Buzz: Who Can Trade for Johan Santana
Last week, citing ‘the word in baseball circles,’the Minneapolis Star-Tribune wrote that the Twins recently made a five-year, $93 million offer to Johan Santana.
Today, though he doesn’t provide a link, in his blog for ESPN.com, Buster Olney cites a ‘report,’ which states Santana recently rejected the deal.
According to Olney, the Mets, Red Sox and Yankees will aggressively pursue Santana.
Of course, in a recent chat for the Boston Globe, in-the-know Sox columnist Nick Cafardo writes that, while the Sox will have interest in Santana, “It seems to me they won’t give up both Lester and Buchholz and certainly not Ellsbury.”
However, the only relevant, on-record statement from the Yankees has come from their senior vice president, Hank Steinbrenner, who told the New York Times that his team will not trade Phil Hughes, Joba Chamberlain and Ian Kennedy for a ‘position player,’ which Santana is not.
…if the sox will not include lester or buccholz and ellsbury they are not in the running to trade for santana…which means, and i shudder to say this, but, the Mets top competition to land santana could be the Yankees…
