WANG BECOMES FREE AGENT AS YANKS FAIL TO OFFER 2010 CONTRACT  —  NEW YORK — Chien-Ming Wang became a free agent when the New York Yankees failed to offer a contract for next season by Saturday night's deadline.  —  The 29-year-old right-hander was a 19-game winner in 2006 and 2007 …

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 …

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.

Ronny Paulino will return to Florida Marlins in 2010, Alfredo Amezaga might not  —  The Marlins' arbitration roster is down to eight after the team non-tendered utility player Alfredo Amezaga and reached a contract agreement with catcher Ronny Paulino.  Tendered were second baseman Dan Uggla …

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.

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.

[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.

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …