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▪ Giants Sign Tim Lincecum To Two-Year Deal
The Giants and Tim Lincecum have agreed to a two-year, $40.5MM contract extension, avoiding arbitration with the two-time Cy Young Award winner. The contract became official once Lincecum passed his p... [continue]
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▪ AL Central Links: Indians, Fielder, Span, Thome
Happy birthday to right-hander Gavin Floyd, who is 29 years old today. With the number of Floyd trade rumors we've heard this winter, you wonder if this could be Floyd's last birthday as a member of t... [continue] |
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▪ Red Sox Notes: Edwin Jackson, Conor Jackson, Payroll
Some news items out of Fenway Park... The Red Sox weren't close to a deal with Edwin Jackson as of late Thursday evening, tweets Nick Cafardo of the Boston Globe. It was reported two days ago that the... [continue] |
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▪ Red Sox Sign John Maine
The Red Sox signed right-hander John Maine to a minor league contract, Steve DeShazo of the Fredericksburg Freelance-Star reports. Agent Rex Gary told DeShazo that the Red Sox will look at Maine as a ... [continue] |
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▪ AL West Notes: A?s, Oswalt, Hamilton, Mariners
The Athletics signed future Hall of Famer Goose Gossage on this date 20 years ago. The right-hander spent two seasons in Oakland, though he's better known for stints with the Yankees, White Sox and Pa... [continue] |
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▪ Introducing MLBTR's Extension Tracker
Contract extensions, especially for arbitration eligible players, are all about comparables. Position and service time are a couple of major factors for which players are often compared. This kind of ... [continue] |
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▪ 2012's Highest-Paid Arbitration Eligible Players
Arbitration eligible players may not get paid like free agents Albert Pujols and Prince Fielder, but the arbitration process can be lucrative, too. Many players have already doubled or tripled their 2... [continue] |
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▪ Rays Designate Russ Canzler For Assignment
The Rays designated Russ Canzler for assignment, Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times tweets. The move creates 40-man roster space for Jeff Keppinger, whose deal with the Rays became official today. Can... [continue] |
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▪ How The Yankees Can Bring Jeter Back To The Fold, Despite His Insane Contract Demands
Derek Jeter, coming off the worst year of his career, reportedly believes the Yankees should pay him $150 Million over the next six years. Not since Dr. Evil called for $1 Million from the government... [continue]
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▪ Second Annual Aggregate Top 100 Baseball Prospects
A popular feature from last year returns. Once again MLBscoop has collected the rankings of popular prospect opinion sites and averaged them out to give you a sense of a consensus top 100 prospects ... [continue] |
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▪ 2009 World Baseball Classic Already Better Than 2006
A tournament is always better when there are shocking upsets, and by that standard the 2009 World Baseball Classic has already surprised the initial WBC. The big story so far has been the Dutch defea... [continue] |
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▪ WBC Performance Gives China Something To Build On
The Chinese national baseball team was unmercifully put to the sword this morning by the South Koreans, in a 14-0 defeat that knocks China out of the World Baseball Classic. Regardless of emphatic na... [continue] |
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▪ Expansion Should Go Back On The MLB Menu, And Soon
It seems like only a few years ago that Major League Baseball was considering contraction, after two expansions totaling four new franchises in the 1990s. Baseball purists decried the dilution of the... [continue] |
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▪ World Baseball Classic Preview: Potential Australian Roster Pool
Australia has been cited as a prime area of emerging talent in the baseball world for the past decade, but the Aussies underperformed greatly at the 2006 World Baseball Classic. In 2009, they have be... [continue] |
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▪ A-Rod Should Not Be Allowed To Play For The Dominican
Reports today indicated that, like in the time before the 2006 World Baseball Classic, Alex Rodriguez is leaning towards representing the Dominican Republic at the 2009 WBC. The American-born son of ... [continue] |
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▪ World Baseball Classic Preview: Potential Panama Roster Pool
The inclusion of Panama among the 16 teams in the World Baseball Classic is based on the fact that the country has produced some significant talent in the past. 49 players have come from the Central ... [continue] |
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