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Boras: Sox made offers for Varitek and Teixeira

Found December 18, 2008 on The Bottom Line:
PLAYERS: Mark Teixeira
TEAMS: Boston Red Sox,  Los Angeles Angels,  Washington Nationals,  Baltimore Orioles,  New York Yankees

Scott Boras sat down with the media today and rattled off a few updates. Extra Bases has the details, but here are few highlights: Boras said he has offers for Mark Teixeira from the Red Sox, Angels, Nationals, Orioles and Yankees. Earlier today we heard that C.C. Sabathia's 7-year, $160M deal all but guarantees it will take something like 8 years and 180M+ to land Teixeira... but Boras had...

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