According to Corey Brock over at MLB.com, The Cardinals and Padres agreed to a deal that would send four time all star Jim Edmonds to the Pads and 3B David Freese to the Cards.

The 37 year old Edmonds hit 252. with 12 Homers in 117 Games this year.

Padres GM Kevin Towers is famous for these low risk high reward deals, we’ll see if this one works out.

According to Ken Gurnick over at MLB.com, Japanese Right Hander Hiroki Kuroda finalized a three year deal worth about 35.3m

Kuroda went 12-8 with the Hiroshima Carp in Japan last year.

Heres a quote from Pettitte:

“In 2002 I was injured. I had heard that human growth hormone could promote faster healing for my elbow,”

“I felt an obligation to get back to my team as soon as possible. For this reason, and only this reason, for two days I tried human growth hormone. Though it was not against baseball rules, I was not comfortable with what I was doing, so I stopped.

This is it — two days out of my life; two days out of my entire career, when I was injured and on the disabled list,” he said. “I wasn’t looking for an edge. I was looking to heal.”

According to Ken Rosenthal at Foxsports.com, The Chicago Cubs and Kosuke Fukudome have agreed to a 4 year deal. The deal is expected to be for approximately 12m a year.

We’ll see which Matsui he’ll follow in the footsteps of.

Over at Metsblog.com, Matthew Cerrone cites Jon Heyman of SI.com, saying the Mets balked at the price of 4 pitching prospects plus Carlos Gomez or Fernando Martinez for Johan Santana.

Im assuming the pitching prospects would be Humber, Mulvey, Niese, Pelfrey, and Guerra. The only one i would hesitate to deal is Guerra, just because he has so much upside as a 19 year old kid. If im Omar, I pull the trigger on Gomez plus the above 4, Keeping Martinez and Guerra Around.

According to ESPN.com, The Yankees are close to signing free agent RP Latroy Hawkins to a one year deal worth close to 3.75m

 Appearing in 62 games last year, Hawkins compiled a 3.42 ERA in 55.1 innings

 From what I saw of Hawkins in the playoffs, he seems to be back to his old form. Decent Sign for the Yanks.

Over at Metsblog.com, Matt Cerrone gives us an update on the Willis to Mets rumors. The rumor had Pudge Rodriguez and Dontrelle Willis going to the Mets, with the Mets taking on a large chunk of Rodriguez’s salary. This rumor is not true and will not happen in the near future.

I didn’t think that this had any truth to it, nevertheless, the Hot Stove is on Fire. Its that time of year ladies and gentlemen

Appearing on ESPN’s Baseball Tonight, Buster Olney says that the Twins and Yankees are still at a crossroads on a Johan Santana deal. The proposed deal is still Phil Hughes, Melky Cabrera, and a third player. The Twins still want that third player to be Ian Kennedy, but the Yankees have rejected that on a few occasions.

The sooner Johan gets dealt, the sooner we can all focus on the rest of the market

David Wright and Carlos Beltran won their 1st and 2nd gold gloves respectively. Jimmy Rollins received the gold glove at shortstop.

So not only does Rollins beat us, he gets the gold glove. Salt to the wound. Anyway, good job Dave and Carlos.

According to ESPN.com, The Atlanta Braves traded SS Edgar Renteria to the Tigers for RHP Jair Jurrjens and OF Gorkys Hernandez.

This means Yunel Escobar the job at SS. Solid trade for the Braves. They add pitching depth and OF depth with Andruw Jones departing.

Longtime Mets Spanish Broadcaster Billy Berroa passed away On Wednesday. He was 79

No Playoff series is tied. all series are at 2-0.

The Dbacks are on top 2-0 over the Cubs due in big part to good pitching performances by Brandon Webb and Doug Davis

The Tribe Lead the Yanks 2-0, on the back of CC Sabathia and Fausto Carmona, undoubtedly the best 1-2 punch in the playoffs.

If you’ve never seen Carmona pitch, try to next game, its a real treat.

The Rockies head home, up 2-0, after young gun Jeff Francis and that deep Rockies lineup lead the team to 2 victories in the Philly.

Bury the Sillies!

The Red Sox head to LA up 2-0 after Manny Ramirez’s walk off 3 run homer off of Francisco Rodriguez.

Red Sox just too good for the Angels.
     

Through Thursday Night :

Rockies were up 2 games to none against the Phillies

Red Sox 1 game to none against the Halos

DBacks 1 game to none against the Cubbies

Tribe 1 game over the Skanks.

Well, as Mets Fans, at least we can root against the Yanks and Phils.

On the heels of their postseason defeat, the Mets learned today that, According to ESPN.COM, Scott Schoeneweis received six shipments of steroids during the 2003 and 2004 seasons while with the Chicago White Sox.

Wow. I wonder if this will affect his status for next year… Yes i am looking at you Guillermo.