Jayson Werth Signs With Nationals, Shakes Up Free Agent Market

By Eric Stephen@ericstephen Dec 5, 2010, 2:05pm PST

Jayson Werth is now a Washington National (<em>Photo: Streeter Lecka | Getty Images</em>) — Jayson Werth is now a Washington National (Photo: Streeter Lecka | Getty Images)

If everyone good eventually ended up on the Yankees or Red Sox, things would be boring. So, kudos to the Washington Nationals to shocking the hell out of the baseball world by signing Jayson Werth to a seven-year, $126 million deal.

Carl Crawford is smiling like a Cheshire cat right now.

The winter meetings begin in earnest on Monday.