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Source: Price, Rays ink one-year, $10M contract

CNNSI.com

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) -- A person with knowledge of the deal says AL Cy Young Award winner David Price and the Tampa Bay Rays have agreed to a one-year contract worth just over $10 million, avoiding arbitration.

John Schlegel, MLB.com

For all those who accomplished great things in 2012, the dawning of 2013 presents an opportunity to extend those accomplishments into even greater ones.

Jerry Crasnick, ESPN.com

Free-agent pitcher Brett Myers has reached agreement on a one-year contract with the Cleveland Indians pending a physical exam, a baseball source confirmed to ESPN.com.

David Brown, yahoo.com

The heartbreaking story of Ryan Freel took a hopeful turn recently. The New York Times reports that Freel's family has approved to have some of Freel's brain tissue tested for "a degenerative brain disease known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy.…