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Paul Hoynes / Plain Dealer:
RHP Brett Myers will get chance to start for Cleveland Indians after agreeing to 1-year deal — CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Indians have reached agreement with veteran right-hander Brett Myers on a one-year deal with a club option for 2014 pending a physical. — Myers, according to a league source …
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Zach Links / MLB Rumors:
Indians To Sign Brett Myers — WEDNESDAY: Myers' deal is worth $7MM, Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com reports (on Twitter). — TUESDAY: The Indians are set to sign Brett Myers to a one-year deal with a club option, according to Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com (on Twitter). The right-hander is represented by LSW Baseball.
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Daily Herald:
AAA — The day of reckoning has come. — Ballots arrived earlier this month in mailboxes of veteran members of the Baseball Writers Association of America. It's a day most voters look forward to like Christmas: voting for the Hall of Fame. — This year is different, and writers must make their choices.
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Jfay / Cincinnati Reds:
Exercising my right not to vote
Exercising my right not to vote
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Manish Mehta / NY Daily News:
Rex Ryan leaves New Jersey as Jets ponder next move — Rex Ryan has been eerily silent since the season ended. — The typically talkative coach hasn't commented on the team's decision to fire GM Mike Tannenbaum, the looming firing of offensive coordinator Tony Sparano, the new GM search or surviving the ax on Black Monday.
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Jerry Crasnick / ESPN:
Source: David Price, Rays agree — David Price, the American League Cy Young Award winner, has reached agreement on a one-year contract with the Tampa Bay Rays to avoid salary arbitration, a baseball source told ESPN.com. — Terms of Price's deal with the Rays weren't immediately available.
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Alex Speier / WEEI:
SOURCE: RED SOX WORK OUT BOBBY ABREU — According to a major league source, the Red Sox have worked out veteran Bobby Abreu in Venzezuela. As part of the workout, the team put the 38-year-old through drills at first base. It is believed the workout is part of both parties doing their due diligence …
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Jeff Passan / Yahoo! Sports:
Scott Boras' title of ‘Mr. January’ faces stiff challenge from MLB's new rules on free agency — Just like any document that runs 295 pages and 95,268 words, Major League Baseball's collective-bargaining agreement flirts often with the law of unintended consequences.
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Larry Holder / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
New Orleans Saints player: Steve Spagnuolo should be fired as defensive coordinator — Players throughout the season gave a uniform voice of support for New Orleans Saints defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo and the drastically different scheme he brought to the team when the Saints hired him one year ago.
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Associated Press:
Iowa's ‘Field of Dreams’ movie site sale completed — DYERSVILLE, Iowa (AP) - The purchase of the “Field of Dreams” movie site in eastern Iowa has been completed. — The investors group Go the Distance Baseball LLC says it closed last week on the deal reached with owners Don and Becky Lansing.
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Bob Owens:
Dick's Sporting Goods screws over their customers and their suppliers — After the Newtown tragedy, Dicks Sporting Goods—which presumably entered the modern sporting rifle (MSR) market purely for financial gain when it saw other sporting good stores selling them by the truckload—screwed over hundreds or thousands of customers.
Anna Hiatt / Yahoo! News:
Why baseball's National League should adopt the DH — Designated hitters don't ruin America's pastime — they make it more fun to watch — Pitchers are terrible hitters. We all know it. Of course, it's completely understandable. Aspiring young pitchers are so busy perfecting their curveball …
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