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NEW YORK — Sometime around the midpoint of the baseball owners’ nearly two billion dollar spending spree at the winter meetings in San Diego this week, Billy Eppler got off the phone in the Mets war room and announced to his troops that the earth had just shifted.

A few hours after Aaron Judge re-signed with the Yankees on Wednesday morning, and before A.J. Preller added Xander Bogaerts at the end of the night in his latest push to field an entire roster of shortstops, the Cardinals agreed to a five-year, $87.5 million contract with ...

She has been released as part of a prisoner swap with Russia.

This is a ridiculous lineup.

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After a decade in Boston, the 30-year-old shortstop accepted a reported 11-year, $280 million deal with San Diego.

The Padres are adding the All-Star slugger to an already deep lineup.

The San Diego Padres and Xander Bogaerts have agreed to a blockbuster $280 million, 11-year contract, adding the All-Star slugger to an already deep lineup

He has spent his entire 10-year career in the majors with the Red Sox.