Seeing yahoo endorsing 'cash leagues'...I wonder if they get a rake? If they do, this could spell an issue with fantasy w/MLB perhaps?

That Burnett deal took forever to go through.There aren't too many teams where throwing Burnett in at the front of the rotation would improve the team, but Pittsburgh is one of the few teams that improves from bringing him. And at $6.5 a season its at an understandable price. Pitching in the NL at a more pitcher friendly ball park should help him out.

I just read the Yanks might be able to sign Raul Ibanez for a cool million? If so, that's a great deal for them. I realize he's in decline but with his left handed power, he should do quite well at the new wind tunnel that is the right field at Yankee Stadium.

Bold prediction.

End of the day, wins are often a by product of a teams production and he will be pitching for the Pirates. 13 wins....obtainable but there will be a challenge there for him.I don't think any Pirates pitchers got 13 wins for them last season?

i bet burnett ends up winning 13 games at least

The New York Yankees today announced they have traded right-handed pitcher A.J. Burnett and cash considerations to Pittsburgh in exchange for minor leaguers RHP Diego Moreno and OF Exicardo Cayones.

Moreno, 25, combined to make 41 relief appearances with Single-A Bradenton and Double-A Altoona in 2011, going 2-4 with a 3.63 ERA (44.2IP, 18ER). He struck out 45 batters and held opponents to a .218 (36-for-165) batting average. In five minor league seasons (2007-11), he has combined to strike out 212 batters in 194.0 innings pitched over 116 games (six starts). A native of Higuerote, Venezuela, Moreno was signed by the Pirates as a non-drafted free agent on August 21, 2006.

Cayones, 20, was signed as a non-drafted free agent on July 4, 2008, out of Valencia, Venezuela. In three minor league seasons, he has batted .272 (128-for-471) with 34 doubles, seven triples, one home run and 68 RBI in 149 games, appearing at all three outfield positions. He split the 2011 season between the GCL Pirates and short-season Single-A State College, combining to hit .228 (26-for-114) in 38 games.

Burnett, 35, was signed by the Yankees as a free agent on December 18, 2008, to a five-year contract. In his three seasons with the club, he went 34-35 with a 4.79 ERA (584.0IP, 311ER) in 99 games (98 starts). His 58 wild pitches recorded during his three-year stint with the Yankees (2009-11) were the most for any Major League pitcher over a three-season span since Tony Cloninger threw 62 wild pitches from 1964 through 1966, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.

He posted an 11-11 record with a 5.15 ERA (190.1IP, 109ER) in 33 appearances (32GS) with the Yankees in 2011, setting career-highs in home runs allowed (31) and tying a career-high in earned runs allowed, while ranking first with a franchise-record 25 wild pitches – the most by any Major League pitcher in a single season since the start of the 2000s and the fifth most since 1900.

This is unprecedented. Ryan Braun won the appeal and will not be suspended

He won because someone forgot FedEx's hours, not because of incorrect testing results. Winning on a technicality isn't going to do much to clear the cloud of suspicion around him.

Anyway, Oswalt's sitting the season out for now in the hopes that someone gets injured before midseason.

Jim Bowden of MLB Network Radio reports that Ryan Zimmerman will earn $100 million with his new six-year extension.
Bowden also says he'll get the no-trade clause he was looking for. The new deal is added on to the end of his current contract, meaning he'll earn $126 million over the next eight years, with the Nationals holding an option for 2020 that could bring the deal to a total of $150 million. Interestingly, the guaranteed money is the exact same amount Jayson Werth signed for last offseason, though Werth's deal was for seven years. The third baseman is a career .288/.355/.479 hitter across seven seasons, all of which, of course, he has played for the Nationals.

Ken Rosenthal of FOXSports.com reports that the Cardinals and Yadier Molina are close to a five-year contract extension in the range of $70-75 million.
The new deal would put Molina in the range of $14-15 million per season, which would be the second-highest AAV (average annual value) ever for a catcher behind Joe Mauer's current deal. This contract would be wonderful news for fellow catchers Miguel Montero, Mike Napoli and Russell Martin, who are all scheduled to become free agents next offseason. Joe Strauss of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Monday afternoon that Molina's deal could be finalized by Friday.

Sorry, Heavy.

Good catcher but c'mon now, STL.

Sorry, Heavy.

Good catcher but c'mon now, STL.