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Report: John Smoltz Nears Deal With Red Sox
mlb.fanhouse.com - 1/10/2009
Report: John Smoltz Nears Deal With Red Sox
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by Pat Lackey There are some sentences that simply do not look right. " John Smoltz signs with the Red Sox" is one of them, but that's apparently what's going down tonight in Boston as Buster Olney is reporting that the long-time Brave is nearing a one-year deal with the Sox worth $5.5 ...
msn.foxsports.com - 1/10/2009
Red Sox sign free-agent reliever Saito
— msn.foxsports.com — The Red Sox, taking another low-risk, high-reward gamble, have signed free-agent reliever Takashi Saito to a one-year... contract with a club option for 2010 according to major-league sources. (more) Red Sox sign free-agent reliever Saito

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What Can We Expect from Smoltz and Penny
fantasypros911.com - 1/11/2009
What Can We Expect from Smoltz and Penny
— fantasypros911.com — The Red Sox are playing the low risk/high reward game with their signings of John Smoltz and... Brad Penny. Can either of them return to their '07 form in '09? (more) What Can We Expect from Smoltz and Penny

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boston.redsox.mlb.com - 1/10/2009
Busy Red Sox add reliever Saito | redsox.com: News
— boston.redsox.mlb.com — The Red Sox continue to stay busy this offseason. On Saturday, they officially announced they have signed... reliever Takashi Saito to a one-year contract with a club option for 2010. Saito is the fourth player Boston has signed this week, joining ... (more) Busy Red Sox add reliever Saito | redsox.com: News

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Where Have You Gone, Andy Van Slyke? — Chris Gomez is a Pirate no more. Yaaaaaaaaaawn. I really like Nicolas' idea to do a sort of Pirates' "Futures Game." I'm pretty sure the team used to do something like this in the 90s, but stopped. RIP Dave Roberts (1979 Pirates' version) I know I wrote this at FanHouse a couple days ago, but how friggin' weird is John Smoltz going to look in a Red Sox uniform? Replacement Level Yankees Blog has run the Hardball Times projections through a simulator 100 times and has the standings posted. Guess what? The sim says the ...

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