Buzz: Angels and Dodgers Impact on Santana

by Matthew Cerrone on November 21st, 2007 at 9:53 am

According to the Los Angeles Times, given the recent acquisition of RHP Jon Garland, the Angels may look to ‘parlay a pitching surplus’ into a power bat, such as O’s SS Miguel Tejada, which Gerry Fraley of the Sporting News agrees with, as well.

Meanwhile, at Fox Sports, Ken Rosenthal believes the Dodgers are now the front runners to acquire Marlins 3B Miguel Cabrera, though the Angels have interest, too.

…why does this matter to the Mets…well, from what i can gather, the only teams who a) have the necessary players to trade for Twins RHP Johan Santana, but who also b) will do so because they are confident santana will sign an extension with his new team, are the Mets, Yankees, Dodgers, Angels and Red Sox…

…so, if the Angels acquire tejada, and the Dodgers acquire cabrera, they will not be players for santana, since they will likely no longer have the chips to acquire him, leaving the Mets to compete with the Yankees and Red Sox…

…according to endless rumors, reports, buzz, online speculation, etc, the Red Sox will be expected to part with a small group from OF Jacoby Ellsbury, LHP Jon Lester and RHP Clay Buchholz, among others; while the Yankees will be expected to part with some combination of RHP Phil Hughes, OF Melky Cabrera and RHP Ian Kennedy…

…the question will be, which team is going to overpay just to get santana in house, in hopes of signing him to an extension, which, i assume, will need to be more than the seven-year, $130 million given to Barry Zito…

…on the surface, the Mets cannot compete with what the Red Sox and Yankees can offer, which is why the popular rhetoric seems to always insist on including Jose Reyes, which i don’t understand…i mean, if the Yankees are unwilling to part with hughes, as they keep insisting upon, but the Mets will part with whomever is needed short of reyes, then why should the Mets have to part with reyes…i don’t get it…the same is the case should the Sox say ellsbury and lester are off the table…the question isn’t necessarily about reyes, it’s whether the Mets best offer is better than what the Red Sox and Yankees are willing to offer, in total…

…yes, hughes and lester are far more valueable than Mike Pelfrey according to you, me and the experts…but, if hughes and buchholz are off the table, who cares who is more valueble to you, me and the experts…all that matters is that the Twins accept the best possible offer…

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