"No news is good news." No. It's frickin boring.

No Sox news, so some thoughts on moves being made elsewhere:

• Former Rays' prospect, now a former Reds' CF. Josh Hamilton traded to the Rangers for Edison Volquez.

  Good potential for win-win here. Jamey Newberg's analysis is excellent as always. A good example of teams matching up strengths and weaknesses in a trade.

• Phillies sign Geoff Jenkins to a two-year deal for $13M.

  Jenkins is 33 years old, plays good corner D, and has an .883 OPS lifetime vs. RHPs. This would be a pretty good move for the Phillies, cost, risk, and all, except for the fact that Geoff Jenkins is neither a starting nor relief pitcher.

• Rockies sign Luis Vizcaino to a two-year deal for $7.5M.

  Excellent quote from Dan O'Dowd here: "Luis provides valuable experience and durability to the back end of our bullpen,". If there's any manager who can prove RP durability, it's Joe Torre. Phillies and Tigers both miss out on another pitcher who could've been the second or third-best in their pen. Nice job, everyone. This is actually a kind of okay deal, all said and done.

• Tigers extend Dontrelle Firestarter Willis for three years @ $29M.

  Good or bad in terms of years and $, this was a rush job for no apparent reason. Mike Illitch isn't opposed to spending on players who are worth it, so Dave Dombrowski could certainly have waited until they knew that particular bit of information.

• I don't know. What do you all want to talk about? J.D. Drew did, in fact, get postseason moment of the year.
• Jon Weisman of Dodger Thoughts has ranked the AL rotations.

  We're behind only the Angels. (He also ranked the NL rotations, all with the help of his Dodger Thoughts community.) Don't like his semi-arbitrary system? Can it. FJM already did it better.