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6:20 PM ET, January 25, 2012

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Ben Badler / Baseball America:
MLB Declares Yoenis Cespedes A Free Agent  —  The bidding for Yoenis Cespedes can begin.  —  Major League Baseball informed teams today that Cespedes, a 26-year-old Cuban outfielder, is now a free agent.  Cespedes recently received his Dominican residency, a prerequisite for MLB to declare …
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Joe Frisaro / The Fish Pond:
Marlins primed to bid for Cespedes  —  Cuban sensation Yoenis Cespedes is on the verge of becoming a free agent, and the Marlins are expected to make a strong push for the 26-year-old outfielder.  —  Cespedes has established residency in the Dominican Republic, which had kept him in a holding pattern for months.
Discussion: MLB Rumors and HardballTalk
Associated Press:
Cuban slugger Cespedes gains D.R. residency
Discussion: baseballmusings.com
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T.R. Sullivan / MLB.com:
Teams said to have interest in Rangers' Uehara  —  ARLINGTON — The Rangers are still drawing considerable interest from other teams in reliever Koji Uehara, according to a Major League source.  —  A trade to the Blue Jays fell through when Uehara exercised his no-trade clause, and the Orioles have shown interest.
Discussion: MLB Rumors
Gregor Chisholm / MLB.com:
Cordero signs one-year deal with Blue Jays
Bill Ladson / MLB.com:
Nationals introduce Gio at news conference  —  WASHINGTON — The Nationals introduced Gio Gonzalez to the local media at Nationals Park on Wednesday afternoon.  The news conference came a little over a month after they acquired the left-hander from the Athletics in exchange …
Discussion: Federal Baseball
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Bill Ladson / MLB.com:
Nationals miss out in Fielder sweepstakes
Discussion: Federal Baseball
Andy Martino / NY Daily News:
St. Louis Cardinals' Carlos Beltran tells Met fans: Time to get over 2006 and move on  —  New Cardinal says he has moved on from NLCS failure  —  Carlos Beltran strikes out to end Mets hopes in Game 7 of NLCS against Cardinals, and now that he has joined St. Louis he says it's time for fans to get over it.
Ben Nicholson-Smith / MLB Rumors:
Reds, Masset Sign Extension  —  The Reds signed arbitration eligible reliever Nick Masset to a two-year extension, the team announced (on Twitter).  As MLBTR's Arbitration Tracker shows, Masset had filed for a $2.9MM salary through arbitration, while the Reds had countered with $2.1MM.
Craig Calcaterra / HardballTalk:
Jose Bautista's drug testing seems something less than random  —  It's from the Dominican newspaper Hoy.  And because I forgot all that Spanish I knew 20 years ago, I'm using Google translate to read it.  —  But the upshot: Bautista spoke at a banquet the other night and noted that in the past two years …
Ben Nicholson-Smith / MLB Rumors:
Latest On Roy Oswalt  —  4:35pm: There's mutual interest between the Rangers and Oswalt, but for him to be a fit, it'd have to be on Texas' terms, Heyman tweets.  —  1:33pm: The Red Sox made Oswalt an offer, but are unsure of his interest level, since he has yet to accept, Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com tweets.
Evan Drellich / MLB.com:
Orioles sign Andino to avoid arbitration  —  One-year deal with infielder reportedly worth $1.3 million  —  The Orioles' number of potential arbitration cases dropped to three on Wednesday with the signing of infielder Robert Andino.  —  Andino, 27, posted a .263 average with a .327 …
Discussion: Yahoo! Sports
The Knobler Blog:
Red Sox like Oswalt, but does he like them?  —  The Red Sox like Roy Oswalt.  But is the feeling mutual?  —  The Sox, sources say, have made a significant offer to the free-agent right-hander.  Oswalt has yet to accept, raising some doubt about his interest in going to Boston.
Gil Lebreton / Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
Healthy Hamilton worth more than Prince's ransom  —  Sometimes the best deal is the one you don't make.  —  I forget the name of the general manager who originally uttered that oft-quoted adage.  —  I often wonder, though, what that GM thought when he looked at the lineup card in July and saw Chris Shelton listed at first base.
Adam McCalvy / Brew Beat:
GM Melvin: Fielder was the key to Brewers' resurgence  —  Here's what Brewers general manager Doug Melvin had to say about Prince Fielder signing with the Tigers:  —  “People were saying, 'What does [Boras] have?  He doesn't have any offers,'” Melvin said, “Whatever.  You only have to have one team, two teams involved.
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