According to AZCentral.com, the Arizona Diamondbacks have made a 3-year offer worth a reported $27 million to free agent Japanese right-hander Hiroki Kuroda. Thanks to mlbtraderumors.com for the link.
The Seattle Mariners are still viewed as the favorite to land the coveted pitcher from Japan, but this offer, if true, serves as a bench mark for [...]
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With the winter meetings fast approaching, let’s talk about the one thing that has been looming over the baseball offseason: The Mitchell Report. Earlier reports had suggested that the study on steroid abuse within baseball led by former majority leader Senator George Mitchell could be released by the end of this year. Any potential free [...]
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According to the LA Times, GM Ned Coletti has stated that due to the high price of acquiring talent in the trade market this off-season, the Dodgers may be holding onto their blue chip prospects rather than making a run at an impact player, like Florida’s Miguel Cabrera or Baltimore’s Erik Bedard (As previously reported here [...]
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Finally some good Cardinals gossip, courtesy of Joe Strauss of StLToday.com.
The Cardinals main goal at the upcoming winter meetings will be to obtain a starting pitcher or two. In part because of ace Chris Carpenter’s health, St. Louis’ starting rotation was atrocious in 2007, going 48-72 with a miserable 5.04 era. Their 2008 rotation, as currently situated, [...]
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According to the LA Times, talks between the Dodgers and Orioles centering around Baltimore lefty Erik Bedard have stalled. Apparently the Orioles will wait and see how the Miguel Cabrera trade rumors unfold, as the prospects rumored in any Cabrera deal will be the prospects they would want from the Dodgers. (Probably Clayton Kershaw and [...]
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According to Espn.com’s Buster Olney, rival executives of the Chicago Cubs have stated that the team is open to trading their oft-injured star pitcher. It appears the Cubs would like to sign him to a 1-year deal with a vesting option for a second season rather than go through arbitration with him this winter, but it seems [...]
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Todd Zolecki of the Philadelphia Inquirer notes that the Phillies and Randy Wolf are now engaged in serious talks to join the rotation.
The Phillies remain puzzling to me….why?
Is Brett Myers in the rotation? Is he still closing? Nobody seems to know for sure.
Randy Wolf? I mean, he is allllriiiight. But he sports a mid 4 ERA [...]
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Gordon Edes of the Boston Globe is reporting that talks between the Twins and Red Sox are “intensifying” today.
What does this mean? A Santana package perhaps? Or a smaller deal involving a Twins mid-level prospect perhaps?
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Credit Mark Hale of the NY Post for getting some Mets rumors out there today. I was beginning to think Omar Minaya was sleeping after his Johnny Estrada deal.
Hale suggests that, like any other team, the Mets would only make a deal for Johan if they were able to negotiate a long-term contract first. In these “trade [...]
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