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Jays avoid arbitration with Janssen

Casey Janssen was starting to get a little nervous.

Mariners

Mariners show off newest import

Spring training is officially under way and the centre of attention for the Seattle Mariners brief Sunday morning pratice was the team's newest import from Japan.

MLB

Surgery to sideline Harden for entire MLB season

Free-agent pitcher Rich Harden will sacrifice his 2012 Major League Baseball season for a hoped-for brighter future.

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Doug Melvin's first move as general manager of the Texas Rangers was a trade that sent slugger Jose Canseco to the Boston Red Sox for Otis Nixon.

Chatham's Doug Melvin reflects on rich career

When the kid from Chatham, Ont., grew up to become a major-league general manager, the first thing he did was trade his team's best player.

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Bobby Valentine is introduced as the new manager for the Boston Red Sox during a press conference on December 1, 2011 at Fenway Park.

Bobby Valentine will have to work Pythagorean magic with Red Sox

Bobby Valentine has managed in the World Series and won a championship in Japan but he never has taken a major league team to a division title in 15 seasons as a manager. It's not likely to happen this year either.

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Bleacher Report: Do Sox have enough pitching to compete in AL East?

Clayton Kershaw of the Los Angeles Dodgers pitches against the Houston Astros in the fourth inning at Dodger Stadium on August 13, 2011 in Los Angeles, California.

Dodgers Clayton Kershaw signs for $19 million over two years

Cy Young Award winner Clayton Kershaw and the Los Angeles Dodgers avoided a salary arbitration hearing next week, agreeing to a $19 million, two-year contract.

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Clayton Kershaw receives Warren Spahn award

From 1969 to 1971, Rusty Staub led the Montreal Expos in virtually every offensive category and was an all-star every season.

Canadian Baseball Hall to honour Expos legend Rusty Staub

As the 1969 season approached, the fans of Montreal had to figure Rusty Staub would be a star for their city's new baseball team. Few other candidates existed, and besides, Staub was an established hitter with distinctive qualities: He had curly red hair, choked up three inches on his bat, wore his uniform pants high and ran like molasses in winter.

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North Vancouver's Scott Richmond earns save as Canada defeated the U.S. 2-1 in the final of the Pan Am Games.

Rusty Staub lands spot in Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame

Rusty Staub, Doug Melvin, Rheal Cormier and Canada's gold-medal winning team at the 2011 Pan Am Games will be inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame this summer.

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Texas Rangers left fielder Josh Hamilton during World Series in St. Louis, Missouri.

Rangers' Josh Hamilton had alcohol relapse at Dallas bar

Texas Rangers outfielder Josh Hamilton, the 2010 American League MVP who has battled addiction to drugs and alcohol for nearly a decade, had a relapse with alcohol Monday night at a bar in Dallas.

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Joey Votto Cincinnati Reds takes batting practice during a game against the Philadelphia Phillies.

Blue Jays are just one blockbuster trade away (think Joey Votto)

Unless that pesky Mayan calendar is correct, and the Earth drifts into a black hole or is attacked by a higher species we never knew existed, Joey Votto will be with the Blue Jays in the very near future. When that inevitable acquisition is finalized, they will have the full attention of the American League for the first time since the early '90s.

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Jays' Cordero finds more with less

He saved 37 games and posted a 2.45 ERA last season, but Francisco Cordero was the last closer standing in the free-agent market.

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San Francisco Giants' Carlos Beltran celebrates home run at AT&T Park in San Francisco September 14, 2011.

Carlos Beltran spurned Blue Jays' advances, Alex Anthopoulos hints

Alex Anthopoulos is notorious for holding tight to trade secrets. But at an event attended by 800 season-ticket holders Monday night, he left a Bigfoot trail in the snow that led to Carlos Beltran.

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