Buzz: Mets and Brian Giles
Yesterday on ESPN’s Baseball Tonight, Olney mentioned that the Mets and Padres have had talks involving Padres OF Brian Giles.
Giles’s contract holds a $9 million team option for next season. However, if he is traded, the option jumps to $11 million. Or, he could be bought out and made a free agent for $3 million.
Giles reportedly has a no-trade clause including eight teams.
…in july, the buzz from san diego was that they would end up keeping giles for two reasons, a) most of the teams on his no-trade list are from the east coast, who are the teams that will most likely want to acquire him, and b) he loves san diego, and the team is not likely to find a comparable outfielder for one year and $9 million like giles on the open market this off-season…
…that said, the Padres could very easily have changed their tune, especially considering how many teams are looking for a left fielder and the asking prices for guys like Matt Holliday, Jason Bay and Xavier Nady…
Giles is batting .301 with a .397 OBP, five HR and 35 RBI in 91 games for the Padres this season.
He has played nearly all of his games in right field this season, and has not regularly played left field since 2003.
