Bob Elliot on Red Sox offer for Halladay

by Tom Dakers on Sep 13, 2009 6:30 PM EDT in Toronto Blue Jays News

It is going to be talked about, let's put it up here:

"I have zero idea why they didn't take the Boston offer," said a National League scout this week. "The Red Sox offered Clay Buchholz, Justin Masterson, Daniel Bard, Michael Bowden, Felix Doubront and Nick Hagadone.

A couple of things strike me as strange about it. A 'National League scout' said this? Why would a scout from the other league know about this? Scouts generally aren't in on trades, obviously their opinion would be asked about players offered in a trade but he wouldn't be in on a trade. And he's apparently a scout in the other league. If the offer was so well known that scouts from teams that weren't involved in the trade know about it, we'd have heard this before. That's a pretty big circle for it not to get out until now.

But you never know.

Update...The Daily Dish added this to their post on this story:

UPDATE - Retracted Edition - Red Sox GM Theo Epstein said there was no truth to the report that the Red Sox offered six pitchers for the Blue Jays ace. The proposal did seem a little out of character for the Red Sox front office, who take a lot of pride in their young prospects.

OK, I think someone was just trying to make JP look bad. I would think there are enough things you can get on him for without having to make up stuff.

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by JayLo Biafra on Sep 13, 2009 12:24 PM EDT reply actions

Yeah, I call bullshit on that offer. If the Red Sox had made that offer, Doc would be suiting up for his sixth start in Boston right now.

by dexfarkin on Sep 13, 2009 12:59 PM EDT reply actions

It appears a fanstastic offer but lacks real substance

I can see why Ricchardi would reject this offer if the rumor were real. Buchholz would never be as good as Halladay; two relief pitchers that we don’t really need, and two other insignificant players. If they put Dustin Pedroia in that offer, it would then be too good to pass up.

by Jason Z on Sep 13, 2009 1:07 PM EDT reply actions

I think if such a trade was offered it would have been accepted.

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by JohnnyG on Sep 13, 2009 1:09 PM EDT reply actions

Thats a lot of "maybe" players in that deal. Nobody stands out as a top of the line talent

by syc on Sep 13, 2009 1:41 PM EDT reply actions

No way

this offer was made.

It’s a travesty Elliot would publish that.

We all know Boston refused to move Bard.

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by eyebleaf on Sep 13, 2009 2:44 PM EDT reply actions

Agreed. Boston was even hesitant on offering Masterson in conjunction with Buchholz. So, there was no way Boston offered Masterson and Bard in the same deal.

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by bkblades on Sep 13, 2009 4:14 PM EDT up reply actions