Shopping Godzilla?
From a Star Ledger report:
Contending teams generally don’t want to send back major-league talent for high-priced veterans, but there’s a chance the Yankees could try to convince Matsui, for example, to accept a deal to a West Coast team like the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, which has some pitching to deal and could use Matsui in a pennant race. But the Yankees could end up competing with the Angels for the wild card, and it’s unlikely they’d want to do something that could help a competitor.
Another possibility is San Diego. The Padres can’t take on any payroll, but if they dealt a player like Phil Nevin (who’s making $8.5 million this year and next) for a player like Matsui (who’s making $8 million this year and can be a free agent when it’s over), it could help them free up some cash for other things.
Trading Matsui would be a big mistake. They need more players like Matsui – and should be looking at how to get those, instead of shopping the ones that they have………are they that clueless to what’s going on with this team?
There have been so many trade rumors going around that, in order to keep my sanity, I refuse to even entertain that any of them could be true.
This “news story” was leaked as a part of the negotiation process with Arn Tellem.
When Matsui says that The Yankee Clipper was his hero growing up and that he wants to be a Yankee for 3 more years, I would guess– More than any other player in the American Laeague– that he means it. Both Matsui’s culture and the kind of guy he is makes me place a lot of faith in his word.
I predict he’ll go back to the Giants if he doesn’t come to an agreement here.
I forgot about how much Stein loved Arn.
Are they that clueless?
Womack & Wright… You tell me
I heard a rumor that had Sheff going to the Cubs for DuBois, Patterson and Mitre.
I don’t think the Cubs are that stupid. Not to bad-talk Sheff, but that’s a lot of talented youth to give up for an aging slugger, especially for a team that has Derek Lee, Aramis Ramirez and Jeromy Burnitz providing power and some major injury issues in their rotation.
Well they are essientially paying 16 million for one year of Jeromy Burnitz.