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Buster Olney / ESPN:
Yankees make offer to Sabathia, have Burnett and Lowe on radar … As expected Friday, the New York Yankees officially tendered an offer to free-agent pitcher CC Sabathia. — The offer is expected to be six years in length and have a total value of slightly more than the record $137.5 million deal …
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Yankees make big offer to CC — Hal Steinbrenner confirms interest in Sabathia, Burnett, Lowe — NEW YORK — The Yankees made a record-breaking six-year, $140 million offer to free-agent starter CC Sabathia on Friday as the first part of their plan to overhaul their starting rotation …
Ed Price / New Jersey Online:
New York Yankees make offer to Sabathia — The Yankees made a contract offer to lefty ace CC Sabathia Friday, according to a person with knowledge of the team's plans, that would make Sabathia the highest-paid pitcher ever. — The offer exceeds the six-year, $137.5 million deal the Mets …
Peter Abraham / The LoHud Yankees Blog:
Lots of cake for the big lefty — Here is the message the Yankees are sending the rest of baseball: — Don't. Even. Try. — The Yankees have offered CC Sabathia a six-year deal worth $140 million. The record for a pitcher is six years and $137.5 million for Johan Santana.
ESPN:
Yankees can have whatever they want — When a superstar like Jennifer Lopez wants to shop in a jewelry store, they'll sometimes close down the place, so J-Lo can have her choice of all the baubles in the place, unfettered, unbothered, a market of one. — And as baseball's free agent period begins, think of the Yankees as J-Lo.
Chicagosports / Hardball:
Wood: Leaving Cubs is ‘bittersweet’ — Kerry Wood called his departure from the Cubs “bittersweet” on Friday, but said he'd been preparing for the possibility of leaving through the 2008 season and wasn't surprised by general manager Jim Hendry's decision to go in another direction.
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Adam McCalvy / MLB.com:
Brewers in ‘wait-and-see’ mode with CC — Yankees reportedly offer lefty biggest contract ever for pitcher — MILWAUKEE — If the rumors are indeed fact, the Brewers have fallen way back in the CC Sabathia derby. — Multiple news outlets were reporting Friday evening that the Yankees …
MLB.com:
Mets name Luis Alicea first base coach — FLUSHING — Manager Jerry Manuel completed the New York Mets' coaching staff today by naming Luis Alicea the team's first base coach. — For the last two years, Alicea was the first base coach for the Boston Red Sox.
John Nadel / Associated Press:
Dodgers will charge up to $90 for exhibition games — LOS ANGELES — Forget Dodger Blue. This is Dodger Green - as in $90 for a spring training ticket. — That's what the Dodgers will charge for 692 top seats at their new spring home in Glendale, Ariz. Last year, their highest-priced exhibition ticket was $20 at Vero Beach, Fla.
Buster Olney / ESPN:
Closer Hoffman miffed by treatment from Padres … The last time that Trevor Hoffman was a free agent, there were some doubts among executives with other teams whether he would ever seriously consider leaving the Padres — a team he'd played with for more than a decade.
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Braves no longer actively pursuing Peavy — Braves general manager Frank Wren said Friday that he is no longer having active negotiations with Padres general manager Kevin Towers about Jake Peavy. This might not completely rule out the possibility of Peavy joining the Braves in the future.
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Barry M. Bloom / MLB.com:
MLB could send stars to Olympics — Baseball officials assure IOC of efforts if sport is reinstated — Baseball officials gave members of the International Olympic Committee assurances on Friday that an effort will be made to send some of the game's best professional players if it is reinstated …
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