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The Padres, sources say, continue shopping third baseman Kevin Kouzmanoff, who missed a handful o...

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The Padres, sources say, continue shopping third baseman Kevin Kouzmanoff, who missed a handful of games with a bad back last week, and one rumor making the rounds is of a Kouzmanoff-for-Jason Bay deal with Pittsburgh. Bay, a former Padres farmhand and subject of San Diego rumors off-and-on for the past year, is signed through 2009 and is due $7.5 million next season. One long-time scout scoffs, though. "Pittsburgh will never even be .500 if they do that," the scout says. "That is not a fair trade. They're too smart for that. They won't do it unless it's a money thing."

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