HBT: Yanks, Cubs among those to bid on Darvish

The window for Major League Baseball teams to submit bids on free agent Japanese right-hander Yu Darvish has been closed for over three hours.

We don?t know which club has won the rights to negotiate exclusively with the 6-foot-5 starter, and might not have that information for another few days, but reports are slowly trickling out about which teams did and did not submit bids. So we?ll pass those along as we play the waiting game together.

Darvish, 25, posted an?18-7 record, 1.44 ERA and 276/36 K/BB ratio in 232 innings this past year for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham?Fighters. He had a 1.99 career ERA in seven total NPB seasons.

CBS Sports? Danny Knobler heard from a source?Wednesday night that the Fighters front office was ?very excited? about the value of the highest bid and Jeff Passan of Yahoo! Sports says they fully intend to accept. But the Fighters technically have until next Tuesday night to make an official decision.

MADE BID

Yankees
Cubs
Rangers
Blue Jays

DID NOT BID

Rays
Angels
Twins
Orioles
Red Sox
Reds
Marlins
Mets
Giants
Athletics

Source: http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/12/14/waiting-for-word-on-the-yu-darvish-bidding/related/

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