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A day after signing 38-year-old Billy Wagner to close games in 2010, the Atlanta Braves signed another veteran reliever from the Boston Red Sox. Yesterday, the Braves signed 39-year-old Takashi Saito to a one-year, $3.2 million contract. Saito can earn an additional $2.3 million in incentives in 2010. Saito is expected to be the primary set-up man to Wagner in 2010. Saito has been pretty solid since coming to the United States in ...

If first you donÆt succeed, try, try, try, and try again. Boston Red Sox GM Theo Epstein has tried and tried and tried to find a replacement at shortstop for Nomar Garciaparra ever since he traded the star shortstop in the summer of 2003. Perhaps tonight, he has finally tried and succeeded. According to Ed Price of AOL Fanhouse , the Red Sox have signed free agent SS Marco Scutaro to a ...

After declining the option on Pedro Feliz, the Philadelphia Phillies were in need of a third baseman. Today, the Phillies found their man. According to various sources, the Phillies have officially signed Placido Polanco to a three-year, $18 million deal with a mutual option for 2013. Polanco, who will be 35 at the end of next season hit .285/.331./.396 with 10 home runs for the Detroit Tigers in 2009. I've got to ...

As we saw yesterday, Billy Wagner signed a one-year contract with the Atlanta Braves to be their closer in 2010. Now that he has signed, letÆs look at the fantasy impact and where you should draft Wagner in 2010. Wagner has a couple of things going for him in 2010. First, he is going to be the closer on a winning teamùthat always helps. The Braves won 86 games in 2009 and ...

According to ESPN.comÆs Buster Olney, the Colorado Rockies and closer Huston Street are far apart on a contract extension. Street is a free agent at the end of the 2010 season. Olney is hearing that StreetÆs camp is asking for a three-year deal in the neighborhood of $24 million. If the Rockies and Street canÆt come to an agreement, they would consider trading Street at the 2010 trading deadline in July. There ...

For those of you who are not aware, yesterday at 11:59 pm EST was the last day teams could offer their free agents arbitration. Once a team offers arbitration to a player, that player has until Dec. 7 to accept. A team would offer arbitration to a player—especially to a Type A or a Type B free agent—because that team then would receive draft compensation as a result of that player ...

Desperate times call for desperate measures. According to ESPNÆs Peter Gammons, the Boston Red Sox have asked 2B Dustin Pedroia if he would be willing to move over to shortstop: TheyÆve asked me if I think I could play shortstop,ö says Pedroia. ôTheyÆve put it out there and IÆve told them IÆm all for it. I can do it. I canÆt wait for Tito [Terry Francona] to call me and ...

For me, Thanksgiving is the best holiday of the year. It’s one of the few times of the year when all bets are off when it comes to food: turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, and pumpkin pie. It doesn’t get any better than that. Thanksgiving is also the time of year when we give thanks to what we have in life. It’s no different for all 30 Major League Baseball teams. Each team ...