Mega Blockbuster Near: Halladay to Phils, Lee to M's, Stuff to Jays

[Swifty]

I also think that when you're a team constructed as the Phillies are, Lee is no longer worth what he cost at the deadline, Lee is now worth the arby picks. The Phillies clearly won in that department because there's development that goes into this picks in terms of both time and money. Aumont is not spectacular, but he's at least a 2011/2 player for them, anything they get from Lee's compensation pick isn't a player of consequence until 2014 or 2015. They sped up the clock on that and for that, if nothing else, they won the Lee trade.

The Mariners did quite well for themselves and when you consider that its evident that they need to overpay to get players to come to Seattle (at least at the moment) pairing Felix with Lee, seeing if the two love it and trying to get them both to re-up long term is about as calculated a gamble as a team in their situation (money to burn, undesirable free agent location) can hope to take.

[Party]

So the Ehs ended up getting Taylor for Wallace. I like this move.

[BigGameFish]

On SportsCenter today a segment of a radio interview with Cliff Lee was played in which he said something along the lines of

"I was prepared to spend the rest of my career in Philidelphia"
"I enjoyed my time there"
"I am disappointed to hear the false rumors that I was traded because I was 'asking for more money', that simply isnt true"

Intresting.