Yankees In On Dotel

You can add the Yankees to the growing list of teams interested in Royals' closer Octavio Dotel.  According to Tyler Kepner of the New York Times, the Yankees are interested despite Dotel's inability to contribute last year.  As you might expect, Kepner says Dayton Moore is still asking for too much.  Prices should get reasonable in about a week.

The list of teams interested in Dotel, as far as I know: Cubs, Dodgers, Brewers, Red Sox, Rockies, Indians, Yankees.  Today the Kansas City Star also mentioned the Tigers and Braves.  I haven't seen the Phillies or Mariners mentioned in print yet but we'll see.

One other Royals note: according to Dayton Moore, the Cubs never called about Zack Greinke.

Comments

[SBE]

Take what Moore says with a grain of salt, as he has stated before that he will not involve the media in any trade discussions.

He will not do deals with Ricciardi because last year J.P. talked to the Toronto media about a potential deal.

[Teetz]

Octavio Dotel is odd in that he is almost a righty specialist. He has significantly worse numbers against lefties than he does righties, which makes sense since he is mainly fastball/slider with no real changeup.

[Makaveli616]

I think it kind of funny that the Yanks are rumored to be after another player that they had last year and let go off (first Pena, now Dotel)...