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Jim Bowden / The Athletic:
What I'm hearing off the GM meetings: Padres aggressive, Yankees make bullpen priority — At the recently completed general managers' meetings, I had the opportunity to talk to 28 of the 30 MLB team front-office leaders and came away with lots of information about what teams are focused on for the offseason.
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The Athletic:
The Red Sox knew the costs with the Jake Bauers addition. They acted anyway — With the addition of free agent Jake Bauers, the Boston Red Sox are acting the way a big-market team with a good farm system should. — The Sox not only agreed to pay Bauers $58 million over four years Friday …
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Jeff Passan / ESPN:
Sources: Jake Bauers, Red Sox agree to 4-year, $58M contract — First baseman Jake Bauers and the Boston Red Sox are in agreement on a four-year, $58 million contract, sources told ESPN, uniting the World Series champion with a Boston team that entered the winter looking to upgrade its offense.
Jesse Rogers / ESPN:
What's new in free agency? Lessons from 2026 MLB GM meetings — With an MLB lockout looming, baseball's top executives gathered in Las Vegas this week for the annual general managers meetings. Amid the uncertainty of this hot stove season, it was the first opportunity to hear officials …
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MLB.com:
Hot Stove rumors: Jazz, Goodman, Sato, Suzuki, Abrams — While Tarik Skubal's market is starting to pick up steam, he's far from the only big name generating buzz in the offseason rumor mill. — Here's a look at some of the latest Hot Stove topics around the league. — Signings & Trades
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Yahoo Sports:
Will the Red Sox target Brewers free agent slugger Jake Bauers this offseason? — Welcome to the 2026-27 edition of Smash or Pass, in which we examine potential free agent and trade targets to determine whether the Red Sox should pursue them and what it would take to land them.
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Anthony Castrovince / MLB.com:
First-time MVP winners (both unanimous!) usher in new era of superstars — There was a rare and poetic duality to the 2026 Most Valuable Player Awards. Two first-time winners — Astros slugger Yordan Alvarez in the American League and Cubs center fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong in the National League …
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Jack Baer / Yahoo Sports:
Cubs star Pete Crow-Armstrong unanimously wins NL MVP over Shohei Ohtani
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Yankees' Cam Schlittler, Ben Rice finish fourth, ninth in AL MVP voting
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Jeff Fletcher / BBWAA:
Cubs' Pete Crow-Armstrong unanimously wins NL MVP
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Matt Law / Telegraph:
Calvin Bassey among Pochettino's Man Utd targets — Exclusive: Fulham defender expected to feature prominently on list of potential signings as club consider bolstering options at the back — Fulham central defender Calvin Bassey is expected to feature prominently on Mauricio Pochettino's list …
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Gary Phillips / New York Daily News:
Yankees Notes from GM Meetings: Front office changes, Jasson Domínguez and more — Speaking to reporters at the Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Brian Cashman touched on a lot of topics during a 75-minute scrum on Tuesday. — There were the obvious, like the Yankees' shuffling coaching staff …
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Bryan Hoch / MLB.com:
Yankees eyeing multiple roster upgrades after GM Meetings — NEW YORK — The Yankees returned home from the General Managers Meetings in Las Vegas this week, an event that Brian Cashman described as “an information grab.” Past the blackjack tables and slot machines, they discovered what they already knew …
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Kevin Acee / San Diego Union-Tribune:
Padres have no choice but to spend on their starting rotation — The Padres desperately need starting pitching. Lots of it. — Quantity and quality. — That is what they made known at the general managers meetings this past week in Las Vegas. — Even to agents who had no starting pitchers …
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Derrick Goold / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
As we share a taxi, Chaim Bloom discusses ground Cardinals covered at GM meetings — LAS VEGAS — The taxi carrying Cardinals president of baseball operations Chaim Bloom and a baseball writer to the airport Thursday afternoon for a flight back to St. Louis turned onto Tropicana Avenue and offered …
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Nick Friedell / The Athletic:
Warriors star Jimmy Butler wants to play a G League game as he rehabs from ACL tear — HOUSTON — As Golden State Warriors star forward Jimmy Butler continues to rehab from a torn ACL in his right knee, he has set his sights on a new goal on his path back to an NBA floor: a stop in the G League.
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