The Winter Meetings are underway. We’re going to have a lot of these types of Lukewarm-Stove-like updates throughout the week. We’ll write up specific bits separately – Cubs-heavy rumors (like this morning’s Kenley Jansen one) or significant deals around baseball – but these Winter Meetings items will try to be a little quicker-hitting, if that makes sense.
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A couple of times over weekend, Giants felt they were very close to a Melancon deal. Strong belief inside organization that it gets done.
— Alex Pavlovic (@PavlovicNBCS) December 5, 2016
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Sources: The Jays and Steve Pearce agree to a two-year, $12.5 million deal.
— Buster Olney (@Buster_ESPN) December 5, 2016
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Fowler and blue Jays are still apart in talks. Cards are one other strong possibility.
— Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) December 5, 2016
#Dodgers have shown recent interest in Andrew McCutchen, source confirms. @MLB #Pirates
— Jon Morosi (@jonmorosi) December 5, 2016
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Duquette: "There's a lot of interest in Zach Britton. Personally, I like Zach Britton on our club, but there are teams interested" #Orioles
— MLB Network Radio (@MLBNetworkRadio) December 4, 2016
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Sources: Indians made a strong push at Matt Holliday. Had done the same with Carlos Beltran, as @Ken_Rosenthal said. Need a power bat.
— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) December 5, 2016