The New York Yankees have resigned left-handed reliever Damaso Marte to a three year deal, reportedly worth a total of $12 million. The Yankees acquired Marte from the Pirates last season in a deal at the trade deadline and apparently liked what they saw enough to bring him back.
The hard throwing reliever saw his ERA [...]

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The Boston Red Sox have traded the best name in baseball (Coco Crisp) to the Kansas City Royals for flame throwing reliever Ramon Ramirez.

Ramirez has a blazing fastball and will likely become the setup man for All-Star Red Sox closer Jonathan Pablebon. Ramirez pitched 71 2/3rds innings last year and compiled an ERA of 2.64 along with 70 Ks.

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The Chicago Cubs have resigned free agent starting pitcher Ryan Dempster. ESPN.com is reporting that the deal is worth $52 million over 4 years.
Dempster, a long time Cub, was leaning towards returning but wanted to test the market, presumably to up his price after a great year in which he won 17 games and had [...]

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The St. Louis Cardinals are reportedly working on a deal to send All-Star outfielder Ryan Ludwick to the Colorado Rockies in exchange for slugger Matt Holliday.
Ludwick enjoyed a break out year last year batting .299 with 37 home runs and 113 RBI while Holliday hit .321 with 25 long balls, and 88 runs driven in. [...]

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The Florida Marlins have reportedly traded their power hitting first baseman, Mike Jacobs to the Royals. In exchange [...]

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The St. Louis Cardinals have inked starter Kyle Lohse to a 4 year deal worth a reported $41 million. Lohse blossomed under Cardinal pitching coach Dave Duncan winning 15 games and losing only 6. The veteran pitcher struggled to catch on with a team last winter until the Cardinals stepped up and signed the pitcher [...]

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Update 5: Well, if Sports Illustrated’s Jon Heyman is to be believed, the title of this post may be accurate once again! Apparently the deal has Manny Ramirez (I hold him personally responsible for this whole mess) going to the Dodgers, Jason Bay heading to the Boston Red Sox, and the Pirates getting 4 prospects [...]

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Well, if we were to believe all the different sources that have said a trade for Jason Bay is a done deal, he’d have been traded about 23 times by now.
However, this being a rumor site, it would be remiss of us to not tell you that MLB.com is reporting that the Los Angeles Dodgers [...]

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Update 2: Ken Rosenthall has said this one is dead barring a miracle. So that’s the end of that right? Bay is staying a Pirate right? Maybe not. I’ll have a post up shortly.

Update: MLB.com is NOW reporting that the deal isn’t finalized just yet. I realize all the MLB reporters want to be the [...]

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Buster Olney is citing a source that claims the likely hood of the A’s completing any more trades before todays deadline is “less than 1%.”
The A’s have been busy players as we approached the deadline dealing both Joe Blanton and Rich Harden. However, it appears that other Oakland players that had been rumored to be [...]

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