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Steve Gilbert / MLB.com:
D-backs face several decisions — Hudson, Dunn among five arbitration-eligible free agents — PHOENIX — The D-backs will have extra picks in the 2009 First-Year Player Draft. How many will depend on how many of their free agents they offer salary arbitration to by Monday's 10 p.m. MST deadline.
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T.R. Sullivan / MLB.com:
Bradley likely to get arbitration offer — Veteran designated hitter considered Type B free agent — ARLINGTON — The Rangers are expected to offer arbitration to free-agent outfielder Milton Bradley before Monday's deadline. — Bradley is a Type B free agent.
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Nat Boyle / MLB Rumors:
Rosenthal's Latest: Dunn, Wood, Sheets — By Nat Boyle [November 30 at 9:53am CST] — Ken Rosenthal suggests that in this economy some teams may not offer arbitration to Type A free agents to avoid risking a payroll hit. Further, some players may opt to accept the certainty of arbitration over “a volatile free agent period.”
David W. Chen / New York Times:
City Pressed Hard for Use of Yankee Luxury Suite — The Bloomberg administration was so intent on obtaining a free luxury suite for its own use at the new Yankee Stadium, newly released e-mail messages show, that the mayor's aides pushed for a larger suite and free food …
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NY Daily News:
City demanded free suite, food from Yankees, e-mails reveal — Mayor Bloomberg's top aides engaged in a behind-the-scenes brawl to win a free luxury suite at the new Yankee Stadium that could wind up costing taxpayers, e-mails show. — Some of the mayor's top deputies spent months threatening and cajoling to get the free skybox.
Nick Cafardo / Boston Globe:
Lowe in win-win situation — He'll strike it rich with a contender — He spent Thanksgiving with his family in Fort Myers, Fla., watching his beloved Detroit Lions lose again, working out like a fiend with former Red Sox and Pedro Martínez trainer Chris Correnti …
Steve Gilbert / MLB.com:
O's may fit as third team in Peavy deal — Reportedly discussing Pie with Cubs, who would get Padres ace — The Orioles may end up as a third team in a three-way deal that would send Padres right-hander Jake Peavy to the Cubs, according to a report in the Baltimore Sun.
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Dejan Kovacevic / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Pirates in the Caribbean: Mining for diamonds — Part 1: A young Dominican outduels peers who play baseball ‘for food’ — SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — It is 9 a.m., and the November sun is searing this walled-off urban minefield of a baseball diamond, where Sadid Frias has filed into a fidgeting line of 17 hopeful teenagers.
Dick Kaegel / MLB.com:
Royals ink three to Minors deals — Prospects House, Tupman and Osoria added to the fold — KANSAS CITY — The Royals have signed catcher J.R. House, once a top prospect for the Pittsburgh Pirates, to a Minor League contract. — House, who also plays first base, last season batted .306 …
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Nat Boyle / MLB Rumors:
Perrotto's Latest: Teixeira, Burnett, Wilson — By Nat Boyle [November 30 at 1:02pm CST] — John Perrotto of Baseball Prospectus has his Sunday article up. Let's go through it: — The Angels may be willing to match the Yankees $140MM offer to CC Sabathia. They won't offer 10 years to Mark Teixeira.
Ken Davidoff / Newsday:
MLB INSIDER: Mets trying to catch up? — Earlier this offseason, the Mets asked the Rangers about catcher Gerald Laird, just as they did last year, a person familiar with the situation said. — There hasn't been much discussion there lately; the Mets, as we all know, have prioritized the renovation of their pitching staff.
