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Hal McCoy / Dayton Daily News:
Source: Reds deal Bailey for White Sox slugger — Jermaine Dye, a 12-year veteran with a .278 career average, would give team a proven right-handed batter. — With baseball's annual winter meetings unfurling this week at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, rumors run rampant.
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Mark Gonzales / Chicago Tribune:
White Sox shoot down trade rumors about Dye, Jenks — LAS VEGAS - While the White Sox awaited word on whether free-agent Orlando Cabrera would decline their salary arbitration offer, two trade scenarios were shot down Sunday night on the eve of the winter meetings.
Mark Sheldon / MLB.com:
Reds deny Bailey-for-Dye trade rumor — LAS VEGAS — Trade rumors are a staple of Winter Meetings activity, and the Reds have shot down their first big rumor of the week. — On Sunday night, general manager Walt Jocketty categorically denied a report from the Dayton Daily News …
ESPN:
Sabathia's agent to meet with Red Sox — The much-ballyhooed face-to-face meeting between Yankees GM Brian Cashman and CC Sabathia was finally scheduled to kick off Sunday night in Las Vegas, according to a baseball source with knowledge of the meeting. But it wasn't Cashman who requested this close encounter.
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Bob Nightengale / USA Today:
Baseball players, agents, GMs set to wheel, deal in Las Vegas — LAS VEGAS — Pete Rose, baseball's all-time hits leader, is signing autographs for cash at Caesars Palace. Manny Pacquiao, who knocked out Oscar De La Hoya, is hanging out at the MGM Grand. The national rodeo finals are in town.
John Perrotto / Unfiltered:
Winter meetings updates —Las Vegas isn't just a mecca for gamblers (my Florida minus-2 gambit against Florida State failed in college hopes tonight) but closers, too. Free-agent closers Francisco Rodriguez, Brian Fuentes and Trevor Hoffman are all in town to meet face-to-face with clubs …
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Troy E. Renck / Denver Post:
Rockies test Nats' interest in Taveras — LAS VEGAS — It is with a bit of irony that in a troubled economy, baseball arrived Sunday in a city nicknamed “Lost Wages.” — That doesn't mean the Rockies won't make a ripple in the Bellagio's 8-acre artificial lake.
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Mike DiGiovanna / Los Angeles Times:
Darren Oliver accepts Angels' offer of arbitration — Francisco Rodriguez, Mark Teixeira and Jon Garland turn down arbitration, as do Manny Ramirez, Derek Lowe and Casey Blake of the Dodgers. — Darren Oliver has decided to accept the Angels' offer of arbitration, his agent said Sunday night …
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Mike DiGiovanna / Los Angeles Times:Angels may need to decide soon between Mark Teixeira and CC Sabathia
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Joe Strauss / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
St. Louis Cardinals won't pursue Jake Peavy — The Cardinals now intend to retain second baseman Adam Kennedy (7) rather than trade him. Kennedy says his “gut feel” is that he will be back in St. Louis. (Scott Boehm/Getty Images) — ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
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Gordon Wittenmyer / Chicago Sun Times:
Peavy deal not imminent — But sources expect Cubs to acquire ‘07 Cy winner eventually — LAS VEGAS — The Cubs’ chances of acquiring former Cy Young Award winner Jake Peavy from the San Diego Padres appeared to improve Sunday after both teams arrived at the Bellagio Hotel on the eve of the winter meetings.
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Nick Cafardo / Boston Globe:
Las Vegas dealers — Milwaukee Brewers general manager Doug Melvin runs a baseball team in middle America. The economy is tough, yet he waits to hear whether CC Sabathia will accept their $100 million offer or whether he'll have to move on to Plan B. — As baseball's winter meetings …
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Adam McCalvy / MLB.com:
CC, Sheets, Shouse decline arbitration — All three hurlers looking for multiyear deals on open market — LAS VEGAS — There were no surprises for the Brewers on Sunday, when free-agent pitchers CC Sabathia, Ben Sheets and Brian Shouse all declined the club's offer of arbitration.
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Jon Paul Morosi / Detroit Free Press:
Tigers and Rangers making significant progress on possible trade — LAS VEGAS - The Tigers and Texas Rangers have made significant progress toward a trade that would send catcher Gerald Laird to Detroit and pitching prospect Guillermo Moscoso to the Rangers. — It's not clear if the Tigers would include other prospects in the deal.
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Jim Street / MLB.com:
Mariners tab Cockrell as hitting coach — LAS VEGAS — When he picked up the telephone that was ringing inside his Colorado Springs home last week, Alan Cockrell had no idea it was a call that would get him back to the Major Leagues. — After two seasons as the Rockies hitting coach …
