Halladay would approve a trade to the Yankees
November 28, 2009, 6:00 am by iYankees · 6 Comments
Steve over at TYU points out this noteworthy item.
From Bob Elliot (Slam! Sports):
Will Roy Halladay leave Toronto via the same route as ex-Blue Jays aces David Cone and Roger Clemens?
Headed for the Bronx and the New York Yankees?
It has always been a possibility. Now that chance has been upgraded.
“I don’t know who Toronto will wind up with,” a major league executive said Friday. “I don’t know when he is going and I don’t know where he’s going.
“But I do know that Halladay has told the Jays he’ll approve a trade to the Yankees.”
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Halladay and agent Greg Landry have kept possible landing spots hush-hush.
A Minnesota Twins official confirmed in July that Halladay would not approve a deal to the Twin-Cities and Texas Rangers president Nolan Ryan said in September he was told Halladay would block a deal to Arlington, Tex.
Halladay has never said yeah or nay to the Yanks and still hasn’t, but this third party news clears the decks for Halladay to follow the path of Cone and Clemens.
Now, this isn’t necessarily “new” news, as Halladay was reportedly against a move to Texas in July and, according to a variety of sources, he has always been open to joining the Yankees (or other winners, essentially). Either way, this is still a verbal confirmation from a “major league executive” that Halladay would okay a trade to New York, so it’s certainly deserving of a post. Enjoy, but remember, the real issue is whether or not Halladay will require an extension in order to waive his no-trade clause.
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Why do we have to give up Montero & Hughes/Joba for Halladay when Lackey would only cost a draft pick? If the Yanks are considering adding $$$ to the payroll with Halladay, why not just sign Lackey?
IMO nobody is going to give up tons of talent for a 33 year old, not to mention tons of money… I think the Jays are asking for WAY too much. And I really don’t believe the Yanks are going to give up that much… and neither are the Sox.
The Jays have to face the fact that there aren’t many teams who can pay Halladay. So they’re going rape the team of talent that has to PAY Halladay the money that they couldn’t or won’t… yeah, right.
Hot debate. What do you think?
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Why sign Lackey when the last thing we need is a 31+ year old pitcher making 16+ million per year, let’s all just stop the “we need an ace” thing and just focus on what we actually NEED and that is a middle of the rotation starter. We don’t actually need to go get Halladay or Johnson or King Felix or anyone like that, we could sign Sheets or trade for a lesser starter in that neighborhood and solve this problem rather than trading high prospects or signing someone to a 80+ million dollar contract!
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He was saying, if the Yankees absolutely intend on trading for Halladay, then they should just add Lackey instead.
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Exactly…
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I can agree with that! I say let’s just focus on getting Sheets, I heard one of his top choices was the Red Sox so if they are using all their energy trying to get Doc maybe we can sweep in and get the only low risk high reward pitcher worthy of the contract this offseason.
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