Sox are going to have to make concessions in the way of money. It'll start with the guarantee of a full no-trade for the duration of the contract but he doesn't seem antsy to move. They're going to have to extend him and pay some dollars.
This makes no sense for Chicago. A team that obviously needs to enter rebuild mode, why commit tens of hundreds of millions to one player who will in all likelyhood, not perform to the same standard. AND trade away 2 young studs.
Peavy blocks trade San Diego Padres ace Jake Peavy has declined to be traded to the Chicago White Sox.
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_y...?slug=txpadreswhitesoxtrade&prov=st&type=lgns Padres ace Peavy turns down trade to White Sox 48 minutes ago Printable View Return to Original Buzz up! PrintBy ANDREW SELIGMAN AP Sports Writer CHICAGO(AP)—Jake Peavy(notes) is staying with the San Diego Padres. The ace pitcher turned down a trade to the Chicago White Sox, choosing Thursday to remain with his longtime team. The Padres and White Sox had reached an agreement, but needed the 2007 Cy Young Award winner to waive his no-trade clause. “As of right now, this is the best place for us to be. We made that decision for the time being,” Peavy said before Thursday night’s game against San Francisco. “It’s been a crazy 24 hours,” he said. “I don’t want to be any kind of distraction to the team. We’re playing as well as we possibly can, winning five in a row and I’ve got a big game tomorrow night vs. the Chicago Cubs.” Peavy said he would answer additional questions about his decision after Friday night’s start. Several hours before Peavy spoke, his agent, Barry Axelrod, said “my suspicion is he still has a strong preference to stay in the National League.” “There was a question posed to us as to whether Jake’s position on going to the American League was still cast in stone or whether he’d consent to going to an AL team, specifically, the White Sox,” Axelrod said. Peavy, who turns 28 later this month, is 3-5 with a 3.82 ERA. He made his major league debut with San Diego in 2002. Peavy and his wife have three sons, all under the age of 8. The Padres talked to the Cubs and Atlanta Braves during the offseason about a deal for the pitcher. Several reports said the White Sox would’ve sent top pitching prospect Aaron Poreda(notes) and young left-hander Clayton Richard(notes) to San Diego as part of the package for Peavy. White Sox general manager Ken Williams declined comment earlier Thursday and did not immediately respond to a message after Peavy spoke. While they were waiting for Peavy’s decision, the White Sox lost 20-1 to the Minnesota Twins. “I hope he don’t watch the scoreboard because he might say no,” White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen said. Outside the players’ garage at Petco Park in San Diego, someone hung a sign on a lampost that read: “5/21/09, the day Padre baseball died. Don’t take the trade Jake.” Peavy didn’t, and will stick around. For a while, anyway. Peavy made his announcement in the Padres dugout. Sitting next to him was 14-year-old Rory Wagner, a thyroid cancer patient who had wanted to spend time with Peavy and play catch with him. San Diego did complete one trade Thursday, getting outfielder Tony Gwynn(notes) Jr. from Milwaukee for outfielder Jody Gerut(notes). Peavy hugged Gerut before he left for the Brewers. The Padres, who lost 99 games last season and aren’t expected to contend this year, have been cutting payroll. Peavy is to earn $11 million this season, $15 million in 2010, $16 million in 2011 and $17 million in 2012. The Padres have a $22 million option for 2013 with a $4 million buyout. White Sox chairman Jerry Reinsdorf has expressed concern about spending big money in the current economic climate. Several older, high-paid players - including Jim Thome(notes), Jermaine Dye(notes), Jose Contreras(notes) and Octavio Dotel(notes) - can leave after this season, and that would’ve freed up payroll for the most expensive part of Peavy’s contract. The White Sox are off to a slow start, but are expected to contend in the closely bunched AL Central. “Having him in the rotation would be great,” Guillen said earlier in the day. “He’s one of the best in the game - if not the best in the game, at least the National League. He’s going to make our ballclub a lot better.” —-= AP Sports Writer Bernie Wilson in San Diego and Baseball Writer Ronald Blum in New York contributed to this report.
Overly simplistic terms. This White Sox team isn't one player away from being a contender. Maybe one player away from sneaking into the playoffs in a shitty division, and presumably getting bounced early. Not worth selling off cost-controlled talent for a guy who, while it'd be unfair to call him a complete product of Petco, certainly does have some gaudy home/road splits.
LTS hits the nail on the head. They are not 1 pitcher away from a title. They are a lineup and a starting 5 away. Trying to trade 2 very good prospects and 2 good prospects for one pitcher with awful home/away splits & who pitches a majority of his games in the god awful NL West. I never said he wasn't a good pitcher, because he is. But he is more a product of a pitcher park/bad division, in my opinion. Chicago is currently a train wreck. Peavy was not the answer.
Every team could use an ace, the only problem I see with Peavy is he at times is too strikeout heavy and throws a lot of pitches as well as occasionally get injured, but if he had a real team with him he'd be dominant
What is the deal w/ Peavy? It seems like he doesnt want to pitch anywhere and is complacent w/ playing for a mediocre padres franchise. I know San Diego is a tough place to wanna leave but c'mon...The padres have made it clear as day that they are in no position to win anytime soon and that theyd rather trade him for high end prospects for the future. Why would you want to be apart of that if you're an ace level pitcher?! There have been reports that he didnt want to go to the Braves,Yankees,Cubs,Angels and now the White Sox in assorted trade packages. I dont get it.
KTJF i thought that he said ok to deals with the Braves/Cubs/Yankees/Red Sox, but the Braves and Cubs couldn't get a deal in place for San Diego to bite and the Yankees and Red Sox haven't shown any interest. If he is comfortable right now, then there is no point going to a team that you don't want to go to. If the Cubs put a deal in place then he would ok the move, he pretty much did this off-season and Reed Johnson was quoted last night as saying that the Cubs know that the no trade clause wasn't a issue.
