Gary Gillette of the Baseball Early Bird is covering the Winter Meetings, and has filed his first report. You can get the Early Bird every morning via e-mail. It includes trivia and news and notes from yesterday in baseball. Give it a look.

On the non-news front, the announcement of Chone Figgins signing by Seattle on the eve of the Winter Meetings apparently will come today, assuming the free agent passed his physical exam yesterday. And reports have been circulating that St. Louis is close to a deal with free-agent pitcher Brad Penny, with only a physical holding up an announcement. That could come today, or tomorrow, or perhaps never, given the depressingly low standards that sports journalism has sunk to in terms of reporting even the second-hand whisper of a rumor of an unsubstantiated report of something that maybe could possibly potentially even really happen.

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