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Originally Posted by Joey Slugs
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I think you're the 2nd or 3rd person to note this.
Anyway, on Hero's point, yes it would make very little sense for Baltimore to make a deal like that.
You'd be helping someone in your division, you wouldn't be saving money (even if the sox pickup part of many's deal), you wouldn't be getting prospects, the only thing you might do is sell a few more seats cause Manny "might" be a bigger draw then Tejada.
For the sox it's a no brainer, less money, younger, great SS, the list goes on.
It's funny, heard a sports guy from Baltimore, saying how the Baltimore front office was shocked, and that Tejada has said stuff like this before and quickly flip/flopped. He said "a good front office would already have someone on a plane to the dominican to talk with him and find out what they can/need to do, but this team doesn't have a good front office".
If Baltimore was to deal him to the Red Sox, I'd think it's 2-3 prospects or maybe tie in a pitcher like Arroyo and then the Sox would need to ship Manny somewhere to cut salary.
Although, imagine Manny, Ortiz & Tejada on the same team...
