Jason Hammel?

Jason Hammel. Boom. Done deal. Fax the sheet to the commissioners office.

The minor leaguers will be Matt Murton and that Kawasaki guy.

Just came in here to say I hate spring training.

Is Matt Murton still alive?

Victorino still looking for work, getting a minor league deal with Cubs.....

Indians' Abraham Almonte popped positive for PEDs. 80 game suspension for him.

Rafael Betancourt calls it a career.

http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2016/2/2...er-fowler-mess

Wierdest team in baseball!

Minor league deal with the cubs after 5 years in Japan. Can't believe it's been at least that long since he was in the Rich Harden trade. Remember Rich Harden? 100 pitches 4.2 innings. Everytime.

What's Alcantara up to? Padres could use a utility bat. Ross for Soler, Alcantara, and a reliever.

Rickie Weeks on minor deal to Arizona....could be a good veteran presence on the bench for those kids....

Ian Desmond finally finds a home. Goes to the Rangers on a 1 year deal. The plan is for him to play left field.

Kawasaki alone gets you those players.

Ian Desmond to the Rangers?

There was chatter they might stick him in left field.

I know he made some bad money moves. Nationals sent him a $15 mil. qualifying offer and he turned that down.

And I guess they also offered him a $100+ extension back in 2013.

He might've gotten a long term deal had the dumb rule of giving up a draft pick if you sign a free agent hadn't been in place. They need to get rid of that.

The team losing a player getting a pick is fine. The signing team shouldn't be penalized for trying to get better.

I'm really interested in seeing how the qualifying offer will be treated next year if it stays following the next CBA negotiation. Rasmus, Wieters, and Brett Anderson finally jumped at it this year and I'm convinced that Murph would have taken it were he not coming off of one of the best postseason performances of all time. But Fowler and Desmond still got burned.

The cost might go up even higher to around $16.5-17 million or so. You might just see teams starting to balk at even offering it because eventually guys are just gonna accept that they aren't going to get anywhere near that type of AAV on their next deal and they'll just bet on themselves to put up good numbers.

Also...5 more weeks. Fuck me this is going to feel like the longest Spring Training ever, especially since the Mets have almost their entire 25 man roster decided already. I guess 2 bullpen spots are officially up for grabs but 2 of the incumbents from last year already have the inside track.

Blue Jays sign Rafael Soriano to a minor league deal with a Spring Training invite.

Os aren't letting Jones pie anyone any more because someone might get hurt.

If someone gets hurt with a pie in the face...they probably would get hurt randomly some other way

Yankees' Aroldis Chapman got suspended for 30 games for violating MLB's domestic violence policy.

Smacking a bitch gets you 30 games.... seems about right....I'm assuming he still gets to participate in Spring Training games?

Os played a 4-4 tie with the braves

I expect Jose Reyes to get much worse then.

Any chance store doesn't have the closer job 100 percent?

No chance. Soriano was brought on in the event he finds some smoke and mirrors as a middle reliever. Storen is their guy until he gives them a reason not to be.

Roberto Osuna may have something to say about that.....kid did a great job last year, if he pitches like he did last year, hard to take the ball away from him....

Storen was quality last year ,and why make a move for a guy to not give him the 9th. But Osuna is supposedly challenging.

The Royals ripped up Salvador Perez' old contract, which was disgustingly favorable for the team. They only owed him $16.75 million total over the next 4 years.

Now he'll still get $2 million this year but the rest of the deal was ripped up and he'll get $52.5 million over 5 years beginning in 2017.

While it looks like the Royals were simply just doing the right thing to reward their World Series MVP, I can only assume they feared that eventually he was going to be pissed off at being so underpaid and it might have led to a NFL-style holdout.

Also risky considering the insane workload they've given Perez, barely any days off behind the plate. He'll be 35 by the time he's 28.

I never felt good or safe when Soriano was in there

Osuna was good and I'm not married to the one guy being appointed closer approach. I just don't think they'd go out and acquire Storen simply to use him as a late inning reliever.

I believe it's Storen's job to lose simply due to his experience and Osuna's lack thereof, but Osuna will definitely be first in line should Storen struggle in Spring Training or to open the season....In my eyes, the leash on Storen should be short, not for anything he has or hasn't done, but simply for what Osuna accomplished last year.... incentivizing/rewarding employees and whatnot....

Chris Davis hit the first of many more homers today..but the Os lost cause the braves had a 7 run 1st off Ubaldo

lol MLB Facebook page posted a gif of Severino striking out a Tiger, conveniently did not post a gif of the grand slam he gave up to a backup catcher the following inning

Yoenis Cespedes spent $7,000 on a grand champion hog..............only to have it butchered.

Obviously he's drawn the ire of PETA.

Osuna/Storen/Cecil. Pretty solid 1-2-3 punch on paper. I have a feeling Sanchez is going to join them in the pen. Dickey-Stroman-Estrada-Happ and Gavin Floyd are my picks to head up the rotation. Hopefully Hutchison is sent to Siberia.

This whole Bautista situation has me feeling like this is going to be a looooooong year for the Jays. I don't think they make the playoffs and in fact, I'm picking them to finish last in the division. Something just doesn't feel right.

Last year was definitely their window. I don't know about last in the division but I don't see another magical run this year

could still see the Jays winning a ton of games with their offense alone but yeah, it might wind up being a 2006 Mets type of deal where that "core" just had a one year window where the stars seemed to be aligning.

we'll see though, every team in the AL East has flaws.

Better save Hutchison for games vs the Orioles, hes 5-3 in 12 games vs the Os with 70ks whuch is the most vs any team.