Quote: Trades are Being Talked About
At MLB.com, Marty Noble does a great job of recapping Omar Minaya’s first day at the MLB Winter Meetings in Nashville.
In the report, Noble quotes a National League GM as saying…
“There’s so much out there. There’s no way to know where other teams stand. I’m not even sure where we are. I know how Omar feels. I think he wanted to make the big splash, and then he pulled back on that. And now, he might have pulled back again. But he plays it very close to the vest. S o you can’t say for sure…The way things are here, he could pull Santana and I can’t say I’d be shocked.”
…thanks to Peter Wade, MetsBlog’s eyes and ears, for the info…
Meanwhile, in USA Today, Bob Nightingale quotes White Sox GM Ken Williams as saying…
“We’re seeing trades again, good old-fashioned trades. I think we’re going to see more trades at these meetings than we’ve seen in recent memory.”
Lastly, Nightingale quotes A’s GM Billy Beane as saying…
“If somebody offers you everything west of the Mississippi, you have to listen. If Thomas Jefferson didn’t listen to offers, half of the U.S. would be French. Some people thought it was a bad deal at the time, but I think he proved to be right.”
…first of all, after reading this quote, i can’t only imagine how conversations between beane and Rick Peterson went while both were in oakland a few years back…at any rate, if the A’s need a package of prospects who equal the Louisiana Purchase, then i’m betting Dan Haren remains in oakland…i mean, beane actually used that value in a sentence…unreal…don’t ever change, billy…
