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Arbitration: To offer or not to offer? | MLB.com: News

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In ordinary offseasons, the deadline for clubs to offer arbitration to their ranked free agents, which this time arrives Monday at midnight ET, has been a rather predictable occasion. With few exceptions, teams not yet able to strike new deals in the roughly four weeks since their players' ...

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AaronGleeman.com — ... be nice to see the Twins recoup some of the value from the Young trade by taking him, but my guess is that Morlan won't make it to them. Even speculating that a specific player will be selected at all in the Rule 5 draft is somewhat pointless because the whole thing is very unpredictable, but Morlan is exactly the type of prospect many teams target and he's featured in all sorts of articles highlighting potential Rule 5 steals. Today is the deadline for teams to offer eligible players arbitration, which means that the Twins must ...

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Read: Tonight’s Deadline to offer Arbitration
MetsBlog.com — Tonight, at midnight, is the deadline for teams to offer arbitration to their own free agents, who have until next Sunday, Dec. 7, to accept it. Teams can continue to negotiate with their own free agents, regardless of whether the plater accepts arbitration. According to Ken Davidoff in Newsday, while the Mets are likely offer salary arbitration to free-agent Oliver Perez, they will probably not do so with Pedro Martinez, according to multiple industry sources. …perez will not accept arbitration for one season, because he can almost certainly sign a multi-year deal, be it with the Mets or with another ...

Should your squad be among nine teams interested in Griffey Jr.?
Big League Stew — As expected, Thanksgiving weekend was pretty much a place where all baseball news went to die. Apart from the Red Sox drying the ink on a three-year contract for Japanese pitcher Junichi Tazawa and run-of-the-mill arbitration news that puts me to sleep, most of baseball's movers and shakers took advantage of the extended holiday weekend to rest up for the free agent feast that will likely begin at the Bellagio next Monday.  One story, though, caused me to momentarily stop mainlining football and gravy and that was Ken Griffey Jr's agent claiming that nine teams are interested in The Kid's services for '09. After getting a ...