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With Major League Baseball’s winter GM Meetings having wrapped up last week, the leagues 30 general managers are in the midst of off-season renovations. TSN.ca looks at the day’s hottest rumours as free agent season gets off the ground. New suitor for Panda The San Diego Padres have emerged as the fifth known team interested in San Francisco Giants free agent third baseman Pablo Sandoval. CBS Sports Jon Heyman reports that the Padres are keen on bringing the three-time World Series winner across the NL West after watching him up close for the last seven years. The Padres join the Giants, Toronto Blue Jays, Chicago White Sox and Boston Red Sox as the teams known to be pursuing the 28-year-old Venezuelan. Sandoval is expected to meet with the Red Sox some time this week. San Diego has already been active this off-season. The team posted the accepted bid for 26-year-old South Korean lefty Kwang Hyun Kim. The team has until December 12 to reach an agreement with the player after having their bid, reported to be in the $2 million range, accepted by SK Wyverns of the Korea Baseball Organization. The Padres are also believed to be among the clubs tracking Cuban outfielder Yosmany Tomas. Boras not worried on Scherzer Baseball mega-agent Scott Boras says that hes not worried about a lack of a market for his client, Detroit Tigers free agent starter, Max Scherzer. Boras also countered early reports that the Tigers were no longer interested in retaining the services of the 2013 American League Cy Young Award winner. “I’ve never heard anything from anyone to suggest they’re not,” Boras told MLB Network Radios Jim Bowden and Jim Duquette on Sunday. “You have to remember that over the past 3-4 years, when you go back and look at the Detroit Tigers, as good as they are with all the offensive weaponry and pitching they have, when Max Scherzer pitches, they win 70% of their games. In all other games, the Tigers play at about 54%. So Max Scherzer has a huge impact on the success of the Detroit Tigers.” The 30-year-old Scherzer is among those at the top end of this years free agent starters along with Jon Lester of the Oakland Athletics and Kansas City Royals right-hander James Shields. Boras believes that a suitor for Scherzer might not be one with an obvious need for a starter and would sign him in a two-step process that involved trading an incumbent member of its rotation. “Say you need bullpen or you need catching or you need offense, whatever your other weakness, Boras explained. You can trade one of your good pitchers for someone like that and also then add a number one, which then strengthens your team in two areas. Scherzer finished 2014 at 18-5 with a 3.15 ERA and 1.175 WHIP in 220.1 innings over 33 starts. Discount NFL Jerseys 2020 . -- C.J. 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The injury was caused in the second minute of Tuesdays 4-1 league win over Real Sociedad in the Camp Nou when teammate Sergio Busquets accidentally struck Mascherano just above the knee with an outstretched boot.AUGUSTA, Ga. -- The first full day at the Masters turned out to be a short one Monday. Augusta National was open for only two hours because of storms, still enough time for a few players to see some of the changes to the golf course -- even though this was supposed to be a year with really no change at all. The ice storm in February that led to the demise of the famous Eisenhower Tree also cost the club countless other trees, giving Augusta a slightly different look. Instead of a forest of Georgia pines, players can see from the 10th fairway all the way across to the 15th fairway. Players couldnt help but notice the number of trees missing from the right side of the narrow, claustrophobic seventh fairway. "You dont feel like youre going down a bowling alley as much," Brandt Snedeker said, his hair wet from wearing a visor in the rain. The club lost thousands of limbs that were damaged from the ice storm, so many that Jimmy Walker said he saw workers up in the trees with chain saws when he came to Augusta a few weeks ago for a practice round. "I havent played here a ton, so I kind of got the feeling you could see down through the golf course a little bit better than you used to be able," Walker said. "I dont know if thats a good thing or a bad thing." Some things never change. The course was starting to burst with colour. The greens already had a tinge of yellow to them. And there was a buzz about the Masters, even without Tiger Woods around for the first time in 20 years because of recent back surgery. Still, nothing stood out quite like the 17th hole. Masters champion Adam Scott always assumed the 440-yard par 4 was a dogleg left because of the 65-foot high loblolly pine that jutted out from the left side about 220 yards from the tee, forcing shots to the right except for the big hitters who could take it over the tree. Mike Weir is not one of the big hitters, so when asked how he found the 17th hole on Monday, the Canadian smiled. "Much friendlier," he said. "I was playing with Jason Day. For him, it doesnt matter. He hits it high and long enough. For me, I had to hit around it. It was probably the toughest drive on the course. Now, its much easier." It was amazing to him to walk up the fairway and see a patch of pine straw where the tree once stood so proud and tall. Weir and several other players assumed that Augusta National would have another pine placed their before the Masters.dddddddddddd Maybe next year. But not this week. The tree was such a treasure -- named after former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a club member who hit into the tree far too often -- that it was taken off site for storage. The club will determine later what do with the trunk and what limbs remain. But what a difference it has made already. "If the tree was there, I would have hit it yesterday," said Patrick Reed, who arrived on the weekend and already got in two practice rounds. "It was cold. It was a little into the wind and I hit it down the left side. I knew exactly where the tree was, and I probably would have caught the top half of that tree and would have been underneath it." "First three times I played this course it was there, and it made that hole really hard." Snedeker played on Sunday with Masters rookie Harris English and said he pulled his tee shot on the 17th. Any other year, he would have hit the tree. "It was perfect," he said. "Its still not an easy tee shot. But its not as hard as it used to be." The rest of the course should be the same as usual. The Masters can set up the course any way it likes -- difficult for scoring, or birdies that make cheers reverberate. It has trended toward excitement over the last several years, such as when Charl Schwartzel won with four straight birdies at the end, or even last year when Scott and Angel Cabrera in the last two groups each made birdie on the 18th to force a playoff. The biggest change is likely to be the guy in a red shirt. Woods won his fourth green jacket in 2005, though he usually kept it interesting, and always kept fans guessing. His back surgery last week means the worlds No. 1 player will be out of golf until the summer, and out of the Masters for the first time in his career. "Without Tiger here, its a different feel," Snedeker said. "Its a different event. He does a great job of bringing energy and bringing fans out that we dont usually get." Those fans had to leave early on Monday. By lunch, the course was closed for good. Masters chairman Billy Payne said they would get a refund in May, and they were guaranteed a chance to get practice round tickets for next year. Woods likely will be back by then. And odds are, there will be more trees. ' ' '