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David Haugh: Torn between Arrieta and Darvish? For Cubs, the difference is Yu.

All the Cubs want for Christmas is Yu.

Starter Yu Darvish would be the ideal present for the team that has everything except a replacement at the top of the rotation for Jake Arrieta.

Arrieta and Darvish remain free agents as baseball's hot stove gets checked to see if its igniter works. Cubs executives Theo Epstein and Jed Hoyer showed how serious their interest in Darvish has become by flying to Dallas earlier this week for a three-hour meeting with the Japanese right-hander, who chose not to use an

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