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6:25 PM ET, December 12, 2009

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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.
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Zach Links / MLB Rumors:
Yankees Non-Tender Chien-Ming Wang?
Discussion: Circling The Bases
Tyler Kepner / New York Times:
Yanks Unlikely to Offer Wang a New Contract
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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Tim Dierkes / MLB Rumors:   Dodgers Sign Josh Towers
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.
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 …
Mark Bowman / MLB.com:
Johnson, Church non-tendered by Braves  —  Both players enter free agency; Moylan, Logan arb-eligible  —  ATLANTA — The Braves were able to appease Matt Diaz's wish to get his new contract completed as soon as possible.  But after multiple attempts to trade Kelly Johnson …
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 …
Discussion: MASNsports.com
Matthew Cerrone / MetsBlog.com:
Alex Cora Injures Back … MetsFan06 … mextache … FlushingLumberCo86
Twitlonger:
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.
Discussion: Al's Ramblings
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 …
Benjamin Kabak / River Avenue Blues:
Report: Yanks interested in Ryota Igarashi  —  With Brian Bruney and Phil Coke exiled to Washington and Detroit and Phil Hughes slotted for the starting rotation, the Yanks' bullpen is in flux right now.  Mariano Rivera, Damaso Marte, David Robertson, Al Aceves and probably Chad Gaudin …
Discussion: Yakyu Baka and Sliding Into Home
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 …
Discussion: NESN.com
Mike Axisa / MLB Rumors:
Non-Tendered Players  —  The deadline for teams to offer contract to their players with less than six years of service time is midnight ET tonight, so let's keep track off all the non-tenders here in one post.  Make sure you check back in, we'll be updating this post throughout the day.
 
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