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One side doesn't want to talk about $100 million. The other side probably wants to talk about that and much more. The negotiations are only now starting to get interesting and intense.

General manager Jon Daniels declined to get into a step-by-step description of the negotiations, but sources said the Rangers are not going anywhere near the six-year, $102 million deal that Zito is supposed to get from them or somebody else. The word around the Winter Meetings is that owner Tom Hicks is overly eager to sign Zito, but Daniels indicated the club intends to be prudent.

Rangers won't go too high on Zito