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Jeff Todd / MLB Trade Rumors:
Padres, Rays, Nationals Agree To Deal Centered Around Wil Myers — The Padres, Rays, and Nationals have agreed to a much-anticipated three-team swap — pending physicals — that will deliver important pieces to and from each club, Jim Bowden of ESPN.com reports on Twitter.
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Corey Brock / MLB.com:
Source: Myers to Padres in 11-player deal with Rays, Nats — MLB.com Padres reporter Corey Brock discusses the potential trade that would send Rays outfielder Wil Myers to San Diego — SAN DIEGO — A pair of first-year general managers and one who has been around the block pulled off a stunning 11-player …
Jerry Crasnick / ESPN.com:
Padres acquire Wil Myers from Rays … The San Diego Padres have agreed to a three-way trade, pending physicals, that would land them Tampa Bay Rays outfielder Wil Myers, a source confirmed to ESPN Insider Jim Bowden. — In the deal, which includes the Washington Nationals …
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Federal Baseball, MLB Trade Rumors, ESPN and Associated Press
Blair Kerkhoffthe / Kansas City Star:
Royals reportedly reach agreement with starting pitcher Edinson Volquez — The Royals had three major priorities in the offseason, and they appear to be fulfilled. — Edinson Volquez, who went 13-7 in 31 starts for the Pittsburgh Pirates last season, has reached two-year contract agreement …
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Jeff Todd / MLB Trade Rumors:
Royals To Sign Edinson Volquez — Starting pitcher Edinson Volquez and the Royals have agreed to a two year, $20MM deal, Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com reports (Twitter links). SB Nation's Chris Cotillo initially tweeted that the two sides were close. — A $20MM contract represents a win …
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Where Have You Gone …, MLB Daily Dish and Bucs Dugout
Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Opening of Relations Could Bring Cuban Stars to Major League Baseball — WASHINGTON — At a dinner in one of Fidel Castro's palaces in 1999, Castro and several of Major League Baseball's senior executives discussed one of the few bonds between Cuba and the United States: baseball.
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Jon Paul Morosi / Fox Sports:
What the shift in U.S.-Cuba relations means for baseball — FOX Sports — Chicago White Sox Cuban first baseman Jose Abreu won the 2014 AL Rookie of the Year award. — Considering the full scope of U.S.-Cuba relations — with countless lives altered and lost on account of a half-century stalemate …
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Jerry Crasnick / MLB:
Source: Giants, Romo finalizing $15M deal — The San Francisco Giants are finalizing a two-year, $15 million deal with reliever Sergio Romo, a source confirmed to ESPN. — Romo can earn an additional $1 million in bonuses for games finished, a second source familiar with the deal told ESPN.
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Jeff Todd / MLB Trade Rumors:
Giants To Re-Sign Sergio Romo
Giants To Re-Sign Sergio Romo
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Brian Garfinkel / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Braves trade Varvaro to Red Sox for pitching prospect — The Braves traded reliever Anthony Varvaro to the Red Sox for right-handed minor league reliever Aaron Kurcz, a former Cubs prospect best known for being sent to Boston as compensation when the Cubs hired former Red Sox general manager Theo Eptstein in March 2012.
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Jeff Todd / MLB Trade Rumors:
Red Sox Acquire Anthony Varvaro
Red Sox Acquire Anthony Varvaro
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Tom Verducci / SI.com:
Mike Piazza on HOF candidates from the “Steroid Era” … The Baseball Hall of Fame ballot includes 34 names that can be distilled to one mystery: whether John Smoltz or Craig Biggio or — in what would be an upset almost a half century in the making — both gain election.
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Dan ShaughnessyGLOBE / BostonGlobe.com:
Pedro Martinez and Curt Schilling on Dan Shaughnessy's Hall of Fame ballot
Pedro Martinez and Curt Schilling on Dan Shaughnessy's Hall of Fame ballot
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Matt Eddy / Baseball America:
2015 New York Mets Top 10 Prospects — Want More? Complete 2015 Top 10 Prospects Rankings — Get it all: Subscribe to Baseball America — Go 30 deep: Order the 2015 Prospect Handbook! — For the first time in a four-year tenure, general manager Sandy Alderson …
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Kevin Kernan / New York Post:
Terry Collins reveals Mets lineup plan and ‘the bat we need’
Terry Collins reveals Mets lineup plan and ‘the bat we need’
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Amazin' Avenue, HardballTalk and Metsblog
Marc Carig / Newsday:
Stephen Drew, Everth Cabrera still on Mets' radar … Baseball — Ranking MLB's free agent position players
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Nick Piecoro / Arizona Republic:
Wade Miley's preparation habits were apparently an issue for Diamondbacks — Wade Miley doesn't want to upset anyone with the Diamondbacks. He spent the first seven seasons of his professional career with them, leaves behind a lot of close friends and says he has no hard feelings.
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Vincent Goodwill Jr. / The Detroit News:
Pistons, Monroe stuck in contract tangles — Los Angeles — The Pistons and Greg Monroe appear headed for an eventual separation, a divorce that seemed inevitable the moment Monroe didn't agree to a long-term contract this summer as a restricted free agent.
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