This Week in Transactions - Jan 6 through Jan 12

Hello everyone and welcome to This Week in Transactions where we let you in the loop on all moves made throughout the week. It was light on major league signings but there were plenty of minor league deals cut. A manager was extended in Hollywood, a certain phenom from D.C. avoided arbitration and a handful of top prospects received invites to Spring Training. Now on to the goodies.

Trades

• None

MLB Free Agent Signings

• None

Avoided Arbitration

• 1/7 - OAK - RHP Jesse Chavez (1/$775K)
• 1/10 - KC - C Brett Hayes (1/$630K)
• 1/10 - WAS - RHSP Stephen Strasburg (1/$3.975M with $125K of incentives)

Extensions

• 1/7 - DET - SS Jose Iglesias (1/$1.65M, not arb-eligible until after 2015)
• 1/7 - LAD - Manager Don Mattingly (3 years)

DFA's

• 1/7 - TB - OF Jerry Sands
• 1/10 - NYY - OF Vernon Wells

Outrights

• 1/7 - SD - RHP Adys Portillo (to AA)
• 1/9 - TB - OF Jerry Sands (to AAA)

Waiver Claims

• 1/6 - STL - OF Rafael Ortega (DFA'd by TEX)
• 1/7 - TB - LHP Pedro Figueroa (DFA'd by OAK)
• 1/10 - AZ - LHP Santos Rodriguez (DFA'd by CWS)

Non-tenders/Released

• 1/7 - MIL - RHP Nick Bucci
• 1/8 - CLE - RHP Kyle Blair, RHP Owen Dew, RHP Rafael Holmbert, RHP Michael Goodnight, IF Manuel Boscan, OF Victor De Jesus

40-Man Additions

• None

MiLB Free Agent Signings

• 1/6 - PIT - OF Chris Dickerson
• 1/6 - SEA - C Humberto Quintero
• 1/6 - CLE - RHP Scott Atchison
• 1/6 - CLE -  RF Jeff Francouer (1/$1M if he makes MLB roster with $500K of incentives)
• 1/6 - TB - IF Ray Olmedo, 3B/OF James Darnell, C Ali Solis, RHP Santiago Garrido
• 1/6 - NYM - C Taylor Teagarden (1/$725K if he makes MLB roster with $50K of incentives)
• 1/6 - NYM - RHP Jeremy Hefner
• 1/6 - COL - RHP Richard Castillo
• 1/7 - PIT - SS Robert Andino
• 1/7 - KC - C Ramon Hernandez
• 1/7 - SD - 1B/OF Xavier Nady
• 1/7 - BAL - RHP Eddie Gamboa, RHP Zach Clark
• 1/8 - MIA - RHP Kevin Slowey, RHP Craig Westcott, LHP Jose Gonzalez
• 1/8 - NYY - RHP Yoshinori Tateyama, RHP Bruce Billings
• 1/8 - ATL - LHP Atahualpa Severino
• 1/8 - MIN - 2B/OF Corey Wimberly
• 1/8 - DET - OF Trevor Crowe, OF Ezequiel Carrera, RHP Eduardo Sanchez, C Luis Exposito
• 1/9 - TB - IF Jayson Nix
• 1/9 - MIL - LHP Brad Mills, 1B/OF Brock Kjeldgaard
• 1/9 - WAS - IF Mike Fontenot
• 1/9 - CWS - UT Eric Patterson
• 1/9 - MIA - RHP Jesus Sanchez, OF Matt Angle, LHP Josh Spence
• 1/10 - SF - LHP Dontrelle Willis
• 1/10 - BAL - IF Alexi Casilla
• 1/10 - SD - RHP Blaine Boyer
• 1/10 - BOS - RHP Hideyoshi Otake
• 1/11 - NYY - RHP Robert Coello
• 1/11 - SD - LHP Zach Braddock
• 1/11 - CIN - RHP Bobby Keppel
• 1/11 - AZ - SS Tommy Manzella
• 1/12 - NYY - IF Scott Sizemore (5/1 and 8/1 opt-out dates)

Retirements

• 1/6 - IF Ryan Theriot

Free Agency Elections

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