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Good morning everyone! Here is your dose of links for the day!
- Shannon Drayer wonders what the M's should do now that Victor Martinez is off the market.
- Mike Trout has unanimously won the AL MVP Award for 2014, but three Mariners also received votes.
- The Orioles are moving towards finishing an extension with outfielder Nick Markakis.
- Bless You Boys wonders if signing Victor Martinez prevents the Tigers from reataining Max Scherzer.
- August Fagerstrom of Fangraphs looks at what Corey Kluber winning the American League Cy Young Award means for the sport.
- Yasmany Tomas is expected to sign with a Major League team soon.
- The Marlins and Giancarlo Stanton are rumored to be finishing up a monster-sized extension.
- Jeff Sullivan at Fangraphs argues that the rumored Stanton extension isn't totally crazy.
- The Diamondbacks have acquired pitcher Jeremy Hellickson from the Rays.
- The MLB all-star team was recently no-hit in the Japan series.
- Cuban defector Yoan Moncada is officially a free agent.