What's really behind the whole Halladay trade rumours ????
There seems to equal factions on both sides of the “trade Roy Halladay “front and both seem to be passionate about his future.
The sellers see the potential of a bountiful return, “we’ll get 4, maybe 5 players for Halladay, and they won’t cost near as much as he costs, so with the money we save, we can spend here and here.
The nay vote centres around keeping Halladay and signing him to a longer term deal, maybe we should be buyers at the trade deadline, that will make Halladay believe we have a plan as opposed to letting him walk after 2010 season and getting 2 draft picks back from whatever big budget team signs him.
Missing in all this posturing and rhetoric is what is the actual reason for trading him, or trying to stir up interest in the first place.
I may be dead wrong, but I do not believe that GM JP Riccardi was acting on his own stating the team would listen to any offers for any player (meaning, that includes your franchises best talent, and best guy).
Here is what I think is actually going on, so please indulge me in this fantasy observation of mine.
Attendance is horrible, school is out, vacations have started, football has started, parents are taking their kids to soccer games, and the fans are not coming, the kids are not coming, and attendance is dwindling except for American fans coming to watch the Red Sox or Yankees and spending US greenbacks at a better exchange rate in Canada.
The losing streak took all the oomph out of great start and media story, and they are starting to realise how much the team is costing them. Ted Rogers is not there making decisions, and the people that do are making financial decisions, not baseball decisions. So JP, why don’t you go out there, and speak to the US media, the ESPN’s and the FOX networks, and make sure the message gets out that Halladay is available. These guys are so stupid, but not entirely stupid. The want to get Halladay out there making the quotes, saying “Sure I would like to be on a winner, and I am not sure what direction Toronto is taking, and maybe it’s 50-50” Thanks Roy, that’s perfect, now just stand there and let the press and the sports media create a frenzy of potential buyers, like Philly, the Mets, Cardinals, I mean name everyone if you want.
JP Riccardi had help writing this script. While I do agree with Toronto Star writer Richard Griffin that JP likes to feed these tidbits more to the Eastern media rather than the scribes in Toronto. The thinking is make sure that the big affiliates pick this story up, and fuel trade frenzy; JP is not trading Halladay all by his lonesome. Same old JP that does very little interviews on radio or TV, so in my mind this is scripted by Rogers. Reduce payroll, because this end of the business is bleeding red ink. JP says you cannot trade Vernon Wells and 20 million plus a year headache, but Halladay has 18 months of full service still left and is also still performing at peak performance. He brings back young cheap controllable assets. Hey, if Brian Burke (with the Leafs) can do it, and promise no post season, and more tough times, and the fans here are buying it, why can’t we do it too.
The sellers see the potential of a bountiful return, “we’ll get 4, maybe 5 players for Halladay, and they won’t cost near as much as he costs, so with the money we save, we can spend here and here.
The nay vote centres around keeping Halladay and signing him to a longer term deal, maybe we should be buyers at the trade deadline, that will make Halladay believe we have a plan as opposed to letting him walk after 2010 season and getting 2 draft picks back from whatever big budget team signs him.
Missing in all this posturing and rhetoric is what is the actual reason for trading him, or trying to stir up interest in the first place.
I may be dead wrong, but I do not believe that GM JP Riccardi was acting on his own stating the team would listen to any offers for any player (meaning, that includes your franchises best talent, and best guy).
Here is what I think is actually going on, so please indulge me in this fantasy observation of mine.
Attendance is horrible, school is out, vacations have started, football has started, parents are taking their kids to soccer games, and the fans are not coming, the kids are not coming, and attendance is dwindling except for American fans coming to watch the Red Sox or Yankees and spending US greenbacks at a better exchange rate in Canada.
The losing streak took all the oomph out of great start and media story, and they are starting to realise how much the team is costing them. Ted Rogers is not there making decisions, and the people that do are making financial decisions, not baseball decisions. So JP, why don’t you go out there, and speak to the US media, the ESPN’s and the FOX networks, and make sure the message gets out that Halladay is available. These guys are so stupid, but not entirely stupid. The want to get Halladay out there making the quotes, saying “Sure I would like to be on a winner, and I am not sure what direction Toronto is taking, and maybe it’s 50-50” Thanks Roy, that’s perfect, now just stand there and let the press and the sports media create a frenzy of potential buyers, like Philly, the Mets, Cardinals, I mean name everyone if you want.
JP Riccardi had help writing this script. While I do agree with Toronto Star writer Richard Griffin that JP likes to feed these tidbits more to the Eastern media rather than the scribes in Toronto. The thinking is make sure that the big affiliates pick this story up, and fuel trade frenzy; JP is not trading Halladay all by his lonesome. Same old JP that does very little interviews on radio or TV, so in my mind this is scripted by Rogers. Reduce payroll, because this end of the business is bleeding red ink. JP says you cannot trade Vernon Wells and 20 million plus a year headache, but Halladay has 18 months of full service still left and is also still performing at peak performance. He brings back young cheap controllable assets. Hey, if Brian Burke (with the Leafs) can do it, and promise no post season, and more tough times, and the fans here are buying it, why can’t we do it too.
Make your own decisions bt ask yourself this, why with 18 month sleft on his contract do you trade away your best and most marketable player, with some teams already out of the playoff picture.
Steady on mates !!
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