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Ed Price / Fanhouse MLB Blog:
Source: Rangers to Sign Brandon Webb, Pending Physical — Having missed out on re-signing Cliff Lee, the Rangers have come to a tentative agreement to sign another former Cy Young Award winner, Brandon Webb, according to a major-league source. — Reached by text message, agent Jonathan Maurer declined comment.
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George A. King III / New York Post:
Yankees look at empty shelves trying to finish roster — The Rangers beat the Yankees in the ALCS, then watched Cliff Lee jilt both the Yankees and themselves. — Yet, the Rangers still have the Yankees on their minds. The AL champs have an interest in free agent pitcher Brandon Webb …
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MLB Rumors, Amazin' Avenue, HardballTalk and River Avenue Blues
Jayson Stark / MLB:
Sources: Brandon Webb chase thins — The Chicago Cubs and Washington Nationals are no longer in the running to sign free-agent pitcher Brandon Webb, according to sources who have spoken with those two clubs. And that means, those sources say, that Webb is now choosing between two teams …
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ESPN, Red Reporter, Bleed Cubbie Blue, MLB Rumors and The Crawfish Boxes
Nick Piecoro / Arizona Republic:
Brandon Webb reportedly joining Texas Rangers — Right-hander Brandon Webb's days with the Diamondbacks appeared to come to an end Sunday as multiple reports indicated that he had agreed to a one-year, incentive-laden deal with the Texas Rangers. — Webb anchored the Diamondbacks rotation …
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Capitol Punishment, Baseball Time in Arlington and NESN.com
Fox Sports:
Source: Webb reaches deal with Rangers — Brandon Webb has pitched only four innings the past two seasons. — Ken Rosenthal has been the senior baseball writer for FOXSports.com since August 2005. He appears weekly on MLB on FOX. Follow him on Twitter. — For free-agent right-hander Brandon Webb, the choice wasn't easy.
Steve Adams / MLB Rumors:
Rangers Reach Agreement With Brandon Webb — MONDAY, 9:44am: Webb's deal is worth $3MM plus incentives, tweets ESPN's Buster Olney. Olney's colleague Jerry Crasnick tweets that the incentives could bring the total to $8-10MM. — SUNDAY, 3:06pm: The Rangers and Brandon Webb have reached an agreement …
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T.R. Sullivan / MLB.com:
Webb agrees to one-year deal with Rangers
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The Nationals Enquirer
Marc Topkin / St. Petersburg Times:
Tampa Bay Rays about to resume filling roster holes — Now that that shopping season is over, expect the Rays to get busy sifting through the 150 or so free agents left for bargains and low-risk gambles. — Here's a quick look at what they've done and what holes remain:
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School of Roch and MLB Rumors
CSNPhilly.com:
Source: Phils, reliever Romero agree to terms — The Phillies have agreed to terms with reliever J.C. Romero, a source has told CSN's Leslie Gudel. — Shortly after last season the Phils declined to exercise Romero's $4.5 million contract option for 2011, but they needed a lefty in the bullpen …
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Nick Cafardo / Boston Globe:
Big 10 conference yields some early winners and losers — We asked 10 baseball people — managers, coaches, general managers, and scouts — to select the 10 most significant offseason moves/non-moves that could shift the balance of power. Here's what they came up with:
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HardballTalk, MetsBlog.com, YFSF and JSOnline
Enrique Rojas / MLB:
Source: Octavio Dotel, Toronto deal near — ORLANDO — Reliever Octavio Dotel and the Toronto Blue Jays are close to agreeing on a one-year contract, a source with knowledge of the negotiations said Sunday. — The deal would be almost identical to Dotel's $3.2 million base salary in 2010 …
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Corey Brock / MLB.com:
Cancer-free, Roberts is smiling once again — SAN DIEGO — The prescribed method toward good health, toward making sure his body was rid of Hodgkin's lymphoma once and for all, was a grueling round of chemotherapy and radiation last summer that only briefly robbed Dave Roberts of one of his truly greatest assets.
Peter Gammons / MLB.com:
Bagwell deserves Hall of Fame call — Jeff Bagwell belongs in the Hall of Fame. Not on the 10th time on the ballot — he belongs on the podium in Cooperstown this summer making his characteristically modest speech before Henry Aaron, Stan Musial, Willie Mays, Tom Seaver, Frank Robinson, Joe Morgan, et al.
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