A look back at the original reporting and analysis found on MLBTR this past week:
- MLBTR broke the news that the Braves received Jordan Walden when they traded Tommy Hanson to the Angels.
- MLBTR was the first to learn the Angels claimed outfielder Scott Cousins off waivers from the Mariners.
- Tim Dierkes was the first to report Charlie Morton will earn $2MM from his new contract with the Pirates.
- David Wright and his agent, Seth Levinson, reached out to MLBTR to respond to the slew of reports regarding their contract negotiations with the Mets.
- Jim Munsey, agent for free agent reliever Sean Burnett, told MLBTR the rumor his client is seeking a four-year deal is a "complete fabrication by someone."
- MLBTR has released its 2013 Arbitration Tracker displaying all arbitration eligible players, with fields for team, service time, player and team submissions, the midpoint, and the settlement amount. The 2013 Arbitration Tracker can also be filtered by team, signing status, service time, Super Two status, and whether a hearing occurred.
- MLBTR has a separate tender/non-tender tracker with the results from this past Friday's non-tender deadline. Additionally, Mike Axisa listed the notable non-tenders.
- Ben Nicholson-Smith explained how the non-tender system works.
- MLBTR presented a series of Divisional chats, as a warm-up to this week's Winter Meetings, covering the NL East (hosted by Mark Polishuk), AL Central (hosted by Steve Adams), NL West (hosted by Ben Nicholson-Smith), NL Central (hosted by Tim Dierkes), AL East and AL West (both hosted by Mike Axisa).
- Mike compiled this week's edition of Baseball Blogs Weigh In.
- Here's a refresher on MLBTR's commenting policy.
