Yu Darvish Posting Period Over, Winning Team To Be
Announced Soon  The Yu Darvish derby is about to be winnowed
down to a single team. The deadline to submit a bid to negotiate
with the 25-year-old Japanese right-hander was Wednesday at 5:00
p.m. ET, and there's a trickle of information coming out. MLB
Trade Rumors has a great collection of tweets and links from
beat writers confirming who did or did not make a bid. And there
are some obvious surprises:  There are all sorts of bombshells
like those ones. But if there is a legitimate twist, it's that
the Yankees were not believed to have bid very much. Though it's
possible that a "modest bid" for the Yankees might be the $500
million that they just got around to getting out of the office
vending machines, it seems like they are not leading the
sweepstakes.  The Red Sox were another team that was linked to
the possibility of a Darvish bid -- one of the stories that flew
under the radar last season was how Boston's pitching collapsed
in September. According to N