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5:50 PM ET, January 9, 2019

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Mike Chiari / Bleacher Report:
Manny Machado Rumors: Decision Coming Within a Week amid Yankees Links  —  Free-agent infielder Manny Machado is reportedly expected to sign with a team “within a week,” according to Bruce Levine of 670 The Score in Chicago.  —  Levine noted that the Chicago White Sox …
Discussion: MLB Trade Rumors and NESN.com
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Bruce Levine / 670 The Score:
Momentum Growing For Sox In Machado Sweepstakes  —  Manny Machado is believed to be nearing a decision this week.  —  MLB  —  White Sox  —  (670 The Score) The prevailing feeling across the MLB landscape is that momentum is building for the White Sox in the Manny Machado sweepstakes.
Discussion: NESN.com
Phil Thompson / Chicago Tribune:
Kelvin Herrera says White Sox remind him of the rebuilding Royals who won the 2015 World Series  —  Chicago Tribune  —  Kelvin Herrera played an integral role on the Royals team that won the 2015 World Series, and the White Sox's newest reliever said he sees some of the same signs …
Discussion: Sox Machine
Paul Sullivan / Baltimore Sun:   Failing to land Manny Machado — or Bryce Harper — would be a double doink for the White Sox
ESPN:
2019's stealth contenders and the next move each should make
Discussion: NESN.com
Associated Press:   MLB payrolls dropped for 1st time since 2010
Tim Bannon / Chicago Tribune:
The White Sox keep hiring Manny Machado's friends and relatives. Weird coincidence?
Jeff PassanESPN / ESPN:
White Sox to sign Jon Jay to one-year, $4 million contract
ESPN:
Former Cardinal Chris Duncan takes leave from radio job  —  Former St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Chris Duncan has taken a permanent leave of absence from his radio job to battle brain cancer.  —  Duncan, the son of former Cardinals pitching coach Dave Duncan, hit 22 homers as a rookie during St. Louis' 2006 title run.
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Scott Boeck / USA Today:
Chris Duncan, former St. Louis Cardinals outfielder, battling brain cancer  —  Chris Duncan, the former St. Louis Cardinals outfielder who was a part of the 2006 World Series championship team, has taken a permanent medical leave of absence from his ESPN radio show to focus on his battle against brain cancer.
Derrick Goold / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Chris Duncan leaves radio role to focus on his battle with brain cancer  —  Chris Duncan, the Cardinals' slugger who found his swing with a championship team and later his voice with a local sports radio station, has taken a permanent leave from his on-air role to focus on his ongoing battle against brain cancer.
Discussion: New York Post and FOX2now.com
David Schoenfield / ESPN:
Rankings and predictions for every top remaining free agent  —  It's time for a free-agency update!  There are still a lot of free agents out there beside Bryce Harper and Manny Machado — including some quality second basemen, one of the best closers of all time, some past-their-prime outfielders …
Wallace Matthews / New York Daily News:
Ed Kranepool is waiting on a miracle, but the Mets great knows all about Amazin' finishes  —  Ed Kranepool has beaten seemingly insurmountable odds before.  —  As a member of the 1969 Miracle Mets, Kranepool completed a seven-year journey that started with a team that lost 120 games in its inaugural season …
Associated Press:
Mets, Travis d'Arnaud agree to $3.5 million deal  —  NEW YORK — Catcher Travis d'Arnaud got a $40,000 raise from the New York Mets to $3,515,000 despite missing nearly all of last season following Tommy John surgery.  —  D'Arnaud, who turns 30 on Feb. 10, has been on the disabled list …
Rick Stroud / Tampa Bay Times:
How Cubs manager Joe Maddon helped recruit Bruce Arians to the Bucs  —  Maddon and Arians grew up about 100 miles apart in Pennsylvania and a dinner at his south Tampa restaurant helped talk the Cardinals coach out of retiremment  —  Bruce Arians needed some convincing.
J.J. Cooper / Baseball America:
Astros Scouting And Player Development Is Extending Team's Contention Window  —  With the Mets needing corner infield depth, the Astros sent third baseman J.D. Davis to New York on Sunday and brought back in return Luis Santana, a promising teenaged middle infield prospect who is years away from the majors.
Baseball America:
2018-19 Q&A With Minor League Baseball President Pat O'Conner  —  Every year at the Winter Meetings, Baseball America sits down with Pat O'Conner, the president of Minor League Baseball, for a wide-ranging interview.  This year's sit down was conducted on the final day of the Meetings, at Las Vegas' Mandalay Bay hotel.
Discussion: redsminorleagues.com
 
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