Scratch Dontrelle Willis off the list of possible additions, traded to the Diamondbacks yesterday for starter Billy Buckner and a sack of cash. Oh, wait, traded *with* a sack of cash for Buckner.
Buckner, incidentally, has a career record of 6-11 with an ERA over 6 while making a hair over the league minimum, which is actually better than Willis has performed for Detroit at nearly $10 million per over the past three years.
Remember back in the old days when the team getting the bigger name would be the one giving up the cash? Not that I go back quite that far, but when the Cubs got Rogers Hornsby after the 1928 season, they sent five players plus a then-record $200,000 to the Boston Braves for him. These days he'd have been a salary-dump trade, and that money would have been sent the other way to cover a contract a team like the old Braves never would/could have afforded in the first place.
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