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Rangers Were Close To Acquiring Johan
SI.com's Jon Heyman checks in with some inside info from the What Might've Been file. He says the Rangers and Twins were close to an agreement on the players involved in a trade that would've sent Johan Santana to Texas. The Twins pulled the plug when Santana was noncommital about whether he'd approve a trade to the Rangers. They felt that this would've decreased his market value (instead the Twins ended up overplaying their hand and accepting the second or third-best offer).
Heyman speculates that the Rangers could've offered Eric Hurley and/or Edinson Volquez, for starters. A Taylor Teagarden and various high-ceiling types could've been in there too, I imagine. Would've been interesting to see Minnesota get Teagarden and shift Joe Mauer to third base in '09.
The Rangers hoped to pair Johan with Torii Hunter, but Hunter couldn't pass on the Angels' offer. Five years, $90MM is the kind of offer he had to pounce on.
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Hey Tim:
Based on the fact Heyman said the Rangers were set to offer bigger money than NY, does this change your thoughts on whether or not they will throw big money at Sabathia. It appears Hicks may be willing to jump back into the deep end if it means getting a proven ace.
Posted by: SteveBuechele | March 14, 2008 at 04:20 PM
That logic does make sense to me.
Posted by: Tim Dierkes | March 14, 2008 at 04:38 PM
Any thoughts on how this would have affected the Josh Hamilton trade?
If the Rangers would have gotten Torri and Johan would they have had enough or had the desire to get Josh? An outfield of Josh, Torri, and Milton Bradley with Byrd as the 4th is a pretty impressvie outfield. Add that with a healthy Blaylock, Young, and Kinsler, plus Salty and Laird and a Ben Broussard that returned to form, that would be quite a lineup.
Then you have Milwood as the #2 the rangers would have been very very competitive in the West this year. My what could have been.
Posted by: Bleacher_Buddha | March 15, 2008 at 08:18 AM