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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.
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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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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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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.
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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
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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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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Diamond Leung / PE Angels Baseball:
Jeff Kent decides to return to the Dodgers — Download story podcast — The Press-Enterprise — LOS ANGELES - Second baseman Jeff Kent will return to the Dodgers next season, his agent announced Tuesday, deciding against retirement following a 2007 campaign that left him frustrated enough …
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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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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 …
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.
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
Susan Slusser / San Francisco Chronicle:
A's are hoping for a healthy meeting — (12-11) 19:52 PST — When the A's convene today in Phoenix, the topic will be health. If he gets very good news on that front, Oakland general manager Billy Beane might decide to decline offers for starters Dan Haren and, perhaps, Joe Blanton, and go for it in 2008.
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