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11:25 PM ET, December 12, 2009

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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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Zach Links / MLB Rumors:
Yankees Non-Tender Chien-Ming Wang?
Bryan Hoch / MLB.com:
Yankees likely to non-tender Wang
Tyler Kepner / New York Times:
Yanks Unlikely to Offer Wang a New Contract
Ian Browne / MLB.com:
Probability of Sox re-signing Bay shrinking  —  Outfielder rejects latest from Boston with other clubs bidding  —  BOSTON — It is starting to appear unlikely that All-Star slugger Jason Bay will re-sign with the Boston Red Sox.  —  Amid a report from FOXSports.com that Bay …
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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 …
JSOnline:
Melvin asked about Correia  —  By Tom Haudricourt of the Journal Sentinel  —  I just talked to Brewers general manager Doug Melvin and he said he did contact the San Diego Padres today to see if they were interested in dealing right-hander Kevin Correia before the 11 p.m. deadline for tendering 2010 contracts.
Discussion: MLB Rumors
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Corey Brock / MLB.com:
Padres GM could be ready to deal
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Matthew Pouliot / Circling The Bases:
Brewers out of money, but do they need to be?
AdamMcCalvy / Brew Beat:
Counsell answer by Monday?
Discussion: JSOnline and MLB Rumors
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 …
Chico Harlan / Nationals Journal:
[UPDATED] Nats non-tender Olsen, MacDougal  —  Facing the midnight Saturday deadline to offer contracts to arbitration-eligible players, the Washington Nationals decided to cut ties with Scott Olsen and Mike MacDougal, pitchers coming off near-opposite seasons.
Matt Eddy / Baseball America:
Minor League Transactions  —  We're back with a special weekend edition of Minor League Transactions.  The first wave of minor league free agents have found homes for 2010, while the Winter Meetings in Indianapolis gave us five trades in five days involving minor leaguers.
Zach Links / MLB Rumors:
Athletics Non-Tender Jack Cust  —  Oakland has announced that they will not tender Jack Cust an offer, according to Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle (via Twitter).  The writing has been on the wall for Cust since the A's acquired Jake Fox from the Cubs.
Discussion: Bronx Baseball Daily
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
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.
Paul Sullivan / Chicago Breaking Sports:
Cubs to tender contracts to eight players  —  The deadline for extending contracts to arbitration-eligible players is 11 p.m. tonight, and as we've reported before, the Cubs will make offers to eight players.  —  The only one who will not be tendered is reliever Neal Cotts …
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 …
 
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