Monday, December 8, 2008

More News As of 4:20 pm

- The Tampa Bay Rays have courted Milton Bradley by taking him and his agent out to lunch. According to SI.com's Jon Heyman, the Rays are "thought to be considering" Milton Bradley, Pat Burrell, Bobby Abreu, Jason Giambi, and Raul Ibanez. Heyman adds that Ken Griffey Jr. would be thrilled to play for the Rays.

- Joel Sherman learned from Towers that if he doesn't reach an agreement on a Peavy deal with the Cubs at the Meetings, he will keep the pitcher to start the season. The Dodgers are apparently the only other team to which Peavy has approved a trade.

Sherman adds that the Cubs "are willing to let [Peavy] keep his no-trade clause." Not sure if Sherman is trying to say the Cubs would replace Peavy's partial no-trade rights for 2011 and part of 2012 with full no-trade powers.

- The "great" meeting the Yankees had with C.C Sabathia yesterday could be attested to then bombers bringing in Reggie Jackson. Reggie Jackson joined Brian Cashman and Joe Girardi in what was generally described as an informational meeting with CC Sabathia, mainly with the free agent wanting to collect the information about the Yankees.

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