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Angels no longer trying to bring back Teixeira … The Los Angeles Angels withdrew their eight-year offer for free-agent first baseman Mark Teixeira on Sunday. — Angels vice president of communications Tim Mead confirmed an earlier ESPN report later Sunday night.
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Angels withdraw offer to Mark Teixeira — Tim Mead, the Angels' vice president of communications, confirmed a foxsports.com report that the team has withdrawn its offer to Mark Teixeira and is no longer pursuing the free-agent first baseman. — The Angels, according to General Manager Tony Reagins …
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Angels pull out of Teixeira chase — Club confirms it has withdrawn its eight-year contract offer — The Angels confirmed Sunday that they have pulled out of the bidding for free agent Mark Teixeira's services. Team spokesman Tim Mead said the club would have no further comment today.
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Angels pull out of Teixeira chase — Club confirms it has withdrawn its eight-year contract offer — The Mark Teixeira sweepstakes are now exclusively an East Coast derby. — The Angels, withdrawing their eight-year offer believed to be in the $160 million neighborhood …
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Yankees on fringes of Teixeira talks
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Yankees Keep Eye on Teixeira and Wait
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Creating a Market — Scott Boras called the Yankees about Mark Teixeira:
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Outlook positive for Tampa Bay Rays to sign a good free-agent hitter
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Talented teams of the '90s quite different than today — Should a sale go through, whoever buys the Padres from John Moores would be lucky to get a Padres club as talented as the one Moores bought in late 1994. — True, when Moores took control, the Padres were coming off a 47-70 season.
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Padres Sign Chris Britton — By Tim Dierkes [December 21 at 1:41pm CST] — We missed this one - apparently the Padres signed recently non-tendered reliever Chris Britton, according to Tom Krasovic of the San Diego Union-Tribune. The big righty will compete for the seventh-inning role in 2009.
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Source: Pirates, Doumit reach deal … The Pittsburgh Pirates have reached an agreement on a three-year deal with catcher Ryan Doumit that will take him through his salary arbitration years, a baseball source told ESPN.com. — The contract includes a club option that will take Doumit into free agency, the source said.
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Ex-Negro league star Carlos Santiago, 82, dies — SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Carlos Manuel Santiago, a star infielder in the Negro leagues during the 1940s, died Sunday. He was 82. — He died of cardiac failure at his home in Mayaguez, son Carlos Manuel Santiago Feliciano said.
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Olney: Market forces at work — Brian Fuentes began the offseason as, theoretically, the most second-most coveted reliever, after a season in which he earned 30 saves and accumulated a 2.73 ERA, and held left-handed batters to a .184 average, with 20 strikeouts in 49 at-bats.
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Melvin confirms interest in Looper — By Tom Haudricourt of the Journal Sentinel — I spoke to Brewers general manager Doug Melvin on the telephone today and he confirmed he has shown interest in free agent pitcher Braden Looper. — Melvin denied a Boston Globe report, however, that the Brewers “are close” to signing Looper.
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So Who's Got the Best Rotation in the AL East Now? — With the Yankees' signings of C.C. Sabathia and A.J. Burnett, many pundits are saying they now have the best starting rotation in the AL East. Let's use CAIRO to see if that's actually true or not. With all due respect to Baltimore and Toronto …
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Japanese team won't extend Valentine's contract after 2009 — TOKYO (AP) — The Chiba Lotte Marines have decided not to offer Bobby Valentine a contract extension after his current four-year deal expires at the end of 2009 season, the former New York Mets manager said Sunday.
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Fultz inks Minor League deal with Reds — Lefty reliever gets invite to Major League Spring Training camp — CINCINNATI — The Reds signed veteran left-handed reliever Aaron Fultz to a Minor League contract this weekend. The deal, according to an industry source, came with an invitation to big league camp at Spring Training.