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MLB Free Agents 2012: Expect Yankees to Make Aggressive Run at Yu Darvish

New York Yankees have been awfully quiet at baseball’s winter meetings and I think I know why.

As C.J. Wilson gets overpaid by the Angels and ditto for Mark Buehrle and the Marlins, the Yankees are being patient for once.

That’s because the bidding war for Japanese pitcher Yu Darvish is about to begin. Paul White of USA Today is reporting that he will be posted on Thursday, which means every team is allowed to bid for the right to sign the 25-year-old hurler. The money for the winning bid goes to his Japanese team, the Hokkaido Nippon Ham.

San Francisco Chronicle reporter Susan Slusser suggests that the winning bid will likely be in the $40 million range. Teams like the A’s (who are also interested) simply can’t ...

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