Lee Sinins's daily reports are a great place to get your baseball news in digest form. There were several juicy rumours and of course some trades (both high and low impact) on the penultimate day before the "first" trading deadline. Here are the trades in distilled form:
LA gets Brad Penny, Hee Seop Choi and minor league P Bill Murphy
FLA gets Guillermo Mota, Paul Lo Duca and Juan Encarnacion
METS get Kris Benson, minor league 2B Jeff Keppinger
PIT gets Ty Wigginton, minor league P Matt Peterson, INF Jose Bautista
KCR gets mior league C Justin Huber
TBD gets minor league Ps Scott Kazmir and Jose Diaz
METS get Victor Zambrano and minor league P Bartolome Fortunato
SFG gets Ricky Ledee, minor league P Alfredo Simon
PHI gets Felix Rodriguez
PHI gets Todd Jones, minor league OF Brad Correll
CIN gets minor league P Josh Hancock and minor league SS Anderson Machado
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