The ball is rolling

Though there have been some small moves in the past couple weeks, mostly Dayton Moore shuffling around loose parts in KC, trade season officially opened up today with the shipping of Carlos Lee to Texas for Laynce Nix, Kevin Mench, and Francisco Cordero. This kind of seems like a deal that could work out for both teams. Obviously, the Rangers get Lee, but the Brewers needed a guy like Cordero after Turnbow's recent implosion and Mench should be able to be decently productive, though he's not playing very well this year. Of course Cordero has been struggling lately as well and Mench is certainly not Lee, so maybe it won't work out. This is somewhat interesting to Pirate fans because Mench's bulbous melon is a perennial DL trade target (which is amusing because as much as the org seems to hate guys like Craig Wilson, they keep trying to trade for clones of him).

Meanwhile, DL is still just sitting there. The rumors haven't changed recently, Torres here, Hernandez there, Wilson here, Casey there, maybe some interest in Kip Wells. The longer DL goes without making a deal, the more likely he is to get swindled or to not make a deal at all, as far as I'm concerned. It's just kind of painful to watch the same tired act over and over again.