According to FoxSports.com, Billy Wagner’s agent, Bean Stringfellow, has heard from eight teams in regard to interest in his client. Stringfellow identified five of the clubs — the Red Sox, Washington, Atlanta, Houston, and Baltimore — but said that the final three wished to remain anonymous.

Stringfellow said that all of the teams who have called, with the exception of the Red Sox, have done so with an eye to adding Wagner as a closer. The agent also said in the report that teams have not been scared off by the fact that Wagner is a Type A free agent and would cost any team that signed him (except the Red Sox) a draft pick when the Sox offer the reliever arbitration.