Who Are You Calling a Lackey?
Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports is reporting that former Angels pitcher John Lackey took a physical today with the Boston Red Sox, "an indication that he is close to an agreement with the team, according to a major-league source."
Rosenthal said the deal will look somewhat like the deal AJ Burnett signed with the Yankees last year.
At first glance, this could mean many things. First, they have lost their minds and clearly thing Lackey is a great pitcher (if the money/terms are true) and furthermore, it might be a prelude to yet a larger deal.
Consider a starting rotation of: Lester, Beckett, Matsuzaka, Buchholz and Wakefield, unless Wakefield is not progressing quickly enough from off-season surgery, or the Red Sox are pioneering a 6-man rotation, it could mean a deal is in the works to trade Buchholz for an offensive upgrade.
After not hearing about Adrian Gonzalez for a while, Nick Cafardo of the Boston Globe mentioned that Boston and San Diego have discussed a deal for Gonzalez, but couldn't agree on players. The mention of talks was encouraging to me as I hadn't heard any of trade talk between the 2 teams.
More to come...
Like Ken Rosenthal did, I should note that Ed Price of AOL Fanhouse broke this story. Price is the same guy I said I hadn't heard of before and therefore assumed was a slacker...YankeesRedSox.com management disciplined me.
