More Signings and Trades from the Winter Meetings

• In what could be another odd move, the Red Sox are on the verge of shipping third baseman Mike Lowell to the Rangers in exchange for catcher Max Ramirez. Lowell is owed roughly $12MM in 2010, the final year of his current deal. The teams are still haggling over money as the Rangers can't afford his salary. The Red Sox are going to have to send a boatload of cash in this deal to the Rangers to offset Lowell's salary. The deal could still fall apart because of Lowell's hip and thumb problems. Stay tuned.
• The Braves are set to send reliever Rafael Soriano, who accepted arbitration as a free agent on Monday but agreed to allow the Braves to trade him before June, to the Rays in exchange for Jesse Chavez, a reliever whom the Rays got from the Pirates for Akinori Iwamura last month.
• Former A's and Cubs hurler Rich Harden has reportedly agreed to a $6.5MM deal with the Rangers. The deal includes performance incentives up to $3.5MM for 2010, and includes a mutual $11MM option for 2011, or a $1MM buyout. I hadn't mentioned this one yet until because the deal isn't official, but it's pretty much done pending a phyiscal. I'm pretty surprised the Dodgers didn't jump on him at this rate.
• The Brewers have inked free agent reliever LaTroy Hawkins, formerly with Houston, to a two-year, $7.5MM deal. Seriously?
• Bobby Crosby has signed a one-year deal with the Pirates. Fun!
• Peter Gammons reports the Astros have acquired reliever Matt Lindstrom from the Marlins.
• In a surprise move, the Rangers have traded starting pitcher Kevin Millwood to the Orioles in exchange for reliever Chris Ray. Here's the official release. A head-scratcher for the O's in my opinion. This was obviously a precursor to the Rangers signing Rich Harden later in the day.