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 …

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 …

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.

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.

Giants could make Garko free agent  —  Deadline looms to tender contract to first baseman  —  SAN FRANCISCO — The possible restructuring of the Giants' infield might proceed without first baseman Ryan Garko.  —  The 28-year-old appears to be the Giant most likely to jettisoned …

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 …

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 …

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.

Red Sox let Anderson go; agree to deal with Bonser  —  BOSTON—Outfielder Brian Anderson became a free agent when the Boston Red Sox decided against offering him a contract for next season.  —  Anderson hit .243 with four homers and 18 RBIs last season for the Chicago White Sox and the Red Sox …

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.