Baseball Teams Looking to Buy Their Own Halladay

Sports Betting News - July 8th, 2009 - Written by Bruce

The Toronto Blue Jays have announced they are willing to hear offers from other teams in a possible trade for all-start stud pitcher Roy Halladay.  Halladay is consistently one of the American League top 3 pitchers every year, and now other teams are looking to capitalize on his success.  The Blue Jays are 8 games behind the Boston Red Sox with only 5 games left before the all-star break.  The Blue Jays will need a tremendous effort to make the postseason now, a reality the Blue Jays organization is smart enough to realize is to far out of reach.  So with a huge payroll on the rise in 2010, with some role players such as Scott Rollen and B.J. Ryan making over 10 million dollars each.  The Toronto organization has decided to make a move and gain some talented players for Roy Halladay.

Halladay is proposed to being sought after by 3 major contenders in major league baseball.  The Yankees are of course in the discussion of a trade as well as A.L. East rival the Boston Red Sox.  N.L. teams considering a block buster trade are the Philadelphia Phillies and the LA Dodgers.  However Halladay is owed over 15 million dollars next year the last year remaining on his contract and, not many teams have the cap space available to make such a move.  This means the trade would have to include more than one team and a combination of players for both teams involved in the trade.  ESPN.com reported Blue Jays GM J.P. Ricciardi said he would only trade Halladay for 4 or 5 good players and prospects and nothing less. 

The Halladay trade talk has amplified interest in the moving of such quality players in Major League Baseball.  The reality is, as much as teams want to make a move for Halladay he is just a bit to expensive and the Blue Jays want all they can get for him, more than other teams are willing to offer.  So expect to see Roy Halladay in a Blue Jays jersey for the rest of this year and all of the 2010 season.  Halladay will have a new jersey some day, it's just more likely to come during free agency at the end of the 2010 season.