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- Updated: December 6, 2016
Max Scherzer, Stephen Strasburg and — Chris Sale?
The perennial Cy Young Award candidate may soon be donning a Nationals uniform, as Washington appears to have moved into the catbird seat to pull off a blockbuster deal for the star southpaw. Offering a loaded package of prospects to meet the White Sox high asking price, the Nationals now have a “legitimate chance” of acquiring Sale and are haggling over the final pieces of a trade, according to MLB Network insider Ken Rosenthal.
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Neither club has confirmed that any preliminary deal is in place, and a baseball source told MLB.com that a deal was not likely to be struck on Monday night. But the two sides are closer than they were entering this week’s Winter Meetings, with …
