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Tim Dierkes / MLB Rumors:
Possible Non-Tenders To Watch — Baseball's non-tender deadline is tomorrow at 11pm CST, and MLBTR will of course have full coverage. Arbitration-eligible players, who typically have at least three but fewer than six years of big league service time, are sometimes cut loose to become free agents before reaching six years.
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Joe Cowley / Chicago Sun Times:
Sox see Yankees outfielder as leadoff man — INDIANAPOLIS — White Sox general manager Ken Williams has said it before, and he said it again. — “We don't have any money,” Williams said Wednesday during his meeting with the media. “We're close to our budget right now …
ESPN:
One of many — A boy waits for the rumbling sound of an old blue car to climb through the maple trees, and right after he hears it he can see through the barn window...
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 — The Dodgers signed pitcher Josh Towers to a minor league deal worth $700K in the Majors, according to the AP. Towers, 33 in February, posted a 3.05 ERA, 4.8 K/9, and 2.1 BB/9 in 103.3 Triple A innings for the Yankees and Nationals organizations this year.
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
Scott Merkin / MLB.com:
Carrasco could be non-tendered — Versatile White Sox hurler …
Carrasco could be non-tendered — Versatile White Sox hurler …
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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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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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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.
Alex Speier / Full Count:
Sox Will Tender a Contract to Kotchman — While there had been some speculation that the Red Sox might choose not to tender a contract to Casey Kotchman by Saturday's deadline to do so, multiple major-league sources say that the Red Sox have absolutely no plans to part ways with the first baseman.
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
Mark Timmons / LADodgerTalk.com:
Logan White and De Jon Watson Interview — OK, like I promised, here is the video of the interview I did with Logan White and De Jon Watson on Wednesday, December 9th at the Winter Meetings. — We had to break it down into two video files because of the length.