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sports.espn.go.com - 11/14/2008

Yankees make offer to Sabathia

— sports.espn.go.com — The Yankees offered free-agent pitcher CC Sabathia the largest contract for a pitcher in baseball history, according... to ESPN The Magazine's Buster Olney. (more) Yankees make offer to Sabathia

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Johan Santana

C.C. Sabathia

New York Yankees

Milwaukee Brewers

New York Mets

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jsonline.com - 11/15/2008

Yankees' offer baffles Melvin

— jsonline.com — The New York Yankees reportedly offered free agent left-hander CC Sabathia the biggest pitching contract in major-league... history Friday, which drew a somewhat puzzled response from Milwaukee Brewers general manager Doug Melvin. "It sounds like they're ... (more) Yankees' offer baffles Melvin

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C.C. Sabathia

Milwaukee Brewers

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yankees.lhblogs.com - 11/15/2008

Hank: We want all the pitchers

— yankees.lhblogs.com — After hours of unrelenting torture at the hands of the Associated Press, Hank Steinbrenner broke down tonight... and revealed what the Yankees are up to. Steinbrenner confirmed that Brian Cashman made an offer to CC Sabathia. Then he added: ... (more) Hank: We want all the pitchers

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New York Yankees

Derek Lowe

Hank Steinbrenner

Brian Cashman

C.C. Sabathia

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Arneson To Beane, Obama : Tell Me When It’s Over
Can't Stop The Bleeding — While MLB Trade Rumors has compiled most of the day’s reports claiming the Yankees are about to offer a $140 million pact to free agent P CC Sabathia (with Derek Lowe and A.J. Burnett proposals supposedly pending as well), Catfish Stew’s Ken Arneson fails to see the logic in this week’s A’s/Rockies swap, opining “Matt Holliday is an overripe banana, because the A’s are building around a core of players who will mature in about 2012 or so, but ...

Heyman: Expect Yankees to Make Offer to CC Today
YanksBlog.com — The free agency period has officially begun, and John Heyman is reporting that the Yankees will make a hefty offer to CC Sabathia as early as today that will exceed the $137 million dollar deal the Mets gave to Johan Santana last year (perhaps $160 million and a small island or two?). This isn't news outside of what we expected, but the article also expands on the Yankees' pursuit of A.J. Burnett and Derek Lowe: Heyman also mentions that the Yankees expect Mike Mussina to decide on whether to return or not sometime next week (via WFAN). UPDATE: Just heard on ESPN that the ...

Yanks To Make Early (Huge) Offer to Sabathia
Sliding Into Home: A Yankees Blog — ... And according to Jon Heyman the Yankees will also make offers to free agent pitchers A.J. Burnett and Derek Lowe in the next day or two. He also said that they remain interesting in Manny Ramirez, but they're focusing on pitching first. And since they just traded for Nick Swisher it's unlikely that they will make a run at Mark Teixeira. ...

Starting Pitcher: Mets have No interest in Sabathia
MetsBlog.com — ... Yesterday at SI.com, Jon Heyman wrote that the Yankees would make an offer to Sabathia that will exceed what the Mets paid Santana, followed by offers to ...

Offers To Burnett & Lowe Coming From Yankees
WasWatching.com — Via Jon Heyman: The Yankees will make an offer to exceed Johan Santana’s $137.5 million contract to top target CC Sabathia and closely follow that bold first strike with proposals within the next day or two to A.J. Burnett and Derek Lowe, SI.com has learned. The Yankees’ aggressive three-pronged free agent pitching approach puts them in position to dominate the free-agent market. The three offers together are expected to total in the $250 million range. The Yankees are hoping to blow away the field for Sabathia, who prefers to play ...