M's and Rafael DePaula

By Jason A. Churchill

03-08-2010

If you've been following all the news the past several weeks you have heard the Seattle Mariners, along with at least two other clubs -- believed to be the big guns called the Yankees and Red Sox -- are in on right-hander Rafael DePuala of the Dominican Republic, and if a club wants to get him a visa for 2010, time is running out.

But despite word that Seattle has made him the highest offer in the $1.5 million range -- and that is the word I am hearing as well -- I'm also hearing that the M's offer won't likely get it done.

One source tells me it may get into the mid-2s if the Yankees and Red Sox like him as much as they are letting on, and that if Seattle wants him the price w...

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