Not really needed to be honest.

Tampa Bay signed Pat Burrell on a 2 year deal worth $16 million

This off-season has been silly

The Yankees have got to win something this year or else there will be MEGA changes there.

Manny Ramirez without a team aswell. What goes around comes around eh Manny

The Jays off-season has been ridiculous. They've lost their #2 starter, they'll be without their #3 starter for the full season and their #4 starter is out until May at the earliest. So what does Riccardi do? He tries to sign a SS and that's pretty much it - FFS!

Hopefully this will be his final season in Toronto.

Just trying to think of our starting rotation for next year



Doc
McGowan (From May)
Litsch
Purcey
Janssen?

That's pretty much what I reckon. They will likely throw in Richmond until Dustin is back. I think there was also talk of starting Downs. Not really sure who else out of the BP would be up to the task.

we have Matt Clement invited to Spring Training also

i dont understand the situation with ramirez can no1 fit him under the cap tampa bay should have a loo kif theyy have the space

People don't want to give him big money for more than 2 years due to his age, we(yankees) will probably sign him.

True, but I'm not pinning my hopes on that move! Chances are it'll be another Retardi special.

I'll let you know once I've had a look at him.

Clement was great a few years back with the Cubs, you should have looked at Pavano, Shilling is still on the market..

Our idiot GM has pretty much said we're not signing anybody else. Muppet!

thats sound fair enough but your still going get results from him

Credit crunch? What film is the quote in your sig from? Land of the dead?

They're using that excuse but we've just dropped a substantial salary in Burnett and they were prepared to shell out for Furcal.



Bubba Ho-Tep

burell is a good signing for usa rays some more power

There are rumours that the White Sox are trying to trade Gavin Floyd for Brian Roberts from the Orioles.Were going to have no starting pitching left at the start of the season if they keep trading them away.

Same boat as us. Our games should be nice high scoring affairs then.



Roberts is a very good player though. Always plays well against the Jays.

Good trade for both teams

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Of course, Vernon Wells is already injured.

Are you getting any coverage of the World Baseball Classic in Europe? I watched quite a bit of it this weekend. The Cloggies beating the Dominicans was a bit crackers. The Canada-USA game was great, with the Canucks on their home turf and a 40k+ crowd. This one went down to the wire with the Canucks just falling short in the 9th to lose by 1.

Jeebus it's great to be watching baseball again.