-Alex Anthopoulos is said to be interested in Anibal Sanchez, noting that a five-year contract, paying around $90 million is pretty fair value for him. More from Shi David on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/ShiDavidi/status/266985718138667008
-B.J. Upton declined Tampa Bay's qualifying offer today, as expected.
-The Nationals have agreed to extend manager Davey Johnson's contract.
-Michael Bourn is receiving interest from many teams, including the Nationals, Phillies, Reds and Red Sox.
-Some team has won the bid for Korean pitcher Hyun-Jin Ryu and he didn't come cheap, Jon Heyman of CBS reports that the winning bid was $25,737,737.33. It is not known which team secured his services as of yet.