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Bill Shaikin / Los Angeles Times:
Steven Cohen, Dodgers bidder, may buy a piece of the Mets — The billionaire investor, in the running for purchase of the Dodgers, is on the verge of buying a share of the Mets. If he were to buy the Dodgers, he would have sell any interest in the Mets. — Billionaire investor Steven Cohen …
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Matthew Cerrone / MetsBlog.com:
Billionaire Steve Cohen buying a share in Mets — Billionaire investor Steve Cohen, who is in the running to purchase of the Dodgers, is close to buying a $20 million share of the Mets, Bill Shaikin reports in the LA Times. — “If Cohen were to buy the Dodgers, he would have to sell his stake in the Mets,” Shaikin says.
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Phil Rogers / Chicago Tribune:
Power rankings: No. 15 Blue Jays — Blue Jays are just 1 blockbuster trade away (think Votto) — Joey Votto hits a home run. (Harry E. Walker / MCT Photo) — On Baseball — No. 15 Blue Jays: 16th in a series counting down to spring training. Next: Dodgers. — One more year, two at the most.
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Steve Keating / Reuters:
Cordero Agrees to One-Year Deal With Blue Jays — (Reuters) - The Toronto Blue Jays continued to bolster their bullpen, agreeing to a one-year $4.5 million deal with veteran reliever Francisco Cordero, the Major League Baseball team said on Wednesday. — A three-time All-Star …
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Gordon Edes / ESPN:
Source: Red Sox still have chance with Oswalt — BOSTON — After indicating late Friday night that pitcher Roy Oswalt was signing with the St. Louis Cardinals “soon,” the same major league source acknowledged Wednesday that Oswalt had not yet made a decision and that the Red Sox still “had a great chance” of signing him.
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Gordon Edes / ESPN:
Source: Red Sox likely out on pitcher Jackson
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Evan Drellich / MLB.com:
Sox prepping for Papi, Aceves arbitration cases
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Boston Globe and Over the Monster
A.J. Daulerio / Deadspin:
Dear Brian Cashman, I Am Wearing Your Pajama Pants In Your Mistress's Living Room — Back in October, Deadspin acquired photos that showed Brian Cashman, general manager of the Yankees, meeting with an alleged girlfriend in February 2009. Soon after that story ran, we were tipped off that Cashman …
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Peter Botte / NY Daily News:
Yankees' Mark Teixeira is set to lay it down this year like never before — Switch-hittter batted a careeer-worst .224 from left side in 2011 — At the Munson awards (l. to r.) Mets pitcher R.A. Dickey, Yankees 1B Mark Teixeira, Diana Munson, former NBA center Dikembe Mutombo …
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Mike Mazzeo / ESPN:
Mark Teixeira ... $180 million bunter?
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BBTF's Baseball Primer …, FanGraphs Baseball, The Yankee Analysts and HardballTalk
Matthew Cerrone / MetsBlog.com:
Mets still looking for left-handed bat — The Mets are still interested in a left-handed hitting outfielder, CBSSports.com's Jon Heyman said last night on Twitter. — According to Heyman, at present, “the team appears to be trying to scrounge up the money.”
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Dan Lependorf / Hardball Times:
How are wins, attendance and payroll all related? — “...there are rich teams and there are poor teams. Then there's fifty feet of crap. And then there's us.” — Moneyball (2011) — The release of Moneyball helped bring baseball economics into the mainstream.
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Tony Jackson / ESPN:
Dodgers' Loney won't face charges from crash — Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman James Loney won't face any criminal charges resulting from a Nov. 14 traffic accident in which he was briefly detained on suspicion of DUI, a spokesman for the Los Angeles City Attorney's office confirmed on Wednesday.
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TMZ.com and Yahoo! Sports
Sports Illustrated:
From games to gaming, Schilling on, well, pretty much everything … To Curt Schilling, no endeavor is appealing unless “I have a chance to be better than anyone else in the world.” Run a marathon? Forget it. The idea of being halfway through a course when the winner crosses the finishes line, he said, holds no interest for him.
Greg Johns / MLB.com:
Mariners sign veteran Guillen to Minors deal — Three-time All-Star to compete for third base, outfield job — SEATTLE — Veteran infielder Carlos Guillen, who began his career with the Mariners from 1998-2003, signed a Minor League deal with Seattle on Wednesday that includes an invitation to Major League camp.
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Bob Nightengale / USA Today:
Rangers: No Fielder, but Darvish joins team — The Texas Rangers were one strike away from winning the World Series and, perhaps, one injury away from landing the man who would have made them the favorites for a return trip. — Rangers general manager Jon Daniels had serious discussions …
