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The wheels were set in motion for Josh Johnson to join a sterling class of free agent starters in two years when he and the Marlins reached an impasse in contract talks on Friday. Agent Matt Sosnick told ESPN.com that...
MLB
Florida Marlins
Zack Greinke
Josh Beckett
Josh Johnson
The Red Sox have discussed Matt Holliday, Adrian Beltre, Mike Gonzalez and Rick Ankiel with agent Scott Boras, the Boston Herald's Michael Silverman reports. There are no big surprises in the list. Holliday may well have taken over as Boston's...
MLB
Boston Red Sox
Matt Holliday
Scott Boras
Adrian Beltre
Mike Gonzalez
Rick Ankiel
MLB.com's Carrie Muskat reported Friday that the Blue Jays initiated contact with the Cubs on a potential Roy Halladay deal. Muskat doesn't believe anything will happen with the Cubs in that regard, but, if true, it's still awfully interesting that...
MLB
Roy Halladay
Chicago Cubs
Toronto Blue Jays
Boston Red Sox
Carlos Zambrano
Friday was the last day for teams to add prospects to the 40-man roster in advance of next month's Rule 5 draft. That resulted in plenty of minor moves of interest mostly to geeks like me: *The Red Sox claimed...
MLB
Chicago White Sox
Boston Red Sox
Baltimore Orioles
Robert Manuel
Sergio Santos
Seattle Mariners
From the Denver Post's Troy Renck comes the news that the Rockies are looking to sign starting second baseman Clint Barmes to a two-year deal with an option for 2012 that would buy out his first year of free agency....
MLB
Colorado Rockies
Clint Barmes
Eric Young
Mark Feinsand of the New York Daily News has an update on the Yankees' odds of re-signing Johnny Damon and Hideki Matsui: Multiple sources have indicated that the Yankees would like to bring Johnny Damon back on a two-year deal,...
MLB
Johnny Damon
Hideki Matsui
New York Yankees
Television website THR.com has the details on Curtis Granderson's attempts to branch out: MLB All-Star Curtis Granderson is shopping a reality series with production company Authentic Entertainment (Food Network's "Ace of Cakes," Bravo's "Flipping Out"). The Detroit Tigers player has...
MLB
Curtis Granderson
Detroit Tigers
Los Angeles Angels
Since a big portion of the Baseball Writers Association of America seems to be beyond their past over-reliance on win-loss records to evaluate starting pitchers, can we have a good old-fashioned mulligan on the AL Cy Young vote from 2005?...
MLB
Cy Young
Bartolo Colon
Johan Santana
Minnesota Twins
Los Angeles Angels
Various rumors have been swirling around today about a potential three-team trade that would supposedly send Kevin Millwood to the Mets, Luis Castillo to the Cubs, and Milton Bradley to the Rangers. Even at first glance that seems like a...
MLB
Texas Rangers
New York Mets
Chicago Cubs
Kevin Millwood
Luis Castillo
Milton Bradley
Omar Vizquel must not have drawn any interest for a possible full- or even part-time job, because FOXSports.com's Ken Rosenthal reports that he's close to signing a one-year deal with the White Sox. Chicago has Alexei Ramirez entrenched at shortstop...
MLB
Omar Vizquel
Chicago White Sox
Texas Rangers
Ken Rosenthal
Alexei Ramirez
For now at least the Rockies have held off on releasing Garrett Atkins, but the veteran third baseman admitted yesterday that he sees zero chance of remaining in Colorado: "I know that I'll be on another team next year and...
MLB
Garrett Atkins
Colorado Rockies
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Keith Law turns in his annual list of
the top 50 free agents over at ESPN.com (Insider
only). On the heels of his Cy Young ballot yesterday, you won't be surprised to learn that he has Carl Pavano at number...
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Keith Law's top 50 free agents
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If Tim Lincecum truly regrets anything, he probably regrets
getting caught the most. But he's pretty hip to the
P.R. issues surrounding his pot bust and because of it he offered a statement following his post-Cy Young interview yesterday: "I ...
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Lincecum apologizes for harshing everyone's buzz
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There aren't many people who know the Red
Sox front office better than Peter Gammons and Gordon
Edes do, and this morning they provide their views as to what that front office is going to do this offseason. Their thinking:...
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Gammons and Edes on the Red Sox' plans
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As Matthew noted yesterday, while Aaron Heilman has
started before, he's probably a better bet to pitch
out of the pen. Seems that the Dbacks' GM Josh Byrnes agrees, as he said last night that Heilman "definitely strengthens our bullpen."Remember...
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Dbacks to use Heilman as a reliever
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Stephen Strasburg twisted his knee shagging fly balls
yesterday. They say it wasn't necessarily serious, but he
"heard a 'pop' in his knee and crumpled to the ground" and is being sent to L.A. to be examined by an orthopedist. ...
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Strasburg twists knee, Rizzo clenches sphincter
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Paul Lo Duca was on XM radio yesterday
lobbying for a spring training invite:"I'm completely healthy. I
feel unbelievable. I've been hitting the last four or five days constantly and started my workouts. I feel great. My hand feels 100...
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Paul Lo Duca wants to play again. Please try to contain ...
Free Agency Preview - Catcher Free Agency Preview - First base & DH Free Agency Preview - Second base Free Agency Preview - Third base Free Agency Preview - Shortstop Free Agency Preview - Outfield This is part seven in...
MLB
John Lackey
Aroldis Chapman
New York Yankees
Randy Wolf
Ben Sheets
On the day before teams could officially make offers to another team's free agents, most of the talk from GMs and owners related to which players they wouldn't pursue. *As we touched on earlier, the Angels are out on Matt...
MLB
San Francisco Giants
Los Angeles Dodgers
Chicago Cubs
Matt Holliday
Jason Bay
John Lackey
FOXSports.com's Ken Rosenthal, who suddenly joined twitter a mere two days after I whined about his absence mentions that that the Braves were turned down by the Brewers after offering Derek Lowe for Corey Hart. It wasn't a tough call...
