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The Yankees and Rangers have both made their offers and now they are sitting back and waiting for Cliff Lee to make a decision. Here are the latest rumblings: Neither the Yankees or the Rangers expect a decision for a few days according to Bob Nightengale of the USA Today. CC Sabathia continues to be in ...

Yesterday the Yankees seemed comfortable with their offer to Cliff Lee which was supposedly for about six-years and $140 million. But then the Red Sox upped the ante by signing Carl Crawford. That put pressure on the Yankees because it took away their backup plan and also introduced the Angels as a serious bidder ...

Update 5:54: Various sources confirm that the Yankees have made an offer for Cliff Lee. His agent has left the winter meetings. Presumably they are mulling offers. Jack Curry of the YES Network guesses that the Yankees offer is about six-years and $140 million. Update 3:11: Jerry Crasnick of ESPN is reporting that Cliff Lee's agent, ...

Update 7:30: Andrew Marchand of ESPN New York is reporting that the Yankees are going to meet with Lee's agent tonight and are prepared to make a 'very lucrative offer'. "I'm willing to get serious," said Cashman. Update 6:24: Heyman is now reporting that there are two teams who are willing to make 7-year offers to Lee. ...

Here is the problem with free agents. Once one of them gets a new toy all of the others want that toy too. In this case the toy is Jayson Werth's new seven-year deal he signed with the Washington Nationals. Now Carl Crawford expects a deal at least as good as Werth's and apparently ...

Instead of writing new post after new post, I've decided to just keep updating this article throughout the day with new Cliff Lee information. So bookmark this page or keep refreshing because this is where all the Lee rumors will be unless there is something really worthy of a new post. Update 6:00: Andrew Marchand updates ...

The winter meetings finally start today which means it is finally game on for free agent lefty Cliff Lee. Unfortunately for the Yankees, the latest rumors don't sound great for them. Yesterday Tim Brown of Yahoo Sports had this: Source: Lee has told former Rangers teammates a sixth year would bring him back to Texas. Then early ...