Buzz: No Deal Offered by Cardinals for Matt Holliday
Cardinals John Mozeliak GM met for 90 minutes yesterday with Scott Boras, regarding free-agent OF Matt Holliday, yet no official bid was submitted, reports Joe Strauss of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
According to Strauss, “Mozeliak on Monday acknowledged a gulf remaining between the club and Boras but insisted a deal for starting pitching should not be construed as an abandonment of talks for Holliday.”
Strauss believes the Cardinals may be moving on to Plan B, signing Brad Penny to a one-year, $7.5 million deal, and looking elsewhere for offense, such as Nationals OF Adam Dunn.
…it seems most teams are taking the at-a-distance approach with holliday, in that, like the Mets, they have signaled to boras what they feel he is worth, boras disagrees, and so everyone is going on about their business, trying to ignore holliday, but knowing he will be there if need be, but he’ll cost… in the end, i feel this is going to play out like it always does for boras’s marquee clients, i.e., he’ll wait, wait, talk up holliday, keep waiting, then, when two or three teams are left with nobody, and in dire need of a bat, he’ll pit them against one another, introduce a ‘mystery team,’ and then get a deal from someone nobody expected better than most people expect…
…from what i understand, he started out asking for $160 million… however, most teams feel he’s worth giving a four– or five-year deal to… and so, again, i still feel, in the end, he’ll get a six-year deal, maybe with a seven-year option, and a least $100 million guaranteed…
…from who he gets it, though, remains to be seen…
