Free-agent outfielder Trot Nixon has agreed to a one-year, $3 million deal with the Cleveland Indians, ESPN.com's Peter Gammons reports.

One year, $3 million for a ten-year veteran? It just doesn't get any lower than that. Seriously, this is like the top salesman at Dunder-Mifflin working the floor at Staples.

Here are Nixon's final averages with the Sox, not counting his first two seasons, when he only had a cup of coffee:

• Per season: G: 120, Avg: .278, HR: 17, RBI: 65, SLG: .478
• Per 162 Games: HR: 22, RBI: 86, BB: 75, K: 102

It's hard now to remember the time when more than half the fans in Boston considered Trot the tough, clutch, star-in-the-making that we wouldn't trade for anybody. Early on he did have his clutch hits, and was a certifiable Clemens killer. But the fact is that between being injured and having to be protected against lefties, Nixon was only good for about 70 games a year for the last half of his time in Boston. And I'll argue that for every boneheaded miscue that Manny made, baserunning blunders or forgetting how many outs there are or whatever, Trot made one as well. All the eye black and dirty hats in the world couldn't make up for that.

I call that we all have to do a shot today every time Peter Gammons says that Trot is one of the truly great people in the game.