You gotta love paying someone more after their prime than during it.

The proposed Mets and Blue Jays trade looks like a three-for-four trade with RHP R.A. Dickey, C Josh Thole, and a Mets prospect going to the Blue Jays for C Travis D'Arnaud, RHP Noah Syndergaard, C John Buck, and a prospect.

The Blue Jays smell blood in the water as they are about to gut their minor league system in two off season trades. Hard to believe they would give up D'Arnaud and Syndergaard for Dickey. They probably think they can sign him to an extension or the prospect coming back has to be pretty good. If true this would be a real nice trade for the Mets.

While Trout is most likely on PEDs of some form, he looked like an incredible player for a good part of last season. Too bad they probably don't have the pitching to win, but he is the type of guy that could carry a team for a long stretch and potentially in the playoffs.

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RAD Icky agrees to a 2 yr/$25M extension with Blue Jays. Trade will go through.

I think we should call him Rad Icky from now on.

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That money is nuttier than anyone else this off season. He had one good year. He doesn't even throw 350+ innings the way a proper Knuckleballer should.

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You cannot make me care about the WNBA.

Actually, I wonder how he will do in the AL. Correct me if I am wrong, but a lot of hitters in the NL probably were not facing a knuckleballer often, but Wakefield may still be in recent enough memory for coaches to plan a hitting approach against.

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You might want to look again at the Elephants. They are much better than most people think.

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Re: Dickey:

In the dome, the knuckler will probably float even more.

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Angels trade Kendry Morales to Mariners for Jason Vargas.

Great move for SEA. Esp. if Kendrys returns to All-Star form.

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AJ to the Rangers on a 1 yr deal. AJ and Soto holding down the fort in Arlington.

Well that is definitely the most burrito catching tandem in the league

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Maybe Soto can teach AJ how to trim his eyebrows.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

$7.5M

Liriano to Pirates. 2 yr/$14M

I bet he no hits the Cubs next year

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The Red Sox and Pirates have agreed to a deal that will send Joel Hanrahan to Boston, according to Jim Bowden of ESPN.com (on Twitter). Jerry Sands and Stolmy Pimentel will go to Pittsburgh in the swap and there will be more players involved in the deal.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

That piss ass hanrahan.

Cody Ross signed with the D'Bags for 3yr/$26M.

The Indians have agreed to sign Nick Swisher to a 4yr/$56M deal. Swisher also get a $14M vesting option in year five that could boost the overall value to $70M.

2013: The off season of bad money. Shesh.

Swisher is better than any outfielder the White Sox have. Good thing Kenny gave him away for nothing after spending Gio to get him.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

I'll take Rios over Swisher any day. Swisher benefits from a loaded lineup and a short RF porch.

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And that would be a mistake. Rios had a career season last year and it's as good as what Swisher does every single year. Swisher is well worth $15 million a year. What "loaded lineup" has Swisher played in? He's been the best outfielder on his team every season except the one he was with the Sox and 2011 when Granderson- a guy who really benefits from his park- might have been the best player in baseball.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Id say Swisher and Rios are close but Rios has had two awful years. Swisher had one.

I'm not looking at their Reference pages as I type this but I know Rios is right around 100 for his career in OPS+ and Swisher has to be around 120. Swisher gets on base about 36% of the time and slugs about .470.

A lot of Sox fans judge Swisher based on that one season. I have this argument with my buddy who I go to Sox games with all the time. He hates Swisher and he's just wrong about how good the guy is.

Haven't we acknowledged by now that the goof was Guillen? That being the case I don't think his scapegoating of players like Swisher and Vazquez holds much water.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

I loved when Swisher played 1st base. A lefthander is so much more graceful around the bag.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

Piss on Nick Swisher.

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See what I mean about Sox fans.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

We're irrational.

Dirty 30 cocksucker.

And he married Joanna Garcia.

Fucker.

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--yet I can't look away."