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• The National Leagues untouchables

  
  SportingNews.com — Authority: 795
  Ryan Fagan and Stan McNeal PITTSBURGH PIRATES: 3B Pedro Alvarez Pedro Alvarezs stats in his first professional season — .288 average, 27 homers and 95 RBIs in 126 games at Advanced A and Class AA — helped validate the franchise-altering salary the Pirates gave him in 2008. ...
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• Odds & Ends: Valverde, Phillies, Hanrahan

  
  MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com — Authority: 744
  Just because its Christmas Eve doesnt mean the hot stove is taking a holiday. Lets check out some links.... Within todays blog entry, ESPN.coms Buster Olney notes that none of the remaining teams in need of a closer (Florida, Pittsburgh, and Detroit) have the payroll flexibility to spend $8-10MM on Jose Valverde ...
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• Capps agrees to one-year deal with Nationals

  
  SportingNews.com — Authority: 795
  Sporting News staff reports The Nationals agreed to a one-year deal with free agent reliever Matt Capps early this morning, according to the teams website.
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• Pirates Talking To Kevin Gregg

  
  MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com — Authority: 744
  The Pirates have had multiple conversations with free agent reliever Kevin Gregg , writes Dejan Kovacevic of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette .  Last year for the Cubs, Gregg posted a 4.72 ERA and 9.3 K/9 in 72 games.  The 31-year-old was the Cubs closer until mid-season, when the mantle was given to Carlos ...
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• Odds & Ends: Rangers, Lackey, Yankees

  
  MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com — Authority: 744
  Another round of Wednesday links: The group selected to purchase the Rangers could be in financial trouble, says Craig Calcaterra of NBC Sports . Alden Gonzalez of MLB.com thinks that Mark DeRosa could become more valuable to suitors after Matt Holliday and Jason Bay sign, with few other big bats ...
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• Pirates sign lefty Taschner to minor league deal

  
  SportingNews.com — Authority: 795
  PITTSBURGH -- Left-handed reliever Jack Taschner has signed a minor league contract with the Pittsburgh Pirates and will be invited to spring training.
  3 days ago

• Pirates Extend Offer To Octavio Dotel

  
  MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com — Authority: 744
  The Pittsburgh Pirates have made Octavio Dotel an offer to be their closer, according to Craig Calcaterra of NBC Sports . Calcaterra writes that the offer is worth about $3MM, plus incentives for games finished. Dotel has posted solid numbers over the past two seasons in a setup role for the White Sox, but has not ...
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• Pirates Sign Jack Taschner

  
  MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com — Authority: 744
  The Pirates have signed Jack Taschner to a minor league deal, according to Jayson Stark of ESPN.com . The lefty will earn $835K if he makes the Pirates opening day roster and could earn up to $465K more in incentives based on appearances. Taschner allowed 38 hits and 20 walks in 29.1 innings for the Phillies last ...
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• Decade Debate: Saddest Franchises

  
  The Scores Report - The National Sports Blog — Authority: 522
  The “informal” defnition of sad is “pathetically inadequate or unfashionable.” In sports, a sad franchise is one that has failed repeatedly to have any type of sustainable success. As part of our ongoing Decade Debate series, we chose the saddest franchise for the NFL, NBA and MLB, along with a ...
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• Matt Capps to choose between Cubs, Nationals on Wednesday

  
  SportingNews.com — Authority: 795
  Sporting News staff reports Free-agent reliever Matt Capps is contemplating whether to sign with the Washington Nationals or Chicago Cubs.
  4 days ago

• Pittsburgh Pirates All-Decade Team

  
  Inside Pittsburgh Sports — Authority: 486
  By John Perrotto Looking back at the Pirates in the 2000s, as the decade comes to a close, there have been some positives for the franchise. For one, they opened PNC Park in 2001 and it is generally considered the best facility in the major leagues. Secondly, uh, secondly, well there really is no [...]
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• Odds & Ends: Capps, Duchscherer, Chapman

  
  MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com — Authority: 744
  Some links for your Tuesday morning... The Yankees were the only team to pay the luxury tax this season. Their $226MM payroll cost them nearly $26MM in luxury tax, according to the AP (via the Star Ledger). Mark Feinsand of the New York Daily News tweets that the Yanks trade of Melky Cabrera does not mean ...
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• The Cost of the 2009 World Series Is…

  
  Zell's Pinstripe Blog — Authority: 143
  Signing of Mark Teixeira, AJ Burnett, CC Sabathia: $423.5 million 2009 New York Yankees Payroll: $208,097,414 million Bringing the World Series Championship to New York: Priceless Cost of Priceless World Series: $25.69 million Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the cost of the Yankees 2009 run to the championship cost ...
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• The Stadium Shmadium Tour Returns

  
  MLB Hub - Where Baseball Season Never Ends — Authority: 155
  If you remember reading about how Matt Stairs is a total hoser then laughing your ass off at A Game of Centimeters back in April, then you are undoubtedly as excited as I am for the sequel. Stadium Shmadium Tour, Episode 2: Pittsburgh Pirates . I pretty much cant wait until March 10, 2010.
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• The Latest Pirates Buzz

  
  Inside Pittsburgh Sports — Authority: 486
  As soon as the Pirates non-tendered Matt Capps, 14-16 teams expressed interest in the Pirates former closer. When the Pirates tried to move Capps at the winter meetings there was no interest because teams knew that the Pirates were going to release him. Media leaks during the winter meetings played no factor in teams ...
  5 days ago

• From: Touching Base

  
  NY Daily News — Authority: 880
  The Pirates one-year, $775,000 deal with lefthander Javier Lopez is just the kind of thing that GM Neal Huntington needs to be doing to fill out his
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• Pirates 3B Alvarez focused on getting in shape

  
  Fantasy Sports | NFL Fantasy Football Draft Tips | Fantasy Baseball News | Fantasy Basketball Advice — Authority: 156
  Sporting News staff reports Pirates third base prospect Pedro Alvarez already has spent six weeks at the Athletes Performance Institute in Tempe, Ariz., a facility known for helping athletes better condition their bodies, th
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• Pirates 3B Alvarez focused on getting in shape

  
  SportingNews.com — Authority: 795
  Sporting News staff reports Pirates third base prospect Pedro Alvarez already has spent six weeks at the Athletes Performance Institute in Tempe, Ariz., a facility known for helping athletes better condition their bodies, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported. The Pirates were critical of Alvarezs ...
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• Christmas Letter 2009

  
  Carolyncholland's Weblog — Authority: 418
  CAROLYN’S COMPOSITIONS CHRISTMAS LETTER 2009      I began 2009 waiting for word about the New England Journal competition I had entered. The notification that someone else won extended my break from writing my novel.  I finally returned to writing, and have set up some writing goals for the first half of ...
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• Sidetracked: The Midwest’s Own Major Leaguer Trenni Kusnierek (1 of 2)

  
  The Sports Bank.Net — Authority: 546
  By: Melissa S. Wollering Cole Hamels just gave up a solo homer to Andre Ethier and it’s only the first.  It’s 63 degrees out, but he’s visibly sweating. Game 5 of the NLCS will do that to you. Trenni’s head is filled with stats. If she could just double-check his ERA and games pitched during the ’08 ...
  6 days ago

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