ROY HALLADAY FINALLY GOING SOMEWHERE
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If there’s one thing we be vexed here at BLB, it’s teams pussyfooting around. The Toronto Blue Jays have hold Roy Halladay warrant for over an finish season, but it looks as nonetheless they’re ready to boat him off to Philadelphia.
In what should go down as the greatest post-winter meetings blockbuster of the offseason, Halladay is expected to be traded to the Phillies in a three-team stunner… at the price of lefty genius Cliff Lee and a couple of prospects.
The barter isn’t utterly finish yet, opposition on a intensity three-year, $60 million stipulate prolongation for Doc along with a doctor’s note for all players involved. So here’s the deal. The Jays would get prospects from the Phillies: presumably outfielders Michael Taylor and Domonic Brown, catcher Travis d’Arnaud, and may be even former #1 collect and highly-touted right-hander Kyle Drabek. And that’s not all.
Seattle would afterwards send 6′7″ tip pitching awaiting Phillippe Aumont to possibly the Phils or Toronto, whilst adding to their payroll 2008 AL Cy Young leader Clifton Lee, who will turn a giveaway representative after earning $9 million this season.
Halladay, who was speckled in Philadelphia for a physical, has one year left on his contract, that would plate out $15.75 million to him in 2010. Even nonetheless Old Roy is the ccenterpiece in this thing, the Mariners have been murmur in the Angels’ ear: we’ve got a brand new one-two punch and a badass top of the order. And we’re entrance for ya.
[Philadelphia Inquirer] | [MLB Trade Rumors] | [The Fightins] | [The 700 Level]
