12-06-2007, 09:30 PM
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No last-second moves this season
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Most of the people attending Major League Baseball's annual Winter Meetings view the Rule 5 Draft as the symbolic closing event of this four-day get-together. But over the past few years, in various locales, the unofficial finish usually has come from a last-day, often blockbuster, move pulled off by general manager Ken Williams.
In 2004, Williams traded Carlos Lee to Milwaukee in exchange for outfielder Scott Podsednik and reliever Luis Vizcaino. Brewers' general manager Doug Melvin was left to speak to a mere handful of remaining reporters in Anaheim concerning the 11th-hour deal.
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