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From Gordon Edes:
The Boston Red Sox have offered at least three players, including no-hit pitcher Clay Buchholz, to the Toronto Blue Jays for ace Roy Halladay, according to sources with direct knowledge of the negotiations, while placing rookie reliever Daniel Bard and 19-year-old phenom Casey Kelly off-limits in any deal.
Contrary to a prior Yahoo! dispatch, another 19-year-old, outfielder Ryan Westmoreland, a Rhode Island product drafted on the fifth round last summer, has not been a part of the Red Sox proposal.
The Blue Jays have been given the choice of reliever Justin Masterson, Triple-A pitcher Michael Bowden, or Double-A first baseman Lars Anderson as the second player in the deal, with lesser prospects from the Red Sox system filling out the Boston offer.
The Red Sox from the beginning have included Buchholz because the Blue Jays had made it clear he would have to be the starting point of any deal.
I'd love to get Halladay and I think the Sox have the money and the team to convince Halladay to sign an extension... The Sox have been huigh on Buchhy all along, but he's looking mroe and more like the No.3 or 4 that many scouts see him as.
I love Masterson and his versatility, but if Buchholz gets traded, I think he'll be the guy that goes with him becuase the Sox will need Bowden to stay and Lars Anderson still has lot to prove.
Bottom Line: If the deal is Buchholz, Masterson and some younger guys for Halladay I would do it. Lou Merloni mentioned Theo's thought process on trade and FA pickups yesterday on WEEI:
You win games by scoring more runs than the other team. You can accomplish that with run production (offense) or run prevention (pitching).
The Red Sox offense has been quiet, and personally, I'd rather get Victor Martinez than Halladay because V-Mart offers position versatility and a big bat. But if Halladay was added to this rotation, I don't see anyone beating us in the post season with Beckett, Doc and Lester as our starters - offense or no offense.
What do you guys think?
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