James Shields

With only a few more days left to the trade deadline,  you can expect deals to heat up in the coming days and buyers and sellers to get desperate.  Here’s your Wednesday rumors to keep an eye on: –The Brewers Rickie Weeks suffered a possible sprained ankle in tonight’s game and a trip to the DL [...]

The Tampa Bay Rays have pulled James Shields off the market, Danny Knobler of CBSSports.com reports. Though the Rays never really had any interest in trading their very affordable ace, they did put his name out there to gauge the interest in him. Shields is set to earn $7 million in 2012, $9 million in 2013 [...]

Here’s the latest from Nick Cafardo of The Boston Globe: – Boston Red Sox CEO Larry Lucchino was surprised to hear that the team can’t afford to do much at the trade deadline. – The Red Sox could go after an outfielder, a shortstop and a left-handed reliever. – The rumor is that Cubs’ owner Tom Ricketts has [...]

Earlier this month, we learned that the Arizona Diamondbacks were looking for bullpen help, although they’re not ready to deal top end prospects to get it. Today, John Gambadoro of 620 KTAR in Phoenix tweeted that the D’backs have had discussions with the Blue Jays regarding pitching help. Gamboro expects the Diamondbacks to show interest in [...]

Here’s the latest from Ken Rosenthal and Jon Paul Morosi of FOX Sports: – Rosenthal expects the trade deadline to be crazy this year, but he doesn’t expect to see the big names changing teams as in years past. – The Tampa Bay Rays may deal if GM Andrew Friedman believes that he cannot catch the Yankees [...]

Here are a few notes regarding some Major League pitchers: – Jake Peavy made his first MLB relief appearance today against the Nationals. White Sox’s starter, John Danks, left the game with a strained left oblique in the second inning and Peavy came on to pitch from the fourth inning on, with just two days rest. [...]

Here’s the latest from FOXSport’s Ken Rosenthal: – Rival executives to the Tampa Bay Rays are speculating that the team will become sellers at the deadline in the wake of the Manny Ramirez retirement and the injury to Evan Longoria. Candidates that could be moved are James Shields and B.J. Upton. – One scout close to [...]

With the 2011 season just a few weeks away, all 30 MLB teams are hopeful that the moves they made during the off-season would help them solve all of their problems. During the first couple of weeks of spring games, the teams will find out how they actually did during the winter. But once the season begins [...]

Here’s the latest from The Boston Globe’s Nick Cafardo: – Cafardo lists the Boston Red Sox, Washington Natinoals, Chicago White Sox, Baltimore Orioles, Arizona Diamondbacks and San Diego Padres as winners at last week’s Winter Meetings. – The losers from last week? The Los Angeles Angels, Oakland Athletics, New York Yankees, New York Mets and Tampa [...]

Here’s the latest from The Boston Globe’s Nick Cafardo: It would take a lot to trade for the Kansas City Royal’s Zack Greinke. The Boston Red Sox will do their research and it helps that assistant GM Allard Baird was the GM with the Royals during Greinke’s early years. However, the Sox may be storing up [...]