Normally we do Sunday Links and Coffee, links from around the baseball world for you to enjoy during breakfast. Today, enjoy them with breakfast and delay shoveling (which is what I’m doing as I put this together).

• The Phillies signed two Japanese left-handed pitchers on Friday to throw into the bullpen competition, though Lehigh Valley seems more likely.
• Mike Schmidt and Mickey Morandini are among the Phillies instructors at big league camp, which opens in just over a week.
• Interesting article by Nick Cafardo in the Boston Globe about why Josh Beckett is unlikely to receive a contract extension anytime soon from the Red Sox. Also, didn’t realize that if John Lackey has Tommy John surgery during his five-year contract with Boston, his salary drops to the league minimum.
• At a party the other night, a Twins fan I’ve known for 15 years came up to me and said “Greg, we have the best top four in baseball.” Minnesota signed Orlando Hudson on Friday.
• Ben Hill of MiLB.com on SABR (Society of Baseball Research) and Minor League Baseball.
• We’ll be hearing more about this soon, but Tim Lincecum of the Giants gets ready for what could be the biggest baseball arbitration case in the program’s history.
• Nice look from a CBSSports.com blogger at 25 highest paid players in baseball and if their salaries are justified (Ryan Howard is in there, the only Phillie).

Now, time to shovel.

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