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Source: Jays won't let teams negotiate with Halladay
In the midst of all the Roy Halladay speculation, there is something you should know: Any team acquiring Halladay probably would not be able to negotiate with him until after a trade were complete.
According to a baseball source, the Toronto Blue Jays will not allow any interested team to negotiate with a player should a trade be agreed upon prior to the July 31 trading deadline. In some cases, teams shopping a player like Halladay will allow interested clubs to negotiate with the player prior to formalizing a trade. In this case, the Jays have no such intention.
Halladay, 32, is currently signed through the end of next season. Part of the reason the Jays would not allow an acquiring club to negotiate is because the new team already would have nearly a year and a half to negotiate with the player.
Widely regarded as one of the best pitchers in baseball, Halladay has no-trade language in his contract that might have allowed him to leverage an extension if and when the Jays elected to trade him. That scenario is precisely what unfolded in November 2003, when the Red Sox acquired Curt Schilling in a trade with the Arizona Diamondbacks. Schilling, who was signed for just one more season at the time, eventually received a two-year extension through 2006 with an option for 2007 that vested when the Red Sox won the 2004 World Series.
Halladay currently is earning a base salary of $14.25 million and is due to earn $15.75 million next season. The Jays are demanding a package of multiple top shelf prospects in exchange for his services. That price could be even higher if the Blue Jays traded Halladay to the Red Sox or Yankees, both of whom reside with the Blue Jays in the American League East.
Halladay addressed his current position and a possible trade today in St. Louis, where he was named the American League starter for tomorrow's All-Sar Game.
"It's [Toronto] somewhere I enjoy being ... where I've spent all of my career," Halladay said. "As a player there's that will to win and do it in October. I would like that chance. I'm not saying it won't be Toronto. What's best for the organization ... but it has been tough because I enjoy Toronto so much. You'd like to be three games up and not have to deal with this."
The Globe's Nick Cafardo contributed to this report.
And Buchholz is pitching one game for the Sox...in Toronto...on Friday. Yeah.
If Halladay wants a window to negotiate a new contract, he can threaten the Jays to exercise his no trade clause unless the Jays allow such a window.
"3 games up"? Sounds like he's looking at the Sox, but they'd be nuts to trade good value and then still pay market rates for any guy. Sucker move, and Theo makes very few of those.
I hope he ends up in the National League. I doubt very much that the Blue Jays want him to end up in the AL East. I also think the Red Sox interest is more preemptive than any thing else - should the team from NYC make a bid for him.
Bucholtz, Delcarmen and whatever else they want. Agree to take Vernon Wells and his horrible contract and maybe give up less young talent.
Add the best pitcher in baseball and win the next couple World Series. Think about it - Halladay, Beckett, Lester, your three pitcher playoff rotation.
The Sox are one of the few teams in baseball who have the talent to offer the Jays to make this deal happen. It makes me laugh when the Yankees dream about it - what are they going to offer??? Some of their disasterous young pitchers?
"Any team acquiring Halladay probably would not be able to negotiate with him until after a trade were complete."
They are overplaying their hand so badly.
DONT DO IT! DONT!
Hey Tony, just an FYI ... JP Ricciardi went on the record about this LAST WEEK. Joel Sherman reported it July 8th after hearing it DIRECTLY from Ricciardi.
Seems like you need a better "baseball source" who can give you information on a more timely basis.
Then a trade will not happen - Halladay has a no trade clause. He probably wont waive it unless he gets an extension from a new team. Toronto is just wasting everyones time.
No negotiation window, no deal.
It's that simple.
Halladay is the ultimate team player and very involved in the local Toronto community. He is the total antithesis of Burnett who was a locker room cancer and left for the Yanks this year. Even though the Jays attendance is down, the Jays have to be careful for the backlash they will get if he is traded because he is so well respected. If he is traded, I can only see him going to a National league team. You never heard anything negative about him on or off the field. Good luck Roy wherever you go if you are unloaded.
Toronto must really not want to trade Halladay then. The biggest concern from teams giving up the amount of talent Ricciardi is demanding is that there is no guarantee that Halladay will pitch for you beyond next season. If Ricciardi really had intentions of moving Halladay, he would allow negotiations as terms of the trade. Otherwise, what team will be stupid enough to give up 3-5 top prospects when Halladay is likely to walk after the 2010 season? Even if he was simply trying to see what offers are out there, he just shot himself in the foot.
Makes no sense Tony.. did your "source" give any indication as to why? Or are you just throwing more theories on the wall again?
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