Tom Verducci: As Yankees close in on Lee, other teams brace for impact
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — The Yankees came to the winter meetings with every intention of holding their contract offer to free agent pitcher Cliff Lee, who turns 33 next season, to six years. But as the courtship dragged at the pace of Lee’s agent and not their own, and as the Boston Red Sox snagged the two best available hitters with precision strikes, New York tossed another year and a score …
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Boston’s Game, Set, Match: Red Sox Win War Over Gonzalez and Crawford
The MLB winter meetings have a lot of fans glued to their technology of choice. Twitter, ESPN, XM Radio, the Internet in general are all being utilized to absorb every nugget of info on the dealings going on in Orlando.  So, lying in bed last night, with headphones on pumping MLB Network Radio into my ears and my smart phone in my hand to comb tweets, I was made aware of the Red Sox stunning …
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