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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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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 …
Sports Illustrated:
Mets back in Santana race — Twins talk to others while negotiating with Red Sox — NASHVILLE, Tenn — With the Red Sox still trying to match names with the Twins, other teams — including the Mets — are trying to jump into the Johan Santana sweepstakes, SI.com has learned.
Matthew Cerrone / MetsBlog.com:
Buzz: Twins Reach out to Mets and Others — ...on monday night i wrote that the word from Nashville, from a few different corners, suggested that the Twins are once again contacting teams, other than the Yankees and Red Sox, to discuss offers for Johan Santana...
Gordon Edes / Boston Globe:Yankees say they're out on Santana bid
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Peter's Red Sox Forever
Ken Davidoff / Newsday:
Tigers-Marlins pull off blockbuster trade — NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Baseball's winter meetings often produce a great amount of smoke and little fire. But the Tigers and Marlins yesterday pulled off a trade that blew away everyone in the industry. — The Marlins, in yet another round of cost-cutting …
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Mark Hale / New York Post:
METS ARE ALL TALK — MEETINGS YIELDING NO AMAZIN' ACTION SO FAR — For the Mets, things haven't exactly been too noisy at the Winter Meetings. — On Day 2, they were more focused on having conversations with agents. It was a day less about trades and more about free-agent possibilities.
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Adam Rubin / NY Daily News:
Mets might pursue Livan Hernandez, Bartolo Colon — NASHVILLE - The Mets don't expect to come away from the winter meetings with Erik Bedard or Dan Haren, although team officials have not resigned themselves to striking out in those pursuits just yet. — According to a Mets insider …
Sports Illustrated:
Obstacles to Bedard trade — Clubs line up to bid on Baltimore's stud left-hander — NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Teams are starting to salivate over the prospect of trading for Orioles ace Erik Bedard, who has wisely refused to sign Baltimore's three-year offer to remain with baseball's messiest organization.
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Dylan Hernandez / Los Angeles Times:No deals, but Colletti is happy to be asked
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Ken Rosenthal / Fox Sports:
Winter Meetings: The latest from Day 3 — FOXSports.com, Updated 52 minutes ago — LIKE THIS STORY? — NASHVILLE - The proposed trade of outfielder Alex Rios for either San Francisco's Matt Cain or Tim Lincecum rests with the Giants' decision-makers, according to major-league sources.
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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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Dejan Kovacevic / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:Pirates' Bay deal appears off; Yankees looking at Marte
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Hot Foot
Nick Cafardo / Boston Globe:
Schilling rule? — NASHVILLE - The Baseball Writers' Association of America voted this morning to approve a resolution in which, starting in 2013, all contracts that have financial terms attached to major awards will not be eligible for consideration for that award.
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Baseball Musings
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Tom Haudricourt / Brewers Blog:
Riske signs three-year, $13 million deal — Nashville - I know some folks were beginning to question whether the Brewers' deal with free agent reliever David Riske actually was going to happen but it became official this morning when the sides agreed to a three-year deal that guarantees him $13 million.
Evan Grant / Dallas Morning News:
Texas Rangers' Blalock not on block for current offers — GM Daniels says clubs want third baseman on the cheap — egrant@dallasnews.com — NASHVILLE, Tenn. - For a guy who missed more than three months last year because of a serious circulatory issue, Hank Blalock sure is popular.
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MLB Trade Rumors
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T.R. Sullivan / MLB.com:Rangers talk with Twins about Santana
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Craig / FishStripes:
Trading Cabrera and Willis — It's not a done deal yet, but more on that later. — If you are one of those who didn't like the deal, that's understandable, there wasn't that much to like. The Marlins traded the faces of the franchise, the biggest box office draws, the last remain players …
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ESPN:
Sources: HGH suspension in works for Jose Guillen — The Major League Baseball Players Association is negotiating with MLB officials on a possible 10- to 15-day suspension for outfielder Jose Guillen for his reported involvement in the purchase of steroids and human growth hormone …
Tom Krasovic / San Diego Union-Tribune:
Padres to pull in outfield — NASHVILLE, Tenn. - As the Padres put final touches on a three-year, $52 million extension to ace Jake Peavy, they revisited the evolving market for free-agent outfielders Mike Cameron, Kosuke Fukudome, Geoff Jenkins and Milton Bradley; and for trade targets …
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