Alexei Ramirez

As the MLB free-agent market continues to play out, shortstop Alexei Ramirez finds himself starting to generate interest from clubs.   

Per Ken Rosenthal of FoxSports.com, citing Bruce Levine of 670 The Score in Chicago, the San Diego Padres are "still talking" with Ramirez about a possible deal. 

Continue for updates. 

Sifting through the 2015-2016 MLB free-agent market, there's just no one quite like Bartolo Colon.

Simply put, the right-hander is an ageless wonder.

Even with his 43rd birthday looming in May, Colon is still a viable free-agent option for a club that is aiming to round out its rotation. And, Colon isn't the only big league vet who proved in 2015 that his tank isn't empty just yet.

Shortstop Alexei Ramirez has spent his entire career with the Chicago White Sox, but that may soon change, as the team declined to pick up his contract option Wednesday.

According to the team's official Twitter account, it instead opted to exercise a $1 million buyout, thus making the Cuban veteran a free agent.

The second the Los Angeles Dodgers hired Andrew Friedman as their president of baseball operations and jettisoned former general manager Ned Colletti into a role untied to player personnel, the team was without a shortstop for 2015. 

The Los Angeles Dodgers' new-look front office led by president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman and general manager Farhan Zaidi will have some important decisions to make this offseason.

Chicago White Sox All-Star shortstop Alexei Ramirez is reportedly at the center of trade inquiries from at least a few prominent MLB clubs.    

This revelation comes from CBSChicago.com's Bruce Levine, who offered more details on the high demand regarding the 33-year-old veteran:

In reality, it only takes one team to overvalue, and, thus, overpay for a player on the trade market. But there's always a group of players that's viewed as having a certain value based on certain numbers, reputation and trade-market depth.  

For those reasons, certain players will be overrated, and some team will be taking a risk by acquiring them, even at fair market value.  

Unless the price somehow goes way down in the next 12 days, here are five overrated players whom your team should avoid acquiring before the trade deadline.

Amidst blown saves and dropped balls, games have been up and down in Chicago to start the season. A team Chicago fans thought was “All in” this year, is turning out to be a team still trying to find themselves at the plate and in the field.

As the White Sox attempt to find their game, one fact should stand to take notice: With everything happening on the South Side, we know we have three Gold Glovers playing this year.

It was an eye-opening 2010 campaign for Alexei Ramirez.

Ramirez's .282 average, 18 home runs, 29 doubles and 70 RBI earned him his first Silver Slugger Award, and let's not get started on the fact he should have won a Gold Glove at shortstop.

Our 2011 fantasy baseball projections will be released one-by-one until the top 100 players have been revealed. These rankings consider past achievements, current performance and expected future results based on standard 5×5 H2H settings.