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Only moments after pulling out of an "imminent" deal with New York for lefty ace Cliff Lee, Seattle has reportedly agreed to send Lee along with reliever Mark Lowe to Texas in exchange for first baseman Justin Smoak and three other prospects. We'll have to wait and see who the three other prospects are, but this is still a strange move for the Rangers regardless. With severe financial troubles, the Rangers will ...

A rumored deal that would send Mariner's star lefty Cliff Lee to the Yankees for top prospect Jesus Montero, along with infielder David Adams and pitcher Zach McAlister, is apparently off. The Mariners have allegedly balked due to concerns over David Adams bad ankle, which he injured breaking up a double play while at Double-A Trenton about a month ago. Seattle GM Jack Zduriencik will almost certainly move his All-Star starter. But with ...

First off, let me preface the rest of this post by saying that I am vehemently opposed to requiring that each team have a representative in the MLB All-Star game. Especially if MLB insists on using the All-Star game to determine home-field advantage for the World Series, watering down each team for some bogus “everyone’s a winner” type of reason is insane. But since I am hamstringed by this rule, I’ll work ...

The Philadelphia Phillies have come out of the gate smoking baseballs all over the yard. And into the neighbor's yard too.  It's getting to the point that their start is drawing historic comparisons.   They've played seven games and scored 50 runs, an average of over seven runs a game.  Extrapolated out over the course of the season it puts these Phillies at 1,157 runs, far and away a Major League ...

There's been some chatter recently about realigning the teams of Major League Baseball.á Perhaps it's because the collective bargaining agreement is about up for re-negotiating or maybe it's simply due to the fact that there isn't a whole lot of substance to write about the first week of Spring Training. Nevertheless, it's an interesting topic to debate, but I find myself on the side that believes baseball's six-division structure works well ...