FLASH...Batista Signs With Arizona

Season 1 NL Cy Young winner and 4-time All-Star Julio Batista has signed with Arizona, getting $16.6 million over 2 years (the contract has a mutual option for Season 11). Batista has been a stalwart SP for Montgomery teams since the league's inception, getting double-digit wins every year and posting a career 3.42 ERA. His ratings have held up remarkably well over the years (excepting major injuries early in his career), even posting gains up to age 32. The only question here is how fast or slow those ratings will start to slip (Arizona's training budget is a slightly-below-average 14; Montgomery's has never wavered from 20).