Royals don’t land Santana …

Links (5)

Joe Posnanski Blog: Royals don’t land Santana …
Published 1/30/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Joe Posnanski Blog: Royals don’t land Santana … The deal is contingent on Santana cutting a long-term deal with the Mets — they have a 48-72 hour window to do that. Obviously that will happen, even if Santana asks for a billion jillion shmillion dollars. What, the Mets are going to hold a press conference to announce that they have to send Santana BACK TO THE TWINS? I don’t think so. That press conference would be followed by an announcement that the Mets will be playing next year’s games at the bottom of the East River. The first person who texted me — the one who actually ...

Santana Aftermath
Published 1/30/2008 by Tim Dierkes at MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com
... Jon Lester or Jacoby Ellsbury.  To me this makes the Yankees and Red Sox look really fickle.  They were willing to offer up these huge packages a few months ago but now both have done a 180? I know the free agent market has shrunk but it's still crazy that their stances changed so dramatically. Newsday says the Mets added Deolis Guerra as the final offer yesterday.  Joe Posnanski has heard many varying opinions on the deal. ...

Is This Supposed To Be Tongue-In-Cheek? Or Does He Actually Believe What He's Writing?
Published 1/31/2008 by larry b at Fire Jay Mariotti
... So yeah, that's a decent package. Obviously substantially better than what the Twins ended up getting? No. You can't fault Minnesota for wanting to hold out for something better, given the Yankees' recent propensity to renege on promises they publicly make. There was no way they would pursue Randy Johnson. There was no way they'd let Buffet-Rod come back if he opted out. What were the odds they wouldn't sweeten this deal? ...

Damaged Goods/Viva Johan!!!
Published 1/31/2008 by mr. met at the metropolitans
... Actually, I lied above. Joe Posnanski had probably the best piece of all on the trade. It really gives you some valuable insight and basically, no one is right or wrong. There are valid reasons to be on either side of the fence or straddling it. ...

Bunt Singles: Groundhog Day
Published 2/2/2008 by Kurt at Mack Avenue Tigers
... Santana was traded to the Mets this week, signed a six year, 137.5M deal with them last night and is now gone from the American League. While that could potentially come back to haunt the A.L. in the World Series, until then, the I think teams around the league breathed a sigh of relief. The Twins got some prospects and mixed reaction from around the league. ...