ESPN.com is reporting that the Florida Marlins have come to terms with shortstop Hanley Ramirez on a six year extension reportedly worth $70 million.
Ramirez who has played absolutely lights out since entering the big leagues and winning the Rookie of the Year award in 2006, would have been eligible for arbitration and would have undoubtedly [...]

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According to multiple sources (including Peter Gammons) the Detroit Tigers have ironed out a trade with the Florida Marlins that will bring them Miguel Cabrera and Dontrelle Willis In return, the Marlins will be getting three minor league prospects as well as Cameron Maybin, Andrew Miller, and catcher Mike Rabelo.
As mentioned earlier, Maybin and [...]

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Conventional wisdom has it that the floodgate of trades will open once Santana and Cabrera have been dealt. But in a sign of just how difficult it has become to package a trade involving such big name players, neither deal has materialized and the rumors (and the clubs involved) seem to change almost hourly. In [...]

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Newsday.com is reporting that the New York Yankees already have a short list of candidates they’d like to see succeed Alex Rodriquez at third base. According to Ken Davidoff the list includes
“Mike Lowell and, as trade possibilities, Seattle’s Adrian Beltre and Florida’s Miguel Cabrera. St. Louis’ Scott Rolen is a dark-horse candidate.”
Obviously the Lowell option [...]

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As if the Hot Stove hasn’t been exciting enough already so far, tomorrow marks the start of the GM meetings in Florida. With such a limited class of free agents this year, several teams are going to be forced to get creative in the trade market. When you throw in the fact that one of [...]

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