The Twins continue to stay in contact with the Red Sox, Yankees, Mets and Mariners about a Johan Santana deal.

The Twins continue to stay in contact with the Red Sox, Yankees, Mets and Mariners about a Johan Santana deal.

It's become an annual tradition, of sorts, for Bert Blyleven at this time of year.

It wasn’t the holiday message Red Sox fans were looking for.

Sources inside the Mariners' organization still indicate they're alive on Johan Santana and Baltimore's Erik Bedard.

The Red Sox would reportedly break from their philosophy of not giving out long-term deals for Johan Santana.

The Kansas City Royals have offered Twins' free-agent starter Carlos Silva $30 million for three years, according to Charley Walters of the Pioneer Press.

Upon word that the Minnesota Twins were considering dealing Johan Santana, the New York Yankees jumped at the opportunity to land the ace.

Third baseman Mike Lamb and the Minnesota Twins agreed Friday to a $6.

The agent for Johan Santana has told the Yankees, Red Sox and other teams interested in Twins star pitcher that the price to sign him is a minimum of seven years at $20 million per year, for a total of $140 million guaranteed.

One day after losing his job with the Houston Astros to Miguel Tejada, shortstop Adam Everett has agreed to a one-year contract with the Minnesota Twins, according to major-league sources.

The Red Sox, Yankees and Mets remain the top candidates to be Johan Santana’s next home, and a Sox source yesterday indicated that nothing had changed since last week’s Winter Meetings ended in Tennessee.

The questions surrounding Craig Monroe's future with the Twins were answered on Tuesday when the club signed the outfielder to a one-year contract worth $3.

There was a rumor Wednesday afternoon of a three-way trade with many participants, but that essentially came down to Dan Haren going to Minnesota, Jose Reyes going to Oakland, and Johan Santana going to the Mets.

With the Red Sox still trying to match names with the Twins, other teams are trying to jump into the Johan Santana sweepstakes, including the Mets, SI.

According to Peter Gammons of ESPN, the sense around Nashville is that Johan Santana will not be dealt to Boston or New York.

The Red Sox, according to an official who has been in contact with their top brass, had two goals in the process when it has come to chasing Johan Santana.

What exactly are the Minnesota Twins thinking as they sit back and contemplate Boston's two trade proposals? And are the New York Yankees really, truly out of it? The Yankees pulled out of the Santana sweepstakes Tuesday when Senior VP Hank Steinbrenner told the Associated Press that "a deadline is a deadline.

The best team in baseball is getting closer to acquiring the best pitcher on the market.

According to Hank Steinbrenner, the Yankees’ pursuit of Johan Santana has come to an end.

The Yankees’ pursuit of Johan Santana showed a flicker of life early Tuesday morning when the Minnesota Twins backed off their demand that the right-hander Ian Kennedy be added to the Yankees’ trade offer.

With the New York Yankees seemingly out of the running, the Boston Red Sox are closing in on a trade to acquire the two-time Cy Young Award winner Johan Santana from the Minnesota Twins.

With the Monday night deadline set forth by Hank Steinbrenner passing, the Twins and Yankees have gotten nowhere in trade talks surrounding Johan Santana.

In what may be a calculated response to Hank Steinbrenner's ultimatum that a deal to acquire the Twins' Johan Santana must be agreed to by Monday, Red Sox GM Theo Epstein took the opposite approach.

The Mariners have dropped out of the Johan Santana sweepstakes.

According to major-league sources, Johan Santana has informed the Twins that he would not waive his no-trade clause during the season, ending any chance that he could be moved before the July 31 non-waiver deadline.

The Yankees likely will pull out of trade talks for Johan Santana if the Twins don't make a decision by late Monday.

With the Twins insisting on center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury in any trade for pitcher Johan Santana, the Red Sox have altered their offer and have told the Twins they are willing to include the outfielder.

The Yankees were hoping their decision Friday to include Phil Hughes in a trade package would seal a deal for Johan Santana, but the Twins weren't wowed by the offer.

The Twins may have reached the point where they have the best offers they are going to get from the Yankees and Red Sox for pitcher Johan Santana.