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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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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 …
Jack Curry / New York Times:Cabrera and Willis May Join Tigers in Eight-Player Trade
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Archie Bunker's Army
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 …
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Matthew Cerrone / MetsBlog.com:
Buzz: The Mets, Livan, Freddie and Bartolo — ...as i noted yesterday, there had been more and more buzz coming from Nashville suggesting that the Mets are seriously considering Livan Hernandez... Later in the day, citing 'a source,' MLB.com reported that the Nationals may be willing to give Hernandez a two-year deal.
Mark Hale / New York Post:METS ARE ALL TALK — MEETINGS YIELDING NO AMAZIN' ACTION SO FAR
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MetsBlog.com
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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New York Post, The LoHud Yankees Blog, River Ave. Blues, My Pinstripes, Projo SoxBlog and MLB Trade Rumors
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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 …
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.
Gordon Edes / Boston Globe:Yankees say they're out on Santana bid
Discussion:
Peter's Red Sox Forever
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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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
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Lone Star Ball
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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Brewers Blog, NASHVILLE CONFIDENTIAL, MetsBlog.com, MLB Trade Rumors, Cardinals Diaspora and Newsday
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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.
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 …
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MetsBlog.com
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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
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 …
Thomas Boswell / Washington Post:
Nats Get Their Man in Dukes. So Now What? — For seven months, since Elijah Dukes's reputation hit rock bottom after his infamous "You dead, dawg. . . . Your kids, too" message on his estranged wife's voice mail, the Washington Nationals' front office has been fascinated, almost obsessed …
