This makes the Cota thing more confusing

The Bucs apparently signed Einar Diaz to a minor league contract today. Back in the day Diaz was the successor to Sandy Alomar Jr. in Cleveland, but he's had mostly a journeyman career since then, playing for Texas, Montreal, St. Louis, and 3 games with the Dodgers last year. He's essentially Cota in six years, though signing a guy like him to a minor league deal makes more sense (to me at least to me) than keeping Cota on the 40-man. From the same article we learn that San Diego claimed Craig Stansberry off of waivers and the Mets are involved in the Suppan bidding. Soup's agent says he's going to wait until Zito signs to make a decision, meaning that the Pirates probably have no realistic shot at him. That's not really a bad thing.