After failing miserably with the Boston Red Sox following his success with the Texas Rangers, Eric Gagne has moved onto his third team after signing a one-year deal with the Milwaukee Brewers. Read more »
Baseball Analysis
Grading The Deal: Gagne Signs With Brewers
Grading The Deals: Guillen To K.C., Riske To Milwaukee
The Royals have been major players in the free agent market, making a big run at Andruw Jones while signing Jose Guillen, but they did lose David Riske to the Brewers. Read more »
Grading The Deal: Dodgers Sign Andruw Jones
There are six simple reasons why the $36.2 million deal Scott Boras and Ned Colletti negotiated for Andruw Jones ultimately benefits everyone and one of those reasons includes the number 129. Read more »
Grading The Deal: Cabrera And Dontrelle To Detroit
There is a new giant in the American League, as Dave Dombrowski pulled off a true blockbuster with the franchise he once ran. Read more »
Grading The Deal: Mets Cut Ties With Lasto
The Mets said that no team really wanted Lastings Milledge and this was the best deal that they could get for him. That still does not make it a good trade for Omar Minaya. Read more »
Grading The Deals: Hunter To Angels, Cordero To Cincinnati
Two major moves were made over the last week as Tori Hunter left the only team he has known, the Minnesota Twins, for the Los Angeles Angels and Francisco Cordero gave Cincy a big free agent splash. Read more »
Grading The Deal: Mets Trade Mota For Estrada
When the Yorvit Torreabla talks broke down, Omar Minaya looked upon the trade market to fill his need for a catcher and found his man in Milwaukee?s Johnny Estrada. The cost of the acquisition was merely Guillermo Mota. Read more »
Grading The Deal: Braves Sign Glavine
Tom Glavine, 41, returns to Atlanta after five seasons with the Mets which saw him win 61 games. He returns a consistent #3 starter behind John Smoltz and Tim Hudson. Read more »
Grading The Deal: Cabrera Traded To White Sox For Garland
The Angels had a surplus of shortstops, and the White Sox had a surplus of pitching. But the Angels already had a surplus of pitching, so is Monday's trade a precursor to Miguel Cabrera? Read more »
On The Block: Johan Santana
If Johan Santana is dealt this winter, he will command more than he did in 1999 when he was traded by Florida for Jared Camp. Just how good is he and how has he pitched in the parks he may call home next season? Read more »
Free Agent Report: Mike Lowell
Mike Lowell couldn't have picked a more opportune time to become a free agent. He benefited from Fenway Park in 2007, but to think he is simply a product of the Monster would be to ignore his previous numbers. Read more »
The Final RealGM.com Player Rankings For 2007
The 2007 season was filled with great individual performances, including Curtis Granderson, Jimmy Rollins and Hanley Ramirez. Find out who made our position-by-position top-five. Read more »
Grading The Deal: Lidge To Philadelphia
Ed Wade was impatient to move Brad Lidge this early in the offseason before teams that lose out on Francisco Cordero become more desperate, but at least he deal with his former club and drafted all three players himself. Read more »
Does Joe Torre Bleed Blue?
Can Joe Torre bring the Dodgers' out of their 20-year slumber by turning young talent like James Loney, Jonathan Broxton, Chad Billingsley, Russell Martin, Andrew Ethier, and Matt Kemp into a successful core the way he did with Derek Jeter, Bernie Williams, Andy Pettitte and Mariano Rivera? Read more »
Pirates Make Mistake With Russell
At least the Pirates didn't go with an expensive retread, but with a young and talented pitching staff, they may have done better to go the Bud Black route and convert a pitching coach into a manager. Read more »
The State Of The Franchise: Cleveland Indians
The Indians were one win away from the World Series, but they are very young, talented and cheap, which means they will remain an elite franchise for many seasons to come. Read more »
Free Agent Report: Alex Rodriguez
Without question, this is the winter of Alex Rodriguez. He is the best all-around player in the game, but he is also the most polarizing and the most scrutinized. Read more »
MLB Using Recent Success Of Expansion Teams As An Excuse To Expand
With two recent expansion teams finishing in the top four this season, Major League Baseball is wasting no time in projecting this success as a reason for expansion. Read more »
Grading The Deal: Renteria To Detroit
The Tigers needed to improve their club in order to compete with the Indians, Red Sox and Yankees and immediately did so this offseason by trading for Edgar Renteria, which was a necessary move even if the price was high. Read more »
More Than Just Money For A-Rod?
At this stage of his career, with eleven full seasons in the AL, it would be difficult to imagine Alex Rodriguez in a National League uniform, forced to learn the pitchers all over again in a pitching-rich league. Read more »