White Sox Offer for Tejada?

by slink on Dec 30, 2005 10:50 AM CST

According to mlbtraderumors the Sox have offered two options:

Option 1: Jose Contreras, Juan Uribe, and one minor league prospect for Tejada.

Option 2: Brandon McCarthy, Juan Uribe, 20 year-old southpaw Alex Woodson, and another minor leaguer for Tejada. In this scenario, the White Sox would get cash back from the Orioles in the third and fourth years of Tejada's contract.

Now I've posted on this site that I don't want Tejada in a Cubs uniform given the cost, but I don't know what I'd do if he helped the Sox to another Pennant.

Does this compete with what the cubs have offered? Will Hendry be pressured to step up his offer? Will he give up altogether on Tejada (please)? Head spinning...

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I think these...

deals are worse than the ones the Cubs supposedly offered, but not by much.

If I was the Orioles, I would take Brandon McCarthy. Honestly, the White Sox can do whatever they want. I don't think Hendry should offer more than he already has. If Tejada is on the White Sox next year, then I can't wait to see when Prior strikes him out.

Cubbie Blue always sPaRkLes in my eyes. Time to sPaRkLe Jimmy!

by sparkles721 on Dec 30, 2005 10:58 AM CST reply actions

Worse?

If I'm the Orioles, I take the McCarthy option of the Sox deal. The key is they don't give up Bedard. That's huge, and it's why they didn't pull the trigger on the Cubs' deal.

by cubz1963 on Dec 30, 2005 12:23 PM CST up reply actions

Good point...

I didn't think of the deal as a whole. I was just looking at what the Cubs offered compared to the Sox.

Cubbie Blue always sPaRkLes in my eyes. Time to sPaRkLe Jimmy!

by sparkles721 on Dec 30, 2005 12:30 PM CST up reply actions

have to agree -- these outclass the cub offer

the o's aren't giving up any pitching, only acquiring it, which must be key for them; and what they'd be getting in other prospects is considerably better than the cubs were able to offer.

by gaius marius on Dec 30, 2005 12:42 PM CST up reply actions

Not that I'm saying that these scenarios...

...are impossible, but keep in mind that mlbtraderumors.com is, quite possibly, the most ridiculously unreliable, far-fetched, and useless baseball website in the universe.

To whit: That site once posted a rumor that Sammy Sosa was on his way back to the Cubs in 2006!!!

by Santos L Halper on Dec 30, 2005 10:59 AM CST reply actions

this is why

its called MLBTRADERUMORS.COM there just rumors..rumors arent always true..its just something to give us to think about until the season starts

"Slump ? I ain't in no slump. I just ain't hittin." --Yogi Berra

by nick3308 on Dec 30, 2005 2:08 PM CST reply actions

The Orioles

have the right idea. Acquire pitching, not rid yourself of it. I just don't see how the Cubs could even entertain the idea of trading away one of the few real arms that they have. Maddux is fading, Williams and Glendon are basically unproven 4th or 5th starters, and Hill is Priors age and hasen't done anything worth mentioning.

The Sox have the room to move a pitcher or two, the Cubs do not.

by Elwood1060 on Dec 31, 2005 10:10 AM CST reply actions