Top News:
Fox Sports:
LIVE: Follow Day 3 of winter meetings — It's Day 3 of the winter meetings. Who's going where? Follow along as our team of Ken Rosenthal, Jon Paul Morosi and Tracy Ringolsby break the latest news from Indy. Note: all times ET. — Wednesday's latest news and notes
RELATED:
Jeff Zrebiec / Baltimore Sun:
O's close to deal for Millwood — Sources: Team nearing agreement to acquire starter from Rangers for Ray, cash — The Orioles are nearing an agreement on a trade that would send reliever Chris Ray to the Texas Rangers for veteran starter Kevin Millwood and some cash, according to multiple team sources.
Matthew Pouliot / Circling The Bases:
Source: Harden to join Rangers on one-year, $7.5 million deal — Update 2: Craig has confirmed that the deal is with the Rangers. One year, $7.5 million with the option for 2011. — Update: Craig's source is hearing one-year, $7.5 million with an $11.5 million option for 2011. Possibly with the Mariners.
Discussion:
FanGraphs Baseball, U.S.S. Mariner, NESN.com, MLB Daily Dish, My Pinstripes, Texas Rangers and MLB Rumors
Toronto Sun:
Angels make a play for Halladay — INDIANAPOLIS - Alex Anthopoulos has spoke all week about having multiple balls in the air. — Now there is an offer on the table for Blue Jays right-hander Roy Halladay at the winter meetings. — The Angels took the lead amongst interested teams in the hunt for Halladay by offering:
Discussion:
MLB, MLB.com, Circling The Bases, Bluebird Banter, MetsBlog.com, MLB Rumors, 6-4-2 and Halos Heaven
ESPN:
Sources: Texas Rangers close to a deal with Rich Harden — The Texas Rangers are closing in on a deal with right-handed pitcher Rich Harden, sources told ESPN The Magazine's Buster Olney on Wednesday. — To create financial flexibility that could make signing Harden easier …
Evan Grant / Texas Rangers:If Millwood is gone, would Rangers play Harden fast?
Discussion:
Boston Globe
Mike DiGiovanna / Los Angeles Times:Angels now might include Erick Aybar in a trade
Discussion:
Full Count, MLB.com, The Bottom Line, Mariners Insider, MetsBlog.com, MLB Rumors and Circling The Bases
New York Post:
Yankees re-sign Pettitte to one-year deal — The Yankees have re-signed Andy Pettitte for one-year at $11.75 million, the Post has learned. — The two sides quickly hammered out an agreement once Pettitte signaled he did want to play again in 2010 — and only for the Yankees.
RELATED:
Associated Press:MLB winter meetings: New York Yankees agree to deal with Andy Pettitte
Discussion:
The Good Phight, Yankeeist, Heartland Pinstripes, Generation Third, Boston Herald, ESPN and USA Today
John Tomase / Clubhouse Insider:
Sources: Red Sox interest in Beltre significant — According to multiple baseball and industry sources, the Red Sox' interest in free agent third baseman Adrian Beltre is believed to be signficant, with his age (31 in April), premium defense and bat fitting neatly into their stated needs …
RELATED:
Joe Capozzi / Florida Marlins news, analysis …:
It's official: Florida Marlins send Matt Lindstrom to Astros for 3 minor leaguers — UPDATE: Marlins baseball ops prez Larry Beinfest said it's done — Matt Lindstrom to Houston for two single-A players and a player to be named. Florida gets RHP Robert Bono and SS Luis Bryan.
RELATED:
ESPN:
Sources: Marlins deal Lindstrom — The Astros have reached a deal to acquire Matt Lindstrom from the Marlins. He is flying to Houston for a physical, sources told ESPN's Peter Gammons. — The right-handed reliever, who is eligible for arbitration, went 2-1 with a 5.89 ERA this past season …
NY Daily News:
Mike Pelfrey's in question, Mets need to hunt for No. 2 pitcher like Angels' John Lackey — INDIANAPOLIS - It was no surprise that one of the first significant rumors to sweep through the hotel lobby at the winter meetings Monday had the Mets on the verge of completing a trade for the Tigers' Edwin Jackson.
RELATED:
Dylan Hernandez / LA Times Sports Blog:
Dodgers: Colletti has no regrets about Wolf — Dodgers General Manager Ned Colletti said today that he had no regrets about not offering arbitration to Randy Wolf, who has agreed to a three-year deal with the Milwaukee Brewers. — Wolf was a Type A free agent, meaning that had the Dodgers offered …
RELATED:
Anthony DiComo / MLB.com:
Megadeal boasts formidable talent — Granderson tops list of budding stars involved in blockbuster — INDIANAPOLIS — High in the downtown Marriott's tower on Tuesday evening, Yankees general manager Brian Cashman had a keen sense of what he referred to as “noise.”
RELATED:
Dylan Hernandez / Los Angeles Times:Dodgers still short on starting pitching
Discussion:
True Blue LA
Jonathan Mayo / MLB.com:
Rule 5 could uncover hidden gems — Teams hope to land underrated talent in Thursday's Draft — INDIANAPOLIS — There were 21 players taken in the Major League phase of last year's Rule 5 Draft. Of those, six saw time in the big leagues during the 2009 season.
Dejan Kovacevic / PBC Blog:
Crosby terms: $1 million, $500K bonus — INDIANAPOLIS — The Pirates' signing of free-agent shortstop Bobby Crosby, which will be made official as early as tomorrow pending the physical, will be for one year at a guaranteed $1 million plus as much as $500,000 in bonuses based on plate appearances.
Larry Granillo / Wezen Ball:
The History of the Highest Paid Player in Baseball — The Winter Meetings are going on right now, and, despite that Twitter seems to have exploded with hot stove rumors, the chances of anything really huge happening are pretty slim. A three-way trade here or a too-high contract offer …
Discussion:
Joe Posnanski, River Avenue Blues, Circling The Bases, It's About The Money and 3:10 To Joba
Mark Sheldon / MLB.com:
Jocketty continues to work all angles — No deals imminent as Winter Meetings wind down — INDIANAPOLIS — The Reds' quest to add an extra infielder took a new turn on Wednesday at the Winter Meetings. — General manager Walt Jocketty has shown interest in free agent Craig Counsell …
Discussion:
MLB Rumors
