Jon Heyman>DAILY SCOOP  —  More ColumnsEmail JonFollow Jon Heyman on  —  Halladay talk likely to top winter meetings bill; more notes (cont.)  —  Around the majors  —  • The Red Sox remain interested in Marco Scutaro at shortstop.  Scutaro told his hometown Venezuelan paper Diario Panorama …

Braves Sign Billy Wagner  —  11:36am: The Braves officially announced the Wagner signing, tweets MLB.com's Mark Bowman.  That implies he passed his physical.  —  1:28am: The Braves have agreed to sign Billy Wagner, according to Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports.

Source: Phils pursue Polanco  —  The Philadelphia Phillies are targeting Placido Polanco as their next third baseman, according to a source familiar with their thinking.  And they were making a “very serious” effort to sign the 34-year-old free agent Wednesday, the source told ESPN.com.

3UP: Burrell, Molina and Halladay  —  1. I hear that a trade of Tampa Bay's Pat Burrell for the Cubs' Milton Bradley is still a strong possibility.  Burrell is due $9 million next year while Bradley has two years at $21 million left.  Bradley also makes $9 million next year …

Wolf “open” to staying in LA  —  I thought I would pass along this link to a Los Angeles Times interview with left-hander Randy Wolf in which he says he'd be open to staying in LA despite the Dodgers not offering the Class A free agent salary arbitration by the deadline Tuesday night.

Jeter: ‘Everybody makes mistakes’  —  Yankees' captain admits he's far from perfect in interview  —  NEW YORK — Derek Jeter may seem like he has mastered how to maneuver in the bright lights of the big city, but the Yankees' shortstop is ready to admit that even he slips up from time to time.

Arizona Fall League Top 10 Prospects  —  Scouting reports on the top 10 prospects from the Arizona Fall League, plus a look at whose prospect stock rose and whose stock fell in the league.

Tiger comments on current events  —  I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart.  I have not been true to my values and the behavior my family deserves.  I am not without faults and I am far short of perfect.  I am dealing with my behavior and personal failings behind closed doors with my family.

Inbox: Ranking Mets teams of yesteryear  —  Beat reporter Marty Noble answers fans' questions  —  In what order would you rank the Mets teams of 1969, '73, '86, '88 and 2000?  And why?  —  The 1986 Mets and '88 Mets are not one in the same, but they are close.

I Have A Complaint  —  For most of USSM's existence, we served as the voice of why everything the Mariners were doing was wrong.  Not that we wanted to, but the organization made so many bad decisions that we wrote millions of words explaining why they just screwed up.

Early Rule 5 Draft Preview  —  Some names to keep an eye as the Dec. 7 Rule 5 draft nears.

Ignorant Need Not Apply: The Mind of the Manager Must Evolve  —  As baseball trends and talent evaluation skew towards traditional first person scouting coupled with statistical analysis, major league managers are expected to keep up with new ways of putting together a team and assessing their roster.

Mets' Delgado doesn't get offer, but could return  —  The Mets, as expected, did not offer salary arbitration to any of their free agents, including Carlos Delgado and Fernando Tatis, at yesterday's deadline.  —  In the cases of Delgado and Tatis, both Tupe B free agents …