Blue Jays Entertaining Offers for Doc...

[DeadsetAce]

Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Blue Jays will listen to Halladay offers

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By Buster Olney
ESPN The Magazine

Toronto Blue Jays General Manager J.P. Ricciardi has spoken with Roy Halladay and prepared him for the possibility that he will bring trade possibilities to the pitcher in the weeks or months ahead. Halladay, 32, has a no-trade clause that will allow him to dictate whether he will be dealt before he becomes eligible for free agency next fall. "He's open to at least listening," said Ricciardi. "He's not going to be a guy who will let you do all the work [preparing for a possible trade], and then he's not willing to listen. If it makes sense, he will listen." The Jays' situation with Halladay is much like that which faced the Minnesota Twins during the 2007 season with ace Johan Santana: The left-hander was set to become eligible for free agency in 2008, and after Santana turned down an offer from Minnesota, the Twins dealt him to the Mets. Halladay is eligible for free agency after the 2010 season, and so the Jays essentially will have three windows of opportunity in which they could consider dealing the former Cy Young Award winner in the 24 days before the July 31 trade deadline; during the off-season; or next season. And the Jays have begun the process of casting a line in the water to see what they could get in return for the right-hander, whose work ethic is as highly regarded as his ability. "We're not inclined to move him, but we're going to see what's out there," said Ricciardi. If Halladay walks away as a free agent after the 2010 season, the Jays would get the equivalent of two high draft picks as compensation, so that level of value would be a starting point for any interested team. Halladay would fit any team, of course. Right now, the team most aggressively searching for a frontline starting pitcher is the Philadelphia Phillies, who no doubt would covet Halladay for their particular park for his ability to generate ground balls and missed swings -- he has a ground ball/foul ball ratio of 1.30, to go along 98 strikeouts in 116 innings this season. The question about the Phillies -- as it is with most teams these days, when the value of young players has never been higher -- is whether they would be willing to give up what the Jays would require in trade. The Boston Red Sox could afford Halladay and know first-hand that he is capable of pitching effectively in the AL East -- something they and the New York Yankees doubted about Jake Peavy -- but Boston has stubbornly clung to its young pitching, and might be reluctant to trade a package of prospects for Halladay. The Yankees have been devoted to the rebuilding of their farm system, and would have to swap some of the young stars they have developed to get Halladay. Both Boston and the Yankees dabbled in the Santana trade talks, but neither front office was fully invested in the pursuit of the left-hander, who was three years younger than Halladay is now. The New York Mets may or may not have the caliber of prospects that the Jays would require to make the deal; the same could be said for the Chicago Cubs. The Jays would want one of the Dodgers' best young starters for Halladay either Clayton Kershaw or Chad Billingsley and that figures to be a deal-breaker for L.A. Halladay, who is 10-2 with a 2.79 ERA for the Jays this year, is earning $14.25 million this year, and will make $15.75 million next season.

 

[cedric ceballos 1995 lakers]

Do it Omar

 

[durden7]

Happ, Carrasco, Donald, Mayberry Jr. for Halladay.


Anyone BUT Marson.

 

[Coupé It]

Trade Kennedy and Austin Jackson for him, with Wang injured and Joba being Joba we need another strong pitcher

 

[DeadsetAce]

Originally Posted by CoupeIt88

Trade Kennedy Hughes and Austin Jackson for him, with Wang injured and Joba being Joba we need another strong pitcher

that'd probably work

 

[DownByLaw]

Intersting, I wonder if he will want to stay in the AL.

 

[lb510]

@ the tags

 

[proshares]

Originally Posted by CoupeIt88

Trade Kennedy and Austin Jackson for him, with Wang injured and Joba being Joba we need another strong pitcher

Kennedy is out for the year with a blood clot in his armpit or something like that.

And of course Deadset gotta put those !#+!+@# tags

 

[CP1708]

The Cubs offer Wrigley field, the worthless White Sox organization, however many #1's you want, Milton Bradley, an autographed Sammy Sosa jersey, andtickets to the Bulls for Roy.

Do it Hendry.

 

[osh kosh bosh]

Originally Posted by DeadsetAce

Originally Posted by CoupeIt88

Trade Kennedy Hughes and Austin Jackson for him, with Wang injured and Joba being Joba we need another strong pitcher

that'd probably work

No it wont.

Let me tell y'all right now, if Roy is going to go it will be a for a kings ransom and nothing less, there is no pressure to trade him, and Blue Jaymanagement probably won't OK anything unless they get that kings ransom, they have too much to lose by letting him go for anything less than that, theperception of the team is more important to them than anything else.

Unless that happens Roy will be in a Blue Jay uniform again.

 

[johnnyredstorm]

Fernando Martinez
Jonathan Niese
Eddie Kunz
Daniel Murphy

for Roy Halladay


Forget scoring runs, let's just win a bunch of 1-0 games.

 

[airmaxpenny1]

Reyes + Fernando for Halladay + Rios

Fair Deal

 

[proshares]

Fernando Martinez
Jonathan Niese
Eddie Kunz
Daniel Murphy

for Roy Halladay

does that sound like a king's ransom to you?

 

[DYNAMICS]

Good get him out of here, a great player wasting Cy Young numbers year after year on a joke of a franchise he deserves better.

 

[osh kosh bosh]

Originally Posted by JohnnyRedStorm

Fernando Martinez
Jonathan Niese
Eddie Kunz
Daniel Murphy

for Roy Halladay


Forget scoring runs, let's just win a bunch of 1-0 games.

Try again, I've givn JP a lot of flack but I don't believe him to be an idiot, he's a blow hard and incredibly arrogant but moron? No.

 

[Sam Darnold Heisman #8]

juan pierre, guillermo mota, and mattinglys son for halladay.

do it ned!

 

[brrraptors]

nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

i'd absolutely hate the day to see docwalk away. hes been my fave jay for a longtime, not enough can be said about his character and skills.

on the same note, i also want him to go on and win the chip. we all know its not happening with the jays anytime soon. hopefully he goes to a real contendernot named yankees. if j.p lets him go for a one sided deal ill be livid.

 

[phil le0tard0]

Originally Posted by JohnnyRedStorm

Fernando Martinez
Jonathan Niese
Eddie Kunz
Daniel Murphy

for Roy Halladay


Forget scoring runs, let's just win a bunch of 1-0 games.

Sounds good

 

[651akathepaul]

Might as well and go ahead and do it. Get some young arms to build on the farm. Oakland and Toronto are two of the best teams I've ever seen who breed studpitchers one after another. They get rid of, or lose, all their big name pitchers, then all of a sudden a few short years later they have reloaded on anothercrop of up and coming pitchers.

 

[p mac one]

So they're saying that they not going to give him a new contract. He'll get something like 5 years, 120 million.

If they trade him now, they'll get more for him. The longer they wait the better off they would be with the draft picks.

The Twins got 4 of the top 10 prospects in the Mets organization, the thought that they're going to get a bigger haul than that is laughable.

@ the thought of either Bills or Kershaw being traded. Riccardi knows he wouldn't get that, but I see why he's starting there.

 

[651akathepaul]

Florida does it well too.

 

[frenchblue23]

They're are smoking if they think the Dodgers would give up Bills and Kershaw.

I'd package something that includes Juan Pierre.

 

[onewearz]

i'd put joba in a deal for doc. lets get it done cash ...........

 

[osh kosh bosh]

Originally Posted by P MAC ONE

So they're saying that they not going to give him a new contract.

Who said that?

 

[osh kosh bosh]

I don't wan't any of the Yankees prospects other than Jesus Montero nobody there peaks my interest.