Fantasy Baseball News:Meetings update: Nothing doing for Rays - yet anyway
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Baseball news and updates -The latest news on the teams, players, games, playoff prospects, injury reports and more.Rays officials have been working and talking nearly around the clock - and have both free agent and trade offers extended - but were not close to any deals as of early Tuesday evening.
"We’ve continued dialogue with a [...]
Baseball News:Meetings update: Minor-league deals with Miranda, Mangini, Nunez, Orta
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Baseball news and updates -The latest news on the teams, players, games, playoff prospects, injury reports and more.The Rays made some news today, announcing the signing of four players to minor-league contracts with invites to spring training.
1B Juan Miranda would appear to be the most interesting, as he played in the majors at some [...]
Latest Baseball News:Meetings update: Nats say nothing new on Upton
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Baseball news and updates -The latest news on the teams, players, games, playoff prospects, injury reports and more.In the absence of any new rumors and a decision by Albetr Pujols, there has been some renewed chatter today about the Nationals long-standing interest in Rays CF B.J. Upton.
It created enough of a buzz that even people in [...]
Baseball Sports News:Tuesday meetings update: Pujols chatter abounds
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Get up-to-the minute results from all the action in Major League Baseball, analysis and cutting edge commentary, as well as fun and interesting interactive features. Also features complete coverage of the steroids in baseball controversy.It’s been a slow-starting morning here at the winter meetings as the GMs were all in an MLB meeting this morning, [...]
The Baseball News:Meetings update: Willingham among rumors
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Baseball news and updates -The latest news on the teams, players, games, playoff prospects, injury reports and more.UPDATE, 7:25: The Rays are in on Willingham, who would serve as a DH and extra outfielder, but there is no sense anything is imminent. The level of competition is of course key. … Friedman said overall, "It’s been [...]
Fantasy Baseball News:Meetings update: Transcript of Maddon media session
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Maddon with his new brown hair, talking in the meda room. Photo by Marc Topkin.
Here is the MLB-provided transcript of Rays manager Joe Maddon’s 30-minute session with the media on Monday:
Q. Could you kind of just contrast how you look going into [...]
Latest Baseball News:Meetings update: Rays lose 2 minor-leaguers
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Baseball news and updates -The latest news on the teams, players, games, playoff prospects, injury reports and more.The Rule 5 draft relatively uneventful for the Rays, as they didn’t make any picks and they lost two players in the minor-league portion: C Gerardo Olivares was taken by Boston in the AAA draft, INF Matt Sweeney by [...]
The Baseball News:Pujols leaves Cards for Angels, 0M over 10 years
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Baseball news and updates -The latest news on the teams, players, games, playoff prospects, injury reports and more.Albert Pujols made a surprising decision and agreed to a 10-year, 0-million deal with the Angels rather than finish his career with the Cardinals. That’s not good news for the Rays, who face the Angels 10 times [...]
Latest Baseball News:Thursday meetings update: Rule 5, and out
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Baseball news and updates -The latest news on the teams, players, games, playoff prospects, injury reports and more.Baseball’s winter meetings wrap up around noon today, with the possibility that the biggest news today could be the Rule 5 draft of minor-league players not on 40-man roster.
The Rays have the 24th pick, and an open [...]
Fantasy Baseball News:Meetings update: Is Carlos Pena a possibility
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Baseball news and updates -The latest news on the teams, players, games, playoff prospects, injury reports and more.The Rays are looking to improve their offense without diminishing their defense, and would like a lefthanded hitting first baseman.
That all makes it sound like bringing back Carlos Pena would be a good fit.
But from what agent Scott [...]