Brewers get Carlos Lee

For Luis Vizcaino and Scott Podsednik. Lee will get $8M next year and has an $8.5M option for the year after that.

Scott Podsednik's 2003 season was, I thought, the best-case scenario for Tike Redman's 2004 season. I still think Tike Redman could have a season like that. But I'm doubtful. If it was going to happen, it would have happened last year, when the stars aligned for him and he had his bite at the apple.

The Bucs will have a lot of options for fourth outfielder. I don't think that Tike Redman's career as a Pirate as over, but I don't guess he's a lock to make the 2005 opening-day roster. Far from it.

P.S. The Brewers also picked up Nashville.