Following tonight’s game against the Tigers, the Tampa Bay Rays announced that they have traded Scott Kazmir to the Angels for prospects Alexander Torres, Matthew Sweeney, and a Player to Be Named Later.
Torres was 13-4 with a 2.75 ERA in Single-A Rancho Cucamonga and Double-A Arkansas this season.
Sweeney was hitting .299 with nine home runs [...]

Speaking of the trade deadline…
In 2004, on the trade deadline, Mets GM Jim Duquette traded a 20–year-old LHP Scott Kazmir to the Rays for Victor Zambrano, who had gone 21-17 in the previous two seasons.
Kazmir had been 25–17 with a 3.49 ERA in 358 innings, during which he struck out 405 batters.
However, this season, in [...]

Joel Sherman of the New York Post believes the Rays have shopped LHP Scott Kazmir to the Mets and Rangers.
According to Sherman, “Tampa is trying to see if they could trade Kazmir, Carlos Pena and in the right blockbuster even Carl Crawford to free up dollars to make a bigger trade.”
…the buzz around baseball seems [...]

Update, 3:20 pm:
MLB Trade Rumors is reporting that the Boston Red Sox have made a “strong offer” for Halladay.
The Red Sox reportedly offered Clay Buchholz, Michael Bowden and Ryan Westmoreland  for Halladay.
Original Post:
In a post to his blog for the New York Post, Joel Sherman is reporting that the Texas Rangers have entered the Roy Halladay [...]

Yesterday, Ed Price of AOL Fanhouse said the Rays may look to trade Scott Kazmir, which, according to other reports, could free up money to help them acquire a pitcher like Cliff Lee.
Buster Olney of ESPN.com later said the Angels are interested in acquiring Kazmir.
However, today, Mark Saxon of the OC Register says the Angels have not discussed Kazmir [...]

Ed Price of AOL Fanhouse says the Rays may look to move Scott Kazmir, which, according to other reports, could free up money to help them acquire a pitcher like Cliff Lee or Roy Halladay.
Buster Olney of ESPN.com believes the Angels are interested in acquiring Kazmir.
…i have been getting lots of e-mail from fans who [...]

To watch video of my interview with John Franco, during which we talk about his new role with the Mets and rumors about his involvement in the Scott Kazmir trade, click play below:

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At Gotham Baseball, Eric Stashin discusses the repercussions of trading Scott Kazmir in 2004.
Stashin writes:
“I don’t think that the Mets would have won a championship in ’06, even with Kazmir.  It wasn’t the starting pitching that did them in during that series. You just can’t say that Kazmir would have made such a drastic difference, [...]

Yesterday, while leaving Shea Stadium, I saw a guy wearing a Scott Kazmir Mets jersey.
I stopped him and asked if he spent money on it prior to the trade, or after.  Naturally, he ordered it online after the trade.
What’s interesting, though, is it was sent to him with a space between the Z and M in [...]

“Even though he is entering his first year of arbitration eligibility, there’s already talk that Scott Kazmir’s days as a Ray are numbered,” writes the St. Petersburg Times.
According to the report, the Rays approached Kazmir about a long-term extension last year, ‘but nothing developed.’
In early November, in the New York Post, citing ‘an executive familiar [...]