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Choate, 5 others get minor league deals with Rays (AP)Left-handed reliever Randy Choate was among six players who agreed to minor league contracts with the Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday. Choate, right-hander Julio DePaula, catcher Michel Hernandez, infielder Ray Olmedo and outfielders Jon Weber and Ray Sadler also received invitations to major league spring training with the AL champions.
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Rays Team Report (Yahoo! Sports)
Most managers would be a little uncomfortable if their closer underwent back surgery in the offseason. Not Joe Maddon. But as we learned last season, Maddon isn't your father's manager.
Maddon used rookie David Price to close out Game 7 of the American League Championship Series against the Red Sox even though Price has never been used in that role during his brief big-league career.
Dan Wheeler saved 13 games in 2008 while filling in for closer Troy Percival during Percival's three trips to the disabled list. Maddon also used J.P. Howell, Grant Balfour and the departed Trever Miller to close games. For Maddon, it is more about the matchup than the bulldog mentality closers are supposed to have, so that's why he went with Price to get the biggest outs in team...
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Cubs employ the Bradley method (Yahoo! Sports)Chicago's pursuit began in secret at the GM meetings and concluded with a three-year, $30 million deal.
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Insider information, around the horn (Yahoo! Sports)Hot stove nuggets about free agents from Abreu to Wolf, including a certain Japanese pitcher.
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Pat Burrell agrees to $16M, 2-year deal with Rays (AP)
Pat Burrell went from one World Series team to the other. The Tampa Bay Rays added a big bat to the middle of their lineup, agreeing Monday on a $16 million, two-year contract with Burrell. The 32-year-old slugger spent the past nine seasons with the Philadelphia Phillies, who defeated the Rays in the World Series a little more than two months ago.
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Rays sign OF Burrell to two-year contract (PA SportsTicker)After winning a World Series in Philadelphia last season, left fielder Pat Burrell is joining the team the Phillies defeated to win the title.
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Report: Rays sign ex-Phillie Pat Burrell to 2-year deal (Yahoo! Sports) The Tampa Bay Rays have finalized a two-year deal with former Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Pat Burrell...
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Rays will keep up with the Yankees in their own way (SportingNews.com) Yes, the Tampa Bay Rays are well aware of the New York Yankees' drunken-sailor spending spree during this...
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Manny maneuvering intensifies (Yahoo! Sports)Cutting ties with Andruw Jones could help the Dodgers afford Manny Ramirez. The Giants loom as competition.
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Yanks, Tigers, Tribe most improved heading into 2009 (Yahoo! Sports)Here's the consensus from a half-dozen scouts, general managers, and other officials concerning which teams...
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Former dump or dog track could be new Rays stadium (AP)A greyhound racing track and a former landfill are among seven suggested sites for a new Tampa Bay Rays ballpark. Each possible location is on the St. Petersburg side of the Tampa Bay. The current Tropicana Field area made the list, as did Progress Energy Park, a downtown spring-training stadium the team had hoped to develop into a major league stadium.
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Rays sign reliever Joe Nelson (AP)Right-handed reliever Joe Nelson signed a $1.3 million, one-year contract with the AL champion Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday. Nelson, who agreed to terms last week, was 3-1 with one save in 59 appearances for the Florida Marlins last season. His 2.00 ERA was third-best among NL relievers behind Hong-Chih Kuo's 1.69 and Brad Lidge's 1.95.
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Rays sign RHP Nelson to one-year deal (PA SportsTicker)The Tampa Bay Rays added another arm to their bullpen Tuesday, signing righthander Joe Nelson to a one-year contract.
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Interest in ex-Angel Garret Anderson picks up (Yahoo! Sports)The Oakland A's and Tampa Bay Rays have surfaced in various media outlets as possible destinations for Garret...
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The Year of Big League Stew 2008: Bottoms up, folks (Yahoo! Sports) Born on a cold Chicago morning in early February, Big League Stew was the third blog to pop out of that magical...
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’08 MLB stories: Philly (and rain) reigns (Yahoo! Sports)From exploding bats to imploding legends, baseball was filled with compelling stories, if not transcendent ones.
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Selig says there is a competitive balance in MLB (Yahoo! Sports) For the Commissioner, the triumph of the Tampa Bay Rays was one of the best things that happened in the 2008...
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Yankees have no equal -- in spending, not winning (AP)The Yankees have no equal -- in spending, not in winning. Even before their latest spending spree, the Yankees finished 2008 with a record payroll of $222.5 million, according to figures sent to clubs in recent days by the commissioner's office. The $75 million gap between the Yankees and the next-highest spender, the Boston Red Sox ($147.1 million), was more than the payroll of nine teams.
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Yankees are stealth Bombers, get Teixeira (Yahoo! Sports)Despite hanging on the periphery of bidding for weeks, New York adds the slugger to impressive free-agent haul.
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Rays could add Giambi, Bradley, Burrell or Dunn to mix (Yahoo! Sports)It look as if the Tampa Bay Rays will add Jason Giambi, Milton Bradley, Adam Dunn or Pat Burrell.
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Despite latest spending spree, Yankees still third best in A.L. East (SportingNews.com)The Yankees have made their typical big-splash free agent signings this offseason. But it still won't be enough to get them past the Red Sox and Rays in the A.L. East.
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OF Jonny Gomes becomes free agent (AP)The Tampa Bay Rays decided against offering Jonny Gomes a contract for next season, making the outfielder a free agent Friday. Gomes batted .182 with eight homers and 21 RBIs in 77 games this year as the Rays won the AL pennant. He was optioned to the Triple-A Durham in August and recalled in September.
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Rays non-tender OF Gomes (PA SportsTicker)The Tampa Bay Rays on Friday did not tender a contract for 2009 to outfielder-designated hitter Jonny Gomes.
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With righthander Burnett, Yankees again thumb nose at baseball (SportingNews.com)What economic trouble? For the Yankees, money -- and lots of it -- is the means to an end. The money is abundant; the end is winning another World Series at all cost.
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Year after Mitchell Report, MLB tries to move on (AP)Headlines about steroids are down, and so are home runs. One year later, the stigma of the Mitchell Report has worn off for most players and baseball is convinced it has moved on. But has there been a permanent change, with less reliance on big boppers and greater focus on small ball, the kind played by the AL champion Tampa Bay Rays?
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NY, NY: Yankees and Mets big winners at meetings (AP)Two teams from New York took over the town at baseball's winter meetings. It helps to arrive in Vegas carrying plenty of cash. As baseball's annual swap session broke up Thursday, the boys from the Big Apple went home big winners. Highlighting a hectic week, the Yankees landed pitching prize CC Sabathia while the Mets solidified their previously wretched bullpen with All-Star relievers Francisco...
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Rule 5 Report (RotoWire)
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Teixeira negotiations continue to escalate (Yahoo! Sports)Agent Scott Boras is leveraging the bidders against one another. Angels are among those getting uncomfortable.
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Swap of center fielders hits a snag (Yahoo! Sports)Brewers' Mike Cameron appeared bound for New York for Melky Cabrera, but not so fast.
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