Jays Acquire Jackson; Rasmus Involved?  —  10:44am: Money appears to be the only holdup in a trade that would send Jackson to the Cardinals and Rasmus to the Blue Jays, tweets Rosenthal.  An exchange of more than $1MM awaits approval, and of course the Cards will get more than just Jackson for Rasmus.

White Sox deal Jackson, Teahen to Blue Jays  —  CHICAGO — The Chicago White Sox traded pitcher Edwin Jackson and utilityman Mark Teahen to the Toronto Blue Jays.  —  The White Sox will receive reliever Jason Frasor and pitching prospect Zach Stewart.  —  A source told ESPN.com's Jerry Crasnick …

Eight-Player Deal Sending Rasmus To Jays For Jackson Imminent  —  12:08pm: The Cardinals will send Rasmus, Trever Miller, Brian Tallet, and P.J. Walters to the Blue Jays for Jackson, Rzepczynski, Dotel, and Corey Patterson, tweets ESPN's Buster Olney.  Olney adds that Miller is then expected to be traded to the White Sox.

Trade season is finally heating up  —  Earlier today, the Blue Jays agreed to send reliever Jason Frasor and starting pitcher Zach Stewart to the White Sox for Edwin Jackson and Mark Teahen.  —  Later, the Blue Jays flipped Jackson along with Marc Rzepczynskii, Octavio Dotel and Corey Patterson …

Giants To Acquire Carlos Beltran  —  3:11pm: The Giants and Mets have reached a tentative agreement on a Beltran trade, report Rosenthal and Morosi.  —  2:27pm: The Mets will pay $4MM of the $6MM remaining on Beltran's contract, an executive not directly involved with the trade tells Sherman.

Mets Are Close to Sending Beltran to Giants  —  The Mets and the San Francisco Giants are on the verge of completing a trade that will send Carlos Beltran to the Giants in exchange for a top prospect who is likely to be Zach Wheeler, a right-handed pitcher taken in the first round of the 2009 draft.

Jerry Meals Might Have Been Right  —  Yes, the throw beat Julio Lugo and it sure looked like Michael McKenry tagged Lugo.  But isn't it possible that umpire Jerry Meals saw something the rest of us didn't?  —  Call me a sensationalist or an iconoclast if you like, but I just gotta say something this morning ...

Umpire Meals: Call ‘might have’ been wrong  —  Pirates, Braves weigh in on controversial ruling in 19th inning  —  ATLANTA — Veteran umpire Jerry Meals felt he was right with the call he made that ended the 4-3, 19-inning win the Braves claimed over the Pirates at Turner Field on Tuesday night.