Personally, for several reasons, I doubt it.
A. The Red Sox and Yankees are the front runners. Neither will let the other team get Santana, meaning the price will continually increase... despite neither team actually being willing to pay for him.
B. The current Value for pitching. Just look at the Dan Haren trade. The Diamondbacks traded some very good young talent to get Haren. While Haren is a great pitcher, Johan makes him seem like a 3 or 4 starter. No one even HAS the talent that Minnesota wants right now and even if they did, no GM in his right mind would trade away said talent to get a guy who is only going to make a difference in 1/5 of your games at best.
C. So... when will he be traded? Personally, I can't see him being traded until the August trade deadline is looming close. Unless the asking price comes down, he'll stay put in Minnesota for a while longer.
What are your thoughts?
2007-12-23
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