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Barajas and Dee Gordon show other teams how it's done

Essentially doing him a favor by seeing if any team wants him.

Personally I'd love to see him make it back.

Looks like they are going to have to deal away John Lannan as well now.

Daniel Herrera too.

Cubbies will pay 15 million of Zambrano's 18 million in salary.

Impressive haul for the A's. ------ "Cole, a 19-year-old right-hander, posted a 108/24 K/BB ratio in 89 innings this past season at the Single-A level. Peacock, a 23-year-old righty, had a 2.39 ERA and 177/47 K/BB ratio in 146 2/3 innings between Double-A and Triple-A in 2011. Norris, a 22-year-old catcher, has an .861 career OPS in the minors. Milone registered a 155/16 K/BB ratio in 148 1/3 innings this past season at Triple-A."

Impressive pieces moved around here.

Update: Bluejays are the other team joining Redsox, Padres and Rockies pushing hardest for Niese. via Sherman

Doubt anything gets done before winter meetings, but nice to see we're going to get something started.

Someone has been reading Blueshirt Banter

Not really Mets related, but I felt that this falls under general baseball humor.

The Mets have to be able to do better than that, right?

Obviously some concern as he has suffered two season ending injuries at the same position in consecutive years, but I still think he should be top dog for the 2B job. That said, this is looking like the beginning of Murphy not having a starting job with the team.