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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 …
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.
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Zach Links / MLB Rumors:
Yankees Non-Tender Chien-Ming Wang — The Yankees have non-tendered Chien-Ming Wang, according to Joe Strauss of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (via Twitter). — The right-hander was clearly less than 100% to start the year and had season-ending shoulder surgery in July.
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 …
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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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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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.
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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.
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 …
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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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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