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In case you’ve been living under a rock lately, let me just go ahead and inform you that the Bedard to Seattle deal has finally gone through. Here’s a look at it:

Seattle sent Adam Jones, George Sherrill, Chris Tillman, Kam Mickolio and Tony Butler to Baltimore for Erik Bedard. Now, I’m not going to talk winners and losers from a team standpoint, many folks have already done that. But I do want to hit a few of the fantasy highlights for the players in this deal.

• Erik Bedard moved to a more pitcher friendly park and now, if he wasn’t already located near the top on most draft lists, is a top 5 starting pitcher option in mixed leagues and a top 3 in AL only leagues. Bedard’s current Average Draft Position is 39.05, which seems a bit high to take him in the early 3rd round in mixed leagues. His AL only ADP is 19.58, which is crazy considering Josh Beckett has an ADP of 23.05 (anyone who’s taking Bedard before Beckett, please come join a league in which I participate).
• Adam Jones should be the starting center fielder in Baltimore, and we’re finally going to get to see what he can do with 500+ at-bats. Camden Yard should help him pack on a few more power numbers as I’ve seen many people project 20+ home runs from Jones now.
• George Sherrill may be the Orioles new closer. I’m not sure how great his job security will be as the O’s closer job has about as good of a chance of changing hands as any closer’s job in the league. Don’t spend too much on Sherrill or grab him too early. You can take a flier, but not before you consider about 85% of the other closers in baseball.

Tim runs a couple of fantastic baseball blogs that I enjoy very much. I’ve officially crowned him with Superman status for his efforts yesterday on his blog MLB Trade Rumors.

I’ve written something in the neighborhood of 11,000 words today. That’s not a typo. Insane, isn’t it? In my opinion the Winter Meetings have been awesome so far; a constant flow of hot stove to discuss. Yesterday MLBTR had 490,000 pageviews, our second best day ever (can’t top this year’s trade deadline). Thanks for reading. We’re not even halfway done with the Meetings. I should note that I’ve written so much today that it all doesn’t fit on the page (I think the front page has 25 posts or so).

If you aren’t following along at MLBTR regarding the Winter Meetings, you are crazy!