PHOENIX -- Drew Pomeranz had been traded before -- twice, in fact. He knew the signs.
When the big left-hander returned from a December trip to Texas for a checkup on his surgically repaired shoulder, the missed calls from his agent and from members of the A's front office were a dead giveaway.
Pomeranz was headed to San Diego -- in exchange for Yonder Alonso and Marc Rzepczynski. For Pomeranz, it was a chance to revitalize his career, one which had stalled in Colorado before some brief and inconsistent success in Oakland.