Mets agree with Pelfrey, 3 others (AP)

The Mets have settled all four of their potential salary arbitration cases, agreeing to one-year contracts with pitchers Mike Pelfrey, Ramon Ramirez and Manny Acosta, and outfielder Andres Torres. Pelfrey gets $5,687,500, Ramirez $2.65 million, Acosta $875,000 and Torres $2.7 million in the deals announced Tuesday.

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Mets finalize $1.1M deal with OF Scott Hairston (AP)

Outfielder Scott Hairston and the New York Mets have finalized a $1.1 million, one-year contract. The 31-year-old hit .235 with seven homers and 24 RBIs in 132 at-bats last season. His three pinch-homers were one shy of the team record.

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Mets finalize $1.1M deal with OF Scott Hairston (AP)

Outfielder Scott Hairston and the New York Mets have finalized a $1.1 million, one-year contract. The 31-year-old hit .235 with seven homers and 24 RBIs in 132 at-bats last season. His three pinch-homers were one shy of the team record.

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Astros claim OF Martinez off waivers from Mets (PA SportsTicker)

Outfielder Fernando Martinez has been claimed by the Houston Astros off waivers from the New York Mets.

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Cardinals confirm Beltran’s two-year deal (Yahoo! Sports)

Carlos Beltran won't exactly make St. Louis Cardinals fans get over the loss of Albert Pujols, but the outfielder helps the lineup attempt to recover. The Cardinals confirmed Thursday's reports that Beltran had agreed to a two-year deal contingent on a physical, and are...

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Beltran, Cardinals agree on two-year deal (Yahoo! Sports)

St. Louis grabbed the best remaining bat off the free-agent market by signing outfielder Carlos Beltran for $26 million.

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Mets send CF Angel Pagan to SF, sign 2 relievers (AP)

Walking across the hotel lobby, New York Mets manager Terry Collins smiled. "We rebuilt our bullpen in one day," he said. In a rapid-fire series of moves at the winter meetings that took 1 1/2 days to put together and 1 1/2 hours to finalize, the Mets agreed to trade center fielder Angel Pagan to San Francisco for outfielder Andres Torres and pitcher Ramon Ramirez, and reached agreements...

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Adam Loewen agrees to minor league deal with Mets (AP)

Pitcher-turned-outfielder Adam Loewen has agreed to a minor league contract with the New York Mets. The 27-year-old Loewen, who will attend major league spring training under Tuesday's deal, was 6 for 32 (.188) for Toronto last season with one home run and four RBIs. He hit .306 at Triple-A Las Vegas of the Pacific Coast League with 46 doubles, 17 homers and 85 RBIs.

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Dykstra pleads no contest to auto theft charges (Yahoo! Sports)

Former Major League outfielder Lenny Dykstra pleaded "no contest" to three felony counts of grand theft auto and one felony count of providing a false financial statement, in a plea bargain, according to multiple reports.

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MLB NOTES: Holliday starts for Cards, Epstein to Cubs?, Wilson fired by Mets (Yahoo! Sports)

St. Louis outfielder Matt Holliday is in the starting lineup for Game 4 of the NL Division series Wednesday at St. Louis. Holliday did not start in the first three games due to an inflamed tendon in the middle finger of his right hand.

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