BOSTON -- Red Sox slugger Manny Ramirez is leaving Boston in a three-team, eleventh-hour trade deal, SportsCenter 5 confirmed Thursday.

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Ramirez is going to the Los Angeles Dodgers, and Pirates outfielder Jason Bay, 29, is headed to Boston, SportsCenter 5's Mike Lynch reported. To round out the deal, the Pittsburgh Pirates will get Boston's Craig Hanson and Brandon Moss and the Dodgers' Andy LaRoche and Bryan Morris.

The Red Sox will pay the $7 million remaining on Ramirez's contract for 2008, and he will become a free agent when the post-season ends.

The deal did not start to materialize until 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Lynch said. The trade is contingent on working out the details of a contract, and a deadline extension was granted by Major League Baseball.

A team insider told Lynch that 24 Red Sox players favored getting rid of Ramirez, while only one player wanted to keep him on the roster.

Ramirez played for the Red Sox for seven seasons and has averaged an RBI in every 4.4 at bats in his career. He ranks among the top 50 all-time in grand-slam homers, homeruns and extra base hits, according to the Red Sox Web site.

He has batted .300 in five of his seven seasons in Boston and at least .292 in every year with the Red Sox.

In 2007, Ramirez had 20 homeruns with 88 RBIs, the lowest in a season since 1994. He missed 24 games when he left a game in August with a strained left oblique muscle.

He hit the American League's longest home run of 481 feet on July 26, 2007, in Cleveland. Ramirez also had the best fielding percentage of any American League left fielder last season, a .990, and led the team's outfielders with eight assists in his 120 games.

Ramirez was selected as a reserve player for the 2007 American League All-Star team after being elected as a starter for the previous eight seasons.

As the Ramirez trade deadline neared, Boston fans said they were mixed on trading the 36-year-old slugger. Little League players from Roslindale and West Roxbury said that they didn't want Ramirez to leave, but the coach said it was time for him to go.

"Don't let go of Manny. He is our team completely," said Little Leaguer Dan Flahive.

Little League coach Jim Galvin said Ramirez's growing list of on- and off-field incidents, including fights with teammates and inflammatory remarks about Red Sox management, set a bad example for his young players.

"When you are trying to tell kids to be a certain way, and act a certain way and play a certain way, and he does things the way he wants, you just don't want to deal with it," Galvin said.