Carl Pavano News

Carl Pavano could have accepted and won a potential $9 million to $10 million one-year contract through arbitration if he would have stayed with the Indians.

The midseason non-waiver Trade Deadline is always an exciting time for baseball fans as they watch closely to see what their favorite Major League club does, be it acquire a big-name player or trade one away, often for a handful of top Minor League prospects.

Here's another name for the long list of pitchers drawing interest from the Brewers this winter: Carl Pavano.

Now that teams are starting to finalize their rosters prior to today's deadline, I thought it might be fun to create a thread and look at some of the players who will be available to us in this year's Rule 5 draft.

The Indians, at the moment, are expecting Jake Westbrook to be in the starting rotation when the season opens April 5 at U.S. Cellular Field in Chicago.

Here's a press release from the MLBPA listing the players eligible to file for free agency beginning today.

The agent for Carl Pavano scheduled a meeting with Twins General Manager Bill Smith today, to give the Twins first crack at the righthander's services before Pavano hits the free agent market.

The World Series may still be fresh in your mind, but MLB GMs are already focusing on next season.

Pitchers Carl Pavano and J.J. Putz were the lone players to file for free agency on Saturday, bringing to date 120 players who have filed since the World Series came to a conclusion.

The offseason can now be deemed "officially" under way. Thanks to the Yankees clinching their 27th World Series title on Wednesday night, players eligible for free agency could begin filing their paperwork on Thursday.

They've now played two games of the 2009 edition of the World Series -- or, as Ring Lardner used to call it, the World Serious -- and I think we can say that we've already learned a few interesting things from the opening contests.

Sort of an easy one, no? He makes his World Series debut with 583 career homers.

Teams always talk this way, always talk about wanting to step on necks, wanting to kick teams when they're down, wanting to close series out at the first opportunity.Mostly these turn out to be emptier oaths than Steve Phillips' wedding vows.

Time: 7:07 p.m. ET TV: TBS Radio: WCBS 880 AM Pitching matchup: LHP Andy Pettitte vs.

That's not the way many Yankees fans would choose describe Carl Pavano. But that's how Twins manager Ron Gardenhire did before Game 2 at Yankee Stadium.

On what was already Black Sunday in New England, the New York Yankees rubbed it in a bit more, advancing to the American League Championship Series last night by virtue of a 4-1 win over the Minnesota Twins, sweeping the Division Series in the final major league game at the Metrodome.

Carl Pavano called those four injury-riddled, tension-filled seasons with the Yankees a "black period" in his career.

Crazy Yankee Chick : Well, well, well. Carl F%#&ing Pavano. We meet again. Sunday, Oct.

For the Yankees, it wasn't so much a victory as an exorcism. A chance to finally get past what had become their October road block, the American League Division Series , and move to within striking distance of a return to the World Series .

Tonight's spotlight will glare into Carl Pavano's eyes as he tries to stave off elimination for the Twins against the team that openly questioned his toughness in four injury-plagued seasons in New York.