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Bill Madden: Mets, Yankees spreading holiday joy in Big Apple with free-spending offseason

NEW YORK — When the dust began settling on what had been the wildest two weeks of spending in baseball history, Steve Cohen had emerged with a payroll of over $340 million and Hal Steinbrenner had shelled out $522 million on two players alone in Aaron Judge and Carlos Rodon.

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Mets are expected to shatter records with $350 million payroll

The club is expected to owe $80 million in luxury tax.

Chicago Sun-Times

Carlos Correa agrees to $350 million, 13-year deal with Giants

Correa’s guarantee will be the fourth-largest in baseball history.

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Bill Madden: It’s contract madness from MLB owners at winter meetings in ‘age of irrationality’

NEW YORK — Sometime around the midpoint of the baseball owners’ nearly two billion dollar spending spree at the winter meetings in San Diego this week, Billy Eppler got off the phone in the Mets war room and announced to his troops that the earth had just shifted.

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Willson Contreras Pushes Cardinals Closer to World Series Contention

A few hours after Aaron Judge re-signed with the Yankees on Wednesday morning, and before A.J. Preller added Xander Bogaerts at the end of the night in his latest push to field an entire roster of shortstops, the Cardinals agreed to a five-year, $87.5 million contract with ...

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The Mets Just Keep on Spending—but They Shouldn’t Be Done Yet

New York re-signed Brandon Nimmo and grabbed David Robertson off the open market, and it could still do more.

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Mets continue expanding payroll after signing Brandon Nimmo, David Robertson

NEW YORK — The Mets blew past the luxury tax benchmark with their splashy winter meetings acquisitions and general manager Billy Eppler promised even more talent. One day after the meetings wrapped up, the club made good on that promise by re-signing outfielder Brandon Nimmo to an eight-year, $162 million…

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Brandon Nimmo, Mets agree to 8-year, $162 million deal, sources say

ARLINGTON, Texas — The Mets really are going for it.

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Report: OF Brandon Nimmo Signs Eight-Year Deal With Mets

The veteran outfielder and former first-round pick will reportedly stay in New York after garnering interest from several teams.

Sports Illustrated

Billy Eppler plans to ‘stay working’ after adding four new pitchers at Winter Meetings

SAN DIEGO — The Mets are leaving the Winter Meetings with four new pitchers but have yet to find a center fielder or address the lack of power in the lineup.

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Red Sox to sign Japanese outfielder Masataka Yoshida to historic contract worth $105 million

SAN DIEGO — It’s not the move Red Sox fans have been waiting for, but for the first time in years they made a franchise-altering free-agent signing that will completely change the way they look on the field.

Boston Herald

What We’re Hearing About the Mets, Aaron Judge and the Red Sox

The winter meetings reached a new level of activity on Day 3. Here’s what could be next.

Sports Illustrated

What We’re Hearing on Day 2 at the Winter Meetings

Carlos Rodón looks set to cash in. Plus, notes on blocking the bases, the baseballs and other signings from Day 2 in San Diego.

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Wordplayer Agent: Scott’s Puns Never Bore Us

How Scott Boras, the biggest agent in baseball, turns meetings with reporters into a semiannual sea of puns, metaphors and jokes.

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Taking a look at the Mets roster less than a week before Winter Meetings

The big dominoes have yet to fall, but with MLB winter meetings less than a week away, we might finally see more hot stove movement.

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Where Have All the Star Center Fielders Gone?

This is the worst the position has been in at least 50 years. What happened? Is there hope for a revival?

Los Angeles Times

Dodgers don't tender offer to Cody Bellinger, making him a free agent

LOS ANGELES — The Dodgers had until 5 p.m. Friday to decide whether to tender Cody Bellinger, the 2019 National League MVP, a contract for the 2023 season.

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Building the Best Blue Jays Team for 2023

Earlier this week, the Blue Jays and Mariners made a fascinating trade. Toronto sent outfielder Teoscar Hernández, one of its best hitters, to Seattle for righthander Erik Swanson and minor-league lefthander Adam Macko. Hernández is projected to earn $14.1 million in 2023 via ...

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Ranking MLB’s Top 50 Free Agents, With Signing Predictions

The offseason is officially here, and this year’s free-agency class features a record-setting slugger alongside star shortstops. See how they stack up.

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Mets’ Canha Says Jacob deGrom Wants to Stay With Team

The Mets starter is expected to opt-out of his contract and enter free agency.

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Abbey Mastracco: Mets lack of playoff success doesn’t diminish off-field strides

NEW YORK — The Mets used to be synonymous with controversy. There have been too many years throughout the club’s history when the off-field incidents overshadowed the on-field play.

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Mets Left to Accept Another Fruitless Season

A season that so recently seemed it could be special ended in familiar fashion for the Mets, who will likely look a lot different next year.

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The Mets Just Might Be Enough

Pushed to the brink of what would have been a devastating elimination, the Mets looked more like their best selves in Game 2 against the Padres.

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Baseball Players LOVE Their Playoff Merch

Only slightly less coveted than the postseason berth itself, the highly anticipated playoff paraphernalia is an MLB “rite of passage.”

Newsday

Mets beat Nationals in doubleheader opener, but Atlanta claims division with win in Miami

NEW YORK — The Mets left Georgia last weekend knowing full well they lost the opportunity to control their own fate, so when the out-of-town scoreboard read “FINAL” Tuesday night, there was little solace in the fact that the offense that deserted them against Atlanta was now clicking smoothly against…

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