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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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MLB.com, Baseball Hot Corner, Phillies Nation, DRaysBay, Beisbol's Org, FanGraphs Baseball and BBTF's Baseball Primer …
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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 …
Ken Rosenthal / Fox Sports:
NATS COULD BE BIG WINNER IN 3-TEAM TRADE OF PADRES GETTING RAYS' MYERS — Anyone who rushes to judgment on the Rays-Padres-Nationals megadeal might want to recall the last time Wil Myers was traded. — Remember? — The Royals were ripped for trading Myers, then one of the game's top hitting prospects …
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Nats Noodles, The Nationals Review, Nats Insider and Federal Baseball
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 …
Discussion:
ESPN and MLB Trade Rumors
Ben Badler / Baseball America:
How Will MLB Handle Big Changes With Cuba? — The next step toward an influx of Cuban players coming to Major League Baseball teams is underway. On Wednesday, President Barack Obama announced sweeping changes in the United States' Cuban policies, easing trade and travel restrictions …
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HardballTalk
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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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FanGraphs Baseball, New Jersey Online, The LoHud Yankees Blog and BusinessJournalism.org …
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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MLB.com, MLB Trade Rumors and Washington Post
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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HardballTalk
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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 …
Discussion:
Royals Review, Where Have You Gone …, MLB Daily Dish and Bucs Dugout
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.
Discussion:
McCovey Chronicles
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Jeff Todd / MLB Trade Rumors:
Giants To Re-Sign Sergio Romo
Discussion:
McCovey Chronicles, Amazin' Avenue, MLB Daily Dish and The LoHud Yankees Blog
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.
Discussion:
Over the Monster and Chop County
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Jeff Todd / MLB Trade Rumors:
Red Sox Acquire Anthony Varvaro
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Talking Chop, Over the Monster and MLB Daily Dish
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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Boston Globe, Deadspin, AZ Snake Pit, NESN.com, Over the Monster and HardballTalk
Marc Carig / Newsday:
Stephen Drew, Everth Cabrera still on Mets' radar … Baseball — Ranking MLB's free agent position players
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Metsblog and Amazin' Avenue
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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New Jersey Online and Metsblog
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Kevin Kernan / New York Post:
Terry Collins reveals Mets lineup plan and ‘the bat we need’
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Amazin' Avenue, HardballTalk and Metsblog
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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HardballTalk
