JOE MORGAN
 
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