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Padres To Explore Peavy Deals With Cubs, Dodgers
MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com —
According to Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports, the Padres intend to explore a possible Jake Peavy trade with the Cubs and Dodgers at next week's GM meetings. Apparently Padres GM Kevin Towers would like to exhaust his possibilities with Peavy's five preferred NL clubs before engaging others.
Rosenthal notes that the Cubs do not have the quality young pitching the ...
Friday Headlines/Open Thread
A League of Her Own —
... the first day to do so. Relievers Bob Howry and Chad Fox also filed.
Dempster, who had a career year after converting from closer to starter, has said he would like to remain with the Cubs.
He went 17-6 with a 2.96 ERA in 33 starts, striking out 187 in the final year of a three-year, $15.5 million contract.
Players may sign only with their former club through Nov. 13. If no deal is reached by then, they are then free to fully negotiate with other teams.
Ken Rosenthal on Peavy
From FoxSports.com:
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Kicking off the hot stove
GoatRiders of the Apocalypse —
Okay, folks, here’s everything I know that’s worth knowing as we move into the official start of the offseason.
Ken Rosenthal says the Padres are going to explore trading Peavy to the Cubs:
After failing to strike a deal with the Braves — at least for the moment — the Padres intend to explore deals with two other clubs on Peavy's preferred list, the Cubs and Dodgers.
Peavy has the right to veto any trade. The Astros, another National League team he likes, have too little to offer the Padres. The Cardinals, the final team on his list, are not expected to make a bid.
The Peavy discussions will resume next week at the general managers' meetings in Dana ...
Cubs Rumor Mill: Jake Peavy
wrigleyville23 —
Ken Rosenthal says the Padres will look into trading Peavy to the Cubs: After failing to strike a deal with the Braves — at least for the moment — the Padres intend to explore deals with two other clubs on Peavy's preferred list, the Cubs and Dodgers. Peavy has the right to veto any trade. The Astros, another National League team he likes, have too little to offer the Padres. The Cardinals, the final team on his list, are not expected to make a bid. The Peavy discussions will resume next week at the general managers' meetings in Dana Point, Ca. The Cubs have long had interest in Peavy, but do not have quality young pitching to send the Padres. However, their ...
Macha's Defiant Return!
wrigleyville23 —
I always wondered why Ken Macha was fired in Oakland (after two first and two second place finishes). Turns out he was (is?) an asshole: After the A's fired Macha in Oct. 2006, a number of respected A's veterans — including Barry Zito, Dan Haren, Jason Kendall and Mark Kotsay — were strongly critical of him in comments to Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle. "The atmosphere wasn't positive, for some reason," Eric Chavez said. "That was hard for us to deal with — here we are, winning the division, we're banged up but we're still doing what we should be doing, and every time he spoke to us, he'd say how much he appreciated the effort, but then you'd read things ...
Sunday notes: Rosenthal is the wrong champion
Bugs & Cranks —
On the heels of the miserable weather experienced during the World Series — and with the 2009 Series not set to end until the first week of November thanks to the World Baseball Classic — it is pretty obvious baseball needs to do something about the length of its season.
I find it ridiculous, though, that Ken Rosenthal has begun championing the cause of fixing baseball’s calendar.
Rosenthal, of course, is a writer and reporter for FOX, the network that currently has broadcast rights to the World Series. Television, of course, and baseball’s willingness to enslave itself to FOX’s every desire in search of squeezing every last ...
MLB Weekly
Hip 2 Da Game —
New York Yankees: It is sure to be an interesting offseason for the Yankees and there have already been some rumors that the Yankees are more likely to sign Manny Ramirez than Mark Teixeira. This is definitely a surprise in some ways, because Mark Teixeira is younger than Manny and better in the field. However, it would be a bigger commitment to sign Teixeira because you'd have to give him more years and money than Manny. The Yankees may only want to give out one long term contract this offseason and may prefer to give that long term contract to C.C. Sabathia. There would be a lot of pluses to adding Manny for the Yankees and the biggest one would probably ...
Riffs: This Neutral-Site Notion (A Poll)
Bird Land —
SOUTH GRAND — The only thing worse than Major League Baseball moving toward the World Series becoming some sort of neutral-site circus would be to dismiss the idea entirely and ignore all of the suggestion its inspired.
Coming out of the rain-delayed 2008 World Series and staring at a 2009 postseason that likely won’t end until the first week of November, the drumbeat for change echoed around baseball coverage. “Neutral Site” was the new black. ESPN’s Buster Olney surrendered in a way, waving a white flag of nostalgia and agreeing it was time for the World Series to follow the Super Bowl. Over at Fox, Ken Rosenthal ...
