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Odds & Ends: Butler, Holliday, Counsell

A batch of links to kick off the work week...

• Newly minted Royals Player of the Year Billy Butler has not held long-term extension talks with the team, MLBTR learned on a conference call today.  Butler will not be arbitration-eligible until after the 2010 season. 
• Desipio on the Cubs-Curtis Granderson idea: "In the end, this smells like a winter of Brian Roberts and Jake Peavy trade rumors.  One that ends with us talking ourselves into how Marlon Byrd isn’t so bad after all."
• Jon Paul Morosi of FOX Sports believes it's a three-horse race for Matt Holliday: the Red Sox, Yankees, and Angels.
• ESPN's Jerry Crasnick writes about Jed Hoyer and the Adrian Gonzalez situation.
• ESPN's Buster Olney tweets that a dozen teams have expressed interest in free agent infielder Craig Counsell.  He'd like a multiyear deal.
• MLB.com's T.R. Sullivan sums up the Rangers' hot stove storylines.
• Evan Grant wonders what it would take for the Rangers to acquire Edwin Jackson.
• ESPN's Keith Law believes it'd be unwise for a team to acquire Dan Uggla and move him off second base.
• Sean Smith's 2010 CHONE projections for hitters are now available, so take a peek into his crystal ball.
• Jeremy Greenhouse of The Hardball Times cautions against misuses of the WAR statistic.
• Jeff Blair of The Globe and Mail thinks the Blue Jays "will be all over" Brandon Phillips to play third base if the Reds make him available.
• Troy Renck of the Denver Post suggests Rockies GM Dan O'Dowd will hold Type A free agent reliever Rafael Betancourt hostage with an arbitration offer.  In my opinion, Betancourt has a decent chance of accepting.
• Tommy Rancel of DRays Bay talked to Rays VP of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedman.

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