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Focused on Ibanez
Mets Fever — ... The price for Raul Ibanez may be too high for the Mets as Stark reiterates what we heard previously, that Fernando Martinez and Jon Niese are not available...Ken Rosenthal added Robert Parnell to that list of untouchables. source ...

Catfish Stew: Yankee Stadium, Trade Rumors
Baseball Toaster — ... make sense, but I don't get the Jason Bay ones, unless Beane thinks he can flip Bay for more than he'd give up. I'm not really expecting Beane to make any more moves. There are a lot of relievers available for trades, and the Jon Rauch-for-Emilio Bonifacio trade between the Nats and the DBacks probably set the market price for veteran relievers lower than Beane would like. The A's could have had Bonifacio in the Dan Haren trade, but chose Chris Carter instead. The A's aren't going to trade Street for some team's 7th-best prospect, and who's going to give up much more than ...