Free-agent reliever Brian Fuentes and the Los Angeles Angels reached agreement on a two-year, $17.5 million deal Wednesday, giving the AL West champions a replacement for record-setting closer Francisco Rodriguez. Fuentes gets $8.5 million next season and $9 million in 2010. There's a club option for $9 million in 2011.

Results of this week's newyorkrangers.com Moment of the Week voting for Dec. 22-28 are now official. Ryan Callahan's second goal against Washington was the winner, with fans praising Callahan's style of play. Read what the voters had to say. 

The Mets' pursuit of a starting pitcher likely to provide at least 200 innings per season is quite serious and finally under way. The club with a conspicuous vacancy in its rotation is willing to pay Derek Lowe at least $12 million per year to fill it during the 2009-2011 seasons.

Before there was David Ortiz in a Boston Red Sox uniform, there was Mo Vaughn, a feared hitter with prodigious power who this year finds himself eligible for the Hall of Fame.

The Mets have acted on their remaining offseason priority, extending highly sought right-hander Derek Lowe a three-year offer for approximately $36 million, according to a report in the New York Times.

Former New York Yankees outfielder Bernie Williams apparently injured his quad playing for Carolina in Puerto Rico, according to the New York Journal News. The 40-year-old Williams is trying to get in shape to compete for Puerto Rico in the World Baseball Classic in March.

Mark Teixeira, Scott Boras, the Yankees and all that money dominate email correspondence from readers.

Whatever interest the New York Mets might have had in diminished center fielder Andruw Jones had a rather short...

The only grumbling about the Yankees' reported deal for Mark Teixeira should be from New York residents wondering why so much of their tax money will go toward the club's new stadium during a time of extreme cutbacks throughout the city and state.

Those folks worrying about a lack of police academies and school programs have every right to question whether the Yankees should be receiving some of the tax breaks and other aid for their new stadium when the club is flush enough to grab every new toy available this offseason.

But the folks moaning around baseball about the Yankees' flinging of cash toward their desired subjects? They don't have as much of a case.

The Yankees simply made some excellent moves from a baseball and business standpoint this offseason,...