Rangers Meet With Cliff Lee

Filed under: Nationals, Rangers, Yankees, MLB Free Agency

The chase for Cliff Lee's services is now officially on.

A contingent from the Texas Rangers was in Little Rock, Ark. on Monday to hold their first meeting with Lee about re-signing him as a free agent. According to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Rangers CEO Chuck Greenberg, president Nolan Ryan and general manager Jon Daniels made the trip to the neighboring state to see the man who helped them reach the first World Series in the history of the organization.

Daniels explained the purpose of the trip at the GM Meetings in Orlando Tuesday.

"We put everything on the back burner when he was with us (during the season)," he said. "We didn't want any distractions. ... It's just that time of the year where we need to have those conversations. Typically, when it's your player, you've already had some baseline conversations. We hadn't had those. ... I think he's got good choices and we're certainly one of them."

That trip comes about a week after the Yankees made a similar pilgrimage to Little Rock to make clear their own interest in acquiring Lee to go with CC Sabathia at the front-end of their rotation.

The only other team that's been publicly mentioned as a suitor for Lee's services has been the Washington Nationals and there aren't too many people who think they are in the mix with the two teams that met in the American League Championship Series.

 

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