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NewsJon Paul Morosi is a reporter for MLB.com and MLB Network. He has also covered baseball for FOX Sports, the Detroit Free Press, and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
 | The East divisions are the center of the starting-pitching market this offseason. The Yankees and Nationals are two large-market teams known to be looking for rotation help, and their neighbors are interested, too.
More»Morosi talks Nationals' pitching needs in free agency |
 | CC Sabathia and Brett Gardner returned to the Bronx, the Mariners and Rays consummated yet another trade and player agents met with club officials to gauge valuations in a market headlined by Bryce Harper, Manny Machado and Patrick Corbin.
More»All of the latest news from the GM meetings |
 | Farhan Zaidi has been the Giants' president of baseball operations for all of one day, so it's a little too soon to know if he's ready to spend more than $300 million on Bryce Harper. But a number of clues suggest that he isn't.
More»Haft on Zaidi's duties after taking Giants job |
 | MLB general managers rarely announce the start of a rebuild in public. Rick Hahn did so in 2016. On Tuesday, Hahn made a much more upbeat declaration.
More»Merkin on White Sox interest in Harper, Machado |
 | One player agent observed Monday evening that conversations with clubs are more realistic now than is customary at this early point in the offseason. For the first time in recent memory, the industry is questioning its predisposition to proceed slowly in November.
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 | Every August, baseball fans listen to arcane explanations of how revocable trade waivers differ from irrevocable outright waivers. That tradition may end soon.
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 | After months (if not years) of speculation, the baseball industry this week will begin answering a momentous two-part question. Which teams will seriously pursue free agents Bryce Harper and Manny Machado?
More»Morosi on teams targeting Harper and Machado |
 | Over the past several days, Manny Machado scored the winning run in the 13th inning of a National League Championship Series game, told Ken Rosenthal that hustling to first base is not his "cup of tea," slid impermissibly into second base, and was described as "a dirty player" by the presumptive National League MVP Award winner. Will fresh evidence of Machado's flaws -- particularly his admission to Rosenthal that he should "[give] a little more effort" on the field -- cost him in free agency this offseason?
More» Machado, Aguilar argue, later makeup |
 | Many baseball observers reacted with curiosity this week, following an MLB.com report that the Angels have administered two-hour written tests to managerial candidates during interviews this month.
More»Morosi discusses candidates for Angels' new manager |
 | When National League baseball returned to New York with the expansion Mets nearly 60 years ago, the team's colors -- blue and orange -- were chosen in tribute to the Dodgers and Giants, their NL forebears who moved to the West Coast several years before. Now, the Mets and Giants are linked once more, through parallel searches for new chief executives of baseball operations that are certain to dominate off-field industry conversation over the coming weeks.
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 | Monday night, a soulful crowd of 19,711 gathered at Comerica Park in Detroit to remind Justin Verlander of his appointment with them -- year and date to be determined -- in what felt like a dress rehearsal for his own Hall of Fame homecoming.
More» Verlander on returning to Detroit |
 | Josh Donaldson could be traded by the Blue Jays before Friday's midnight ET deadline to be eligible for postseason rosters and, sources tell MLB.com's Jon Paul Morosi, St. Louis is a possible landing spot.
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 | The Nationals have traded Daniel Murphy, Matt Adams, Shawn Kelley and Brandon Kintzler over the past month, and sources say at least one more move is expected before Friday night's deadline to set postseason rosters.
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 | The courtship of Shohei Ohtani captivated Major League Baseball last offseason, as numerous teams' plans remained in suspense until the two-way phenom announced that he would sign with the Angels on Dec. 8.
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 | Among veteran outfielders drawing interest, Andrew McCutchen may be a stronger trade candidate than Adam Jones in the hours leading up to Tuesday's 4 p.m. ET non-waiver Trade Deadline. The Yankees, Phillies and Indians have varying levels of interest in acquiring the 31-year-old former National League Most Valuable Player Award winner, sources said on Monday.
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 | With less than 24 hours remaining before the non-waiver Trade Deadline, six teams remain involved in the pursuit of Rays right-hander Chris Archer, one source told MLB.com on Monday.
More»Rosenthal on where Archer could be traded |
 | The Indians and Nationals have communicated recently regarding a possible Bryce Harper trade, sources told MLB.com on Monday, but the discussions have yet to gather momentum.
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 | The Braves and Rangers have discussed a trade that would send Adrian Beltre to Atlanta, sources said on Monday, but it's unclear if there's enough momentum to complete a deal before Tuesday's 4 p.m. ET non-waiver Trade Deadline.
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 | Alex Anthopoulos was the general manager in Toronto when the Blue Jays selected Marcus Stroman in the first round of the 2012 MLB Draft, when Stroman made his Major League debut less than two years later, and when the right-hander started the decisive fifth game of the 2015 American League Division Series.
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 | The Rays aren't under any pressure to trade Chris Archer, and they say they'll only do so if they love the return.
More» Morosi reports on Archer, Hamels |
