Evening round-up (from mlbtraderumors.com):

Signings and annoucements galore today. Let's get to it.

Gertner, along with Darren Oliver, they also sign Aaron Laffey to a deal.

Yankees take back Andruw Jones for another season. 1-year, $2 mil. with $1.4 mil. in in incentives. He's the 4th outfielder yet again.

Cubs sign cuban prospects Yasiel Balaguert and Carlos Martinez.

Mariners officially sign George Sherrill to a 1-year, $1.1 mil. deal with incentives.

Padres aquire Carlos Quentin from the White Sox for pitching prospects Simon Castro and Pedro Hernandez.

Kenny Williams is having a fire sale in Chicago no pun intended.

Blue Jays aquire Jason Frasor from the White Sox for pitchers Myles Jaye and Daniel Webb.

Both Chicago teams seem to be in rebuilding mode.

Aguakate is very perceptive.

Yeah, yet you're not, since you didn't catch the sarcasm with which I wrote what I did. It happens.

BTW...when is Jerry going to fire Kenny Williams? He's got to have the longest leash ever.

Winning a World Series with a nothing team buys you some time.

Yeah but he was there before Ozzie, and he's gone.

Kenny Williams, I think, will be out the door soon. While he's picking up minor leaguers, none of them seem to be top prospect types. Not to mention, handing Danks that fat contract doesn't make sense in rebuild mode. Add to that the fact that his owner cheapens out on the draft every year, which handcuffs his GM when trying to trade for established players, and it just looks like the writing is on the wall.

lol christ, Jason " Tweek" Frasor is back convulsing in the 8th inning for Toronto.

Os got Jai Miller from the A's.

all together now!

JAI WHO?

Evening round-up:

A boat load of signings today. I'll just name the big ones.

Rangers aquire Brandon Snyder from the O's for cash.

Red Sox sign Carlos Silva to a minor league gig.

Coco Crisp stays with the A's. 2-years, $14 mil.

Cubs sign Reed Johnson. 1-year, $1.15 mil.

Jo-Jo Reyes to the Pirates on a minor league gig.

Edwin Jackson wants a 5-year deal and $15-17 million per. Mind you Scott Boras is his agent.

Mariners are the frontrunners for Hisashi Iwakuma.

Yu Darvish is in Dallas this week to try to get a deal together with the Rangers. Both sides are far apart in talks. He'll fly back to Japan at the end of the week to start offseason workouts. January 17th is the deadline.

Finally, it's unlikely the Yankees are going to sign Hiroyuki Nakajima. The deadline for that deal is this Friday at 4 Central time. Yankees see him as a bench guy and want to pay him bench player money.

Edwin Jackson wants a 5-year deal and $15-17 million per.

:rofl:

Pretty stunned Reed Johnson could only get 1 .15 mil. That's the type of player that's on championship teams.

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<s>@</s>AktanE No. <s>@</s>MLBInsideNews is right---(Adam) Jones to Atl, Crisp then traded from Oak to Bal for Davis & a midlevel pitching prospect

5 hours ago

Can't believe they're back on this trade and they want to replace Adam Jones with Coco fucking Crisp just to get Jurrjens and Prado.

Lol if that's true. If they could get Prado and Jurrgens and they don't, wow. But is Jones really worth that much? No.

I cant even imagine getting psyched up every night to see Coco Crisp in CF.

ugh

Crisp already agreed to re-sign in Oakland. He's not going to be involved in trade talks.

I don't have any news to talk about, but I just wanted to let you all know that Francisco Cordero's agent's name is Bean Stringfellow.


And frankly, I think that's neat.

That is neat.

<font color=goldenrod>Fernando Rodney signs a 1-year deal with the Rays.</font>

Joe Torre quits his job with MLB in order to join a new group placing their bid to buy the Dodgers.

http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/mlb/s...ngeles-dodgers

the rumor was the Os would Send Chris Davis and a prospect to Oakland for Crisp.

Yeah, but why would Crisp agree to a deal only to be traded in a matter of hours? Surely the Player's Union would have a problem with it.

<font color=goldenrod>Marlins on the verge of acquiring Carlos Zambrano</font> :lol:

Probably the biggest move that was bound to happen this offseason.

If Big Z goes to Miami, I sure hope he don't blow up that brand spankin' new stadium the Marlins just built. Can't recall how many times he went ballistic in Wrigleyville.

Hanley, Ozzie, and Chubby Z in the same clubhouse. Love it.

Don't forget the token white guy, Logan Morrison.

<font color=goldenrod>Apparently Selig encouraged and asked Torre to quit and try to buy the Dodgers...much like he encouraged Sandy Alderson to leave his job with MLB to be the Mets GM. Kinda interesting how Selig tries to use his guys to bail out troubled franchises.

This is Selig's last year on the job before retirement. Holding out hope that he takes the Mets from the Wilpons before he leaves.</font>

Yeah, and maybe he'll let Pete come back too! :)

Hope Zambrano rages on the fucking aquarium that will be where a normal backstop should be

<font color=goldenrod>Mets bring back Scott Hairston. Fine by me, they needed a righty outfield option off the bench...even if he is a bit of a homer-or-nothing guy.

World Series here we come!</font>

Even Arod is scared of going after....the belt!

http://how-i-met-your-mother.wikia.c..._Threeway_Belt

I dont want to see Adam Jones go, but if they can rape the Braves for two of their top pitching prospects plus Jurrjens and/or Prado then they might as well go ahead and do it.

Also, "talented but unproductive" lol...

lol @ Marlins, team Latinos

Pretty sure every team is team Latinos.

I think even the Marlins owner stated before that was his goal to fill the team with Latinos in order to make the fans come to the stadium considering every other trick never worked for the long term.

Even the years the actually won WS titles, they barely had anyone showing up except for the playoffs.

Tampa Bay has the same problem although not as laughable bad as the Marlins. Then again Florida isn't really a sports spot except for college football and the Miami Dolphins.

Anthony Rizzo headed to the Cubs in a 4 player deal that sends Rizzo and Zach Catas to the Cubs for Andrew Cashner and Kyung-Min Na.