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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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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.
Baltimore Sun:
O's, Cubs talk Roberts deal — Source: Discussed deal would bring starting pitcher to Orioles; MacPhail reportedly inquires about free agent 2B Iguchi — For the second consecutive winter meetings, the Orioles are involved in serious trade talks involving second baseman Brian Roberts.
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.
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Tim Brown / Yahoo! Sports:
Santana talks with Red Sox heat up again — NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Boston Red Sox reaffirmed their status as the favorites to acquire Johan Santana as the team's top executives Wednesday evening warmed to the idea of trading for the Minnesota Twins ace mere hours after questioning the merits of the deal …
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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 …
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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Projo SoxBlog, Boston Globe, Red Sox Monster, Boston Sports Media Watch, Oriole Post, SOX & Dawgs and The Baseball Desert
Tim Dierkes / MLB Trade Rumors:
Santana/Reyes/Haren Blockbuster Quashed — UPDATE, 12-5-07 at 5:45pm: Billy Beane, who rarely comments on trade rumors, actually went out of his way to call mine below a "total fabrication." I guess I should be proud, right? It sounds like I was the victim of an elaborate hoax/impersonated sportswriter.
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Inside The Winter Meetings:
3-way deal a "total fabrication" — OK before it goes any further, let us kill a rumor that went from gestation at somebody's computer to rampant chatter in the hallways at the Winter Meetings. — The rumor was a three-way trade with many participants, but that essentially came down to Dan Haren …
Mark Hale / New York Post:METS ARE ALL TALK — MEETINGS YIELDING NO AMAZIN' ACTION SO FAR
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The Zo Zone, Phillies/baseball, MetsBlog.com, Hot Foot, Hot Stove New York, MLB Trade Rumors and MLB.com
Baseball Prospectus:
Winter Meetings, Day Three — 3:30 p.m. ET: A Minnesota official said Wednesday that he is "99 percent sure" that left-hander Johan Santana will still be a Twin when the meetings end Thursday. The Twins still figure to deal Santana sometime before spring training, though it now seems …
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Dejan Kovacevic / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:Winter Meetings: Pirates, Indians discuss five-player deal involving Bay
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MLB.com, MLB Trade Rumors, Pittsburgh Lumber Co., Honest Wagner and BBTF's Baseball Primer …
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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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 …
David O'Brien / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Ten weeks until the four magic words.... Almost all of the Braves' moves have already been made, and we still have 10 weeks left until we head toward Dark Star and the most splendid four-word phrase: Pitchers and catchers report. — Ten weeks to pick apart, praise, criticize, bitch, moan and project.
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.
