A's signed Scott Kazmir to a 2 year, $22 million deal. A's originally wanted Tim Hudson but took Kazmir after Hudson signed with the Giants (2 year, $23 million).

Tigers save around $6 million from the trade while also currently having Drew Smyly replace Fister's spot in the rotation.

Goddamnit those are all perfect Washington Nationals player names being traded away and ruining my theory that only players with weird last names play for the Washington Nationals. This really hurts.

Fister is a pretty good name though. Not a huge loss actually.

Looks like the Tigers are saying "Fuck it. Let's start over again with Miggy at the center of it all and go from there."

UPDATE: Daniel Hudson non-tendered by D'Backs. Sigh.

J.P Arencibia non-tendered after the Jays sign Navarro

Bye. Hope you get shot leaving Toronto.

O's trade Jim Johnson to the A's for Jemile Weeks.

Winter Meetings are gonna be boring.

J.P. was a highly touted catcher, supposed to be face of the franchise kind-of-guy.


LOL, but then he mostly sucked

Red Sox signed A.J. Pierzynski to a 1 year, $8.25 million deal. Talks between them and Jarrod Saltalamacchia broke down completely with the biggest issue being years since he wanted at least 3 years while the team was only willing to offer 1-2 years.


Tigers close to signing Joe Nathan after their previous choice of Brian Wilson dropped interest in potentially signing a deal.

D-Backs traded Heath Bell to the Rays. Rays also get Ryan Hanigan from Cincy.

#HeathBellExperience

GOODBYE

Tigers make a terrible trade getting rid of Fister. Were having such a good offseason too. Oh well.

HOT FUCKING STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE

Mariners officially joined the bidding war for Robinson Cano and according to ESPN, very unlikely the Yankees are keeping him unless they give him at least $200 million.


Jacoby Ellsbury is asking for at least a "Carl Crawford"-like deal (7 years, $142 million range) as the minimum for him to stay with the Red Sox and/or any other teams interested.

Yankees supposedly closing in on a deal for Ellsbury.

Fucking yuck.

Signed him to a 7 year, $153 million deal.


Surprised a bit it wasn't Seattle that got him since they were rumored to easily be willing to offer more than what the Sox and others would.

Going to feel dirty about this until his first good game, then I'll buy his jersey.

Going to be interesting what to do with Gardner if they play Ellsbury in center, seeing if he can stay healthy.

Horrible news.

McCann, Ellsbury, this is 2009 all over again. $189 is going out the window.

THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK! WE TURNED DAMON AFTER HIS WORLD SERIES, NOW WE BRING WELCOME ELLSBURY TO THE DARK SIDE AFTER HIS!

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Thats a horrible deal for Ellsbury. He's the one guy I wanted the Yankees to stay away from because of how overrated he has become. Terrible move if it means them missing out on Cano. Oh well.

Ellsbury is a trader

http://deadspin.com/angry-dumb-red-s...ium=socialflow

Hahahahhaha Yankees. hahahahahahahahahahhaahahahahahahah

Jays linked to Brett Anderson. Great idea for the Jays because I thought they lacked starting pitchers who get hurt.

Lol Gregg Zaun had a great comment: he hit 20 homers but 95 % of players could hit 20 in this park if they swung for the fences every time they went to bat.

I had such hopes for J.P. Navarro/Kratz are such a giant upgrade over Arencibia/Thole.

<font color=goldenrod>Oh, what was that? Another day where the Mets get linked to several free agents but don't actually pull the trigger on any of them? Shocker!</font>

Yankees to sign Kelly Johnson.

Window's closing, Cano. Better make a decision, quick.

They have to fill Josh Johnson's IR spot

Who are the Yankees planning on having in the outfield?

So far sounds like Gardner in left, Ellsbury in center, Soriano in right

You got Ichiro on the bench or as DH?

From ESPN and Rotoworld:

* Marlins signed Jarrod Saltalamacchia to a 3 year, $21 million deal

* Carlos Beltran expected to sign with the Royals with the deal being in the 3 years, $48 million range.

* Mariners rumored to be in a possible trade with the Dodgers for Matt Kemp although Dodgers would need to eat most of Kemp's contract in the deal.

* White Sox resigned Paul Konerko to a 1 year, $2.5 million deal

* Mets and Red Sox currently are going after Curtis Granderson with the Mets likely to offer the 4th year that he wants.

* Rockies signed Justin Morneau to a 2 year, $13 million deal

* Yankees increased their offer to Robinson Cano to now $175 million while the Mariners are rumored to be willing to offer around $200 million and 8 years.

Don't know why anyone would wanna play for the Marlins these days.

lots of talk of the mariners being a buyer for the last couple years, but haven't seen it happen yet.

I can see their switching DH/RF between Soriano and Ichiro, depending on what type of pitcher it is. Girardi loves his binder matchups.

From Rotoworld:

* Mets are very close to signing Curtis Granderson with the deal rumored to be in the range of $15+ million per year for 3-4 years.

* Red Sox signed Edward Mujica to a 2 year, $9.5 million deal.

* Brewers traded Norichika Aoki to the Royals in return for Will Smith. Brewers also stated Ryan Braun will take over Aoki's spot next year in RF.

* Dodgers currently in talks with Brian Wilson with the deal likely being 2 years with just the first year guaranteed.

* Red Sox currently rumored to be interested in Matt Kemp with the Dodgers willing to eat up most of his contract while the Sox are unsure how many players they would be willing to give up.

Hmmmm. With these new posting rules that might go into effect, the Rakuten Golden Eagles might not post Masahiro Tanaka.

Kinda sucks.

Apparently the Mariners are willing to offer Cano 10 years/230-240M.

I don't think the Yankees are getting near that number.

<font color=goldenrod>Mets are supposedly holding firm on a 3 year deal for Granderson. If the Red Sox or another team jump in with a guaranteed 4 year deal the Mets will probably miss out just like they did with Michael Bourn last year.</font>