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Joe Strauss / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Cardinals make offer to Matt Holliday — The Cardinals have tendered a formal offer for free-agent left fielder Matt Holliday and hope to receive a response from the player's agent, Scott Boras, sometime early next week. — Terms of the offer are not known at this time.
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Bart Hubbuch / New York Post:
Mets need to lengthen offer to land Bay — If the Mets are really serious about landing Jason Bay, the feeling among baseball executives is they probably are going to have to add a fifth year to their four-year, $63 million offer. — Another year — at close to $20 million …
Sports Illustrated:
Kendall goes to Royals, Putz to White Sox — NEW YORK (AP) -Jason Kendall got a $6 million, two-year contract from the Kansas City Royals and J.J. Putz agreed to a $3 million, one-year deal with the Chicago White Sox on Friday as players and teams kept making moves following the winter meetings.
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Jason Kendall / Associated Press:
Kendall to Royals, Putz to White Sox as teams makes moves after winter meetings
Kendall to Royals, Putz to White Sox as teams makes moves after winter meetings
Bruce Levine / ESPN.com:
Chicago White Sox sign reliever J.J. Putz to 1-year deal
Chicago White Sox sign reliever J.J. Putz to 1-year deal
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Thomas Harding / MLB.com:
Rockies part ways with Atkins — Non-tendered third baseman becomes free agent — DENVER — Garrett Atkins' 467 regular-season RBIs over the past five seasons are the most of any Rockies players. But he has driven in his last run in purple pinstripes. — The Rockies will not tender …
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Ken Davidoff / Newsday:
Yankees to say goodbye to rehabilitating Wang — The Yankees' top priority this offseason remains improving their starting rotation. On Saturday, however, they'll bid farewell to the pitcher who has won the most games since Brian Cashman became a bona fide general manager.
David Waldstein / New York Times:
A Winter Meeting Designed by and for Women in Baseball — INDIANAPOLIS — The old boys of winter were in full stride, standing in a hotel lobby discussing this pitcher's slider or that outfielder's arbitration figures. — At the same moment, across the street from where all the scouts …
Peter Gammons / ESPN:
My 20 years at ESPN — So many wonderful memories, so many wonderful, hardworking people to thank — John Walsh is one of the rare people who see what most of us never imagined. “The future of television is information,” he told me, a Boston Globe-trained Sports Illustrated guy.
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Seth McClung — Thank you Milwaukee brewers fans. You guys were outstanding. Thank you Doug Melvin and Gord Ash for bringing me over and giving me a chance. — Thank you Mike Maddux, Bill Castro, Ned Yost and Dale Sevum for giving me the ball and helping me grow as a player.
Rhett Bollinger / MLB.com:
Towers inks Minors deal with LA — Right-hander spent 2009 with Yankees, Nationals — The Dodgers signed right-hander Josh Towers to a Minor League contract worth $700,000, the Associated Press reported on Friday. — The 32-year-old made two appearances with the Yankees last season …
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Matthew Cerrone / MetsBlog.com:
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Tyler Kepner / New York Times:
Yanks Unlikely to Offer Wang a New Contract — If you look closely at the photos of the Yankees' celebration after winning the World Series, you will see Chien-Ming Wang among the happy throng. He blends in as a bystander to their success, contributing just one victory all season …
Matthew Pouliot / Circling The Bases:
Brewers out of money, but do they need to be? — Indications are that the Brewers are just about out of cash after signing Randy Wolf and LaTroy Hawkins for their pitching staff at the meetings. They do have an offer out to Craig Counsell, but they could well be done adding significant free agents.
Chico Harlan / Nationals Journal:
Your new (starting?) catcher, Pudge Rodriguez — Plenty of highlights from the Pudge Rodriguez press conference this afternoon, but the takeaway lesson can be reduced to four words: Pudge wants to play. — A few days back, all the Nats folks were talking about how Ivan Rodriguez was best suited …
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Corey Brock / MLB.com:
Padres GM could be ready to deal — If Hoyer can't sign Correia, right-hander may be traded — SAN DIEGO — Could new Padres general manager Jed Hoyer be on the verge of making his first trade? — At the very least, on the eve of the deadline to tender contracts to arbitration-eligible players …