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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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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.
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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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 …
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 …
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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.
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.
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 …
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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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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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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 …
