The baseball off-season has seen some crazy contracts - Gil Meche got $55 million, one million from the Royals (the Royals!) which is a million per for every career win he has currently. Ted Lilly got four years for $40 million, a guy who's never been more than a .500 pitcher. Don't get me started on J.D. Drew getting $70 million dollars or Carlos Lee getting $100 million.
Because free agency has gotten so out of whack, teams are now looking into trades and as said before, teams out west are lining like people at the deli counter for Randy Johnson. The Big Unit has also seemed more like a Grinch to most people, according to Bob Klapisch of the Bergen Record: http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkxMTMmZmdiZWw3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTcwNDU1NTQmeXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk2
The Newark Star-Ledger, who first reported the story, says the Padres have the inside track and offered the most so far:
http://www.nj.com/yankees/ledger/index.ssf?/base/sports-1/1167201728105740.xml&coll=1
The Daily News says the Yanks want to settle this by the weekend, so this could be a fast moving story. Along with that little nugget, they claim the Mariners and Angels are in on the bidding war:
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/story/483406p-406909c.html
Finally, Ken Davidoff of Newsday says that trading Mr. Congeniality would be a mistake:
http://www.newsday.com/sports/printedition/ny-spken275030195dec27,0,373804.column?coll=ny-sports-print
Depending on what source you believe, the Yankees are interested in Barry Zito, not interested in Barry Zito, making a push for Clemens, and the Padres and Diamondbacks, along with other teams are bidding. It's weird, as a young sportswriter to see so many unattributed sources, but I guess that's the nature of the business.
Back here later for more. Going to be on www.brooklyncollegeradio.org in about an hour.
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Why?! Why are the Yankees being this stupid?!
Randy Johnson follows in the pattern of Yank stupidity this year. They have almost no chance of getting rid of him and his remaining contract.
They've already dealt away Jared Wright when he was possibly one of the up and coming bright spots of the team. They've also decided to trash their outfield by not keeping Melky Cabrera. When Sheffield and Matsui were out with injuries the Yanks couldn't have asked for a better replacement! Melky came in playing the perfect Paul O'Neil role. Speed, great range, rocket arm. They already got rid of Sheffield so Melky COULD'VE played perm outfield but no! They got rid of him!
As a Yankee fan I would love to go and smack our GM!
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