Will Ohman finally has a team.  On Monday, the Los Angeles Dodgers signed the lefty reliever to a one year deal.  Here is the kicker, it’s a minor league deal with an April 14th deadline for Ohman to be in the Majors or he can opt out and sign with another club.   There really are no fantasy implications here as Ohman is not going to close games for the Dodgers.

Jason Stark of ESPN says that Will Ohman is searching for a deal worth about $2.75mil, with $1mil of that being incentives that are very much attainable.  Ohman is pretty much the last good lefty on the reliever market, and it seems like the Giants and Padres are the current leaders.  Stark says he prefers the left coast, for what it is worth, and that while the Phillies and Marlins are still in on Ohman, they are not willing to be in at the current asking price.

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Dave O’Brien, more commonly know to Braves’ fans as DOB, now says that the Braves have both offered Tom Glavine a contract and are no longer pursueing Will Ohman.  Both of these announcements come as no real surprise, even if we don’t agree with them.

The Ohman thing is interesting, if only from the aspect of dude thinking he is worth way more than he really is.  Seriously, Ohman may have had a decent WHIP at 1.24 and ERA at 3.68 in 2008, but he did not exactly set the world on fire.  He isn’t even Ryan Madson, who posted better numbers across the board while pitching in a hitter’s park.

It also looks like the Braves will not be bringing back Andruw Jones, who wants a Major League deal with promised playing time.  He can’t even get that from the Rangers, though, so who knows if he will swallow his pride and come back to the Braves on a Minor League deal with an invite to Spring Training.  If he wants to do that, though, he better move quickly because the Braves have been pursuing a deal with the Yankees to bring in Nick Swisher.

The Braves are also considering Bobby Abreu and Adam Dunn, but how likely either of these two options are is unknown.  My gut tells me Abreu is more likely, but I would rather see Swisher out in left field than Abreu.  In order for either Abreu or Dunn to get added they will have to accept deals at or less than $9mil for 2009.

Update

Apparently Andruw Jones has swallowed his pride and taken the minor league offer from the Rangers.  This is a strange move in my eyes, because he would have had a better shot in Atlanta than in Texas, looking at current outfield situations.