Lip Man 1
12-14-2002, 09:25 PM
From Jason Stark's new column on ESPN.com:
Clubs that have spoken with the Expos report they've been told --or at least gotten hints -- that these are the ground rules and likely scenarios:
That Minaya would prefer to trade his lesser players -- the Cabreras and Barretts -- first, and then see if he can get down to his payroll level by trading only one of his Big Four (Colon, Guerrero, Vazquez and Vidro).
That he wants players in return who make virtually no money -- sure-thing prospects or young major-league players who aren't eligible yet for arbitration.
That it would take an almost unimaginable offer to get Guerrero --and even that might not do it.
That he seems more amenable to trading Vazquez than Colon.
That he prefers not to deal Colon or Vazquez to another team in the NL East -- even though all four teams in the division have some level of interest in one or both of them.
Lip
Clubs that have spoken with the Expos report they've been told --or at least gotten hints -- that these are the ground rules and likely scenarios:
That Minaya would prefer to trade his lesser players -- the Cabreras and Barretts -- first, and then see if he can get down to his payroll level by trading only one of his Big Four (Colon, Guerrero, Vazquez and Vidro).
That he wants players in return who make virtually no money -- sure-thing prospects or young major-league players who aren't eligible yet for arbitration.
That it would take an almost unimaginable offer to get Guerrero --and even that might not do it.
That he seems more amenable to trading Vazquez than Colon.
That he prefers not to deal Colon or Vazquez to another team in the NL East -- even though all four teams in the division have some level of interest in one or both of them.
Lip