so he trades for a bunch of scrubs?

yea he free'd the space which is great but he got trade raped

The Red Sox will acquire left-handed reliever Craig Breslow from the Diamondbacks, Jack Magruder of FOXSportsArizona.com reports (Twitter links). The Red Sox will send Matt Albers and Scott Podsednik to Arizona to complete the trade.

Now they can put Morales into the rotation like they would like

The Pirates are close to acquiring first baseman Gaby Sanchez from the Marlins for outfielder Gorkys Hernandez and a competitive balance pick, tweets Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports.

2:04pm: The Tigers and Cubs are hard at work on Soriano, tweets David Kaplan of CSNChicago.com, but he's not sure if they can make the money work. Soriano is owed $42.3MM through 2014.

2:14pm: The Cubs say Soriano is likely to stay put, though an August deal is possible, tweets Bob Nightengale of USA Today.

If this goes down then Theo is a fuckin genius...even though Soriano is a way better overall player this year then in years past.


"David Kaplan ‏@thekapman

Ok, told that Cubs have several balls in air. Soriano, Dempster, Garza, and handful of other possibles on big league roster and in minors."

This post was edited by apholis on Jul 31 2012 01:18pm

The Reds and other teams are pursuing Royals closer Jonathan Broxton, tweets Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports. The Rangers are out.

~40 minutes left til deadline

Ken Rosenthal ‏@Ken_Rosenthal

Official: Sanchez deal to #Pirates is done.

god help whatever team gets broxton. hopefully the giants take him lol