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Buster Olney / ESPN:
Padres, Pirates deep in trade talks about OF Bay … Frustrated in their attempts to land outfielders this offseason, the San Diego Padres are deep into discussions with the Pittsburgh Pirates about a multiplayer deal that would be centered around All-Star outfielder Jason Bay.
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MLB Trade Rumors
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Tom Krasovic / San Diego Union-Tribune:
Cubs get Fukudome as Padres get Iguchi — Peavy announcement expected to be today — The Padres lost out in their bid for Japanese outfielder Kosuke Fukudome, who last night accepted a four-year offer from the Cubs worth close to $50 million. — The Padres did land a starting player from Japan …
Jeff Zrebiec / Baltimore Sun:
O's trade Tejada to Astros — Team gets OF Scott, pitchers Albers, Patton, Sarfate, 3B Costanzo in return — Two years after he first suggested that he'd benefit from a change of scenery, Orioles shortstop Miguel Tejada finally got his wish as he was traded to the Houston Astros today …
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Ken Rosenthal / Fox Sports:
Sources: O's trading Tejada to Astros — FOXSports.com, Updated 17 minutes ago — LIKE THIS STORY? — The Orioles have completed their first major off-season move, trading shortstop Miguel Tejada to the Astros, according to major-league sources. — Tejada, signed through 2009 …
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MLB Rumors
Tim Dierkes / MLB Trade Rumors:
Astros Acquire Miguel Tejada — UPDATE, 12-12-07 at 12:04pm: Rosenthal says Tejada is expected to play short for the Astros; Adam Everett's time may be up. Tejada's offensive output looks a lot better coming from short than it does coming from third, though it may be a moot point if Ty Wigginton is manning the hot corner.
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Hot Foot
Fox Sports:
Orioles trade Tejada to Astros — LIKE THIS STORY? — Miguel Tejada got his wish — albeit a couple of years later than he wanted. — Tejada was traded from the Baltimore Orioles to the Houston Astros for five players on Wednesday, giving the former AL MVP a fresh start on a team looking to boost its lineup.
Bill Ladson / MLB.com:
Milledge: I love the game, I play to win — Young center fielder introduced to media in Washington — WASHINGTON — Anthony Milledge Sr. wants everybody to know that his son, Lastings, is a good man, not the bad guy that was portrayed the last two seasons with the Mets.
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home.kyodo.co.jp:
Baseball: Kuroda appears to have chosen Dodgers: sources — Japanese free agent pitcher Hiroki Kuroda appears to have chosen the Los Angeles Dodgers as his new team, baseball sources said Wednesday. — Kuroda informed the Hiroshima Carp front office of his decision on Tuesday night …
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ESPN, Baseball Musings, Inside the Dodgers, U.S.S. Mariner, MLB Trade Rumors, Hot Foot and East Windup Chronicle
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Dylan Hernandez / Los Angeles Times:
Kent will return with $9-million option — Jones passes physical and will be introduced today. — Jeff Kent has postponed retirement and will play out the final year of his contract with the Dodgers, his agent said Tuesday night. — Jeff Klein wrote in an e-mail that the 39-year-old Kent …
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Peter Abraham / The Journal News:
Yankees set to offer contracts to Wang, Betemit, Cano — The Yankees today will go through the formality of offering Chien-Ming Wang a contract for next season. The right-hander hopes the arrangement will be for more than one season. — Via e-mail, Wang said yesterday that he would be willing …
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Ken Rosenthal / Fox Sports:
Cubs' lineup getting more dangerous — FOXSports.com, Updated 52 minutes ago — LIKE THIS STORY? — Now, imagine if the Cubs get Brian Roberts, too. — A trade for Roberts would transform an underachieving offense into one of the most potent in the National League.
Evan Grant / Dallas Morning News:
Rangers eye Japanese reliever — The Rangers may have lost out on their No. 1 Japanese free-agent target this winter, but it appears they won't come away empty-handed from their foray to the Far East. — While it appears outfielder Kosuke Fukudome will land with the Chicago Cubs …
Mike Fish / ESPN:
Congressional members anticipate details in Mitchell investigation … Christopher Shays describes himself as a casual baseball fan. He's the kind of guy who tracks the Red Sox and Yankees hardball rivalry from a distance but would never be caught dissecting box scores in the morning's Washington Post.
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Andrew Zimbalist / The Biz of Baseball:
Andrew Zimbalist Responds to JC Bradbury — I have quickly read the Bradbury response to my review [of Vince Gennaro's Diamond Dollars, and Bradbury's The Baseball Economist], as well as several other comments on the blog. I hope to have some time to write a fuller response down the road, but for now let me just note a few things.
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Maury Brown's Biz of Sports
Eduardo A. Encina / St. Petersburg Times:
Nontenders likely to be low-impact … ST. PETERSBURG - After the deadline to tender contracts to arbitration-eligible players arrives at midnight, the Rays will be scouring the suddenly expanded list of nontendered free agents, hoping to find the right fit for one of their holes.
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Rays of Light
Dejan Kovacevic / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Pirates, Tigers talk about pitcher Durbin — Other possibilities could open with arbitration non-tenders — The Pirates are engaged in trade talks with Detroit in an attempt to acquire right-handed starter Chad Durbin. — Durbin, 30, was 8-7 with a 4.32 ERA last season …
Letitia Stein / St. Petersburg Times:
School honors Yankees owner … TAMPA - New Yorkers may run hot and cold about Yankees owner George Steinbrenner. But in Tampa, he's only loved. — So much so that the Hillsborough School Board made a spur-of-the-moment decision Tuesday night to christen in his honor the George Steinbrenner High School in Lutz.
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The Griddle
