Passan: Ten Degrees: Trade-deadline talkers (re: Halladay)

[J-Roc]

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=A ... &type=lgns

Toronto general manager J.P. Ricciardi said he would consider trading the right-hander. Since then, a half-dozen teams have seriously engaged the Blue Jays, a million rumors have leaked from those talks

Halladay is first in complete games (42, and no one else has 30), tied for first in victories (129) and shutouts (11), second in earned-run average (to Johan Santana(notes)) and homers allowed per nine innings (to Brandon Webb(notes)), sixth in innings pitched and walks per nine and seventh in total strikeouts.

Now, at the price of J.A. Happ(notes), Kyle Drabek and Dominic Brown – well, giving up a major league starter and the best pitcher and position player in the minor league system is ludicrous.

Any team walking at Halladay’s price is considering [Cliff] Lee, including Philadelphia, the Angels and Boston …

[JP would] like to replenish an average-at-best system from the outside. It’s not just Halladay on the block. He’s shopping Scott Rolen(notes), Marco Scutaro(notes), Scott Downs(notes), Lyle Overbay(notes) and, of course, the albatross contracts of Vernon Wells(notes) and Alex Rios(notes). The total haul for all of them wouldn’t equal what Halladay alone can pull

[Raptors Realtor]

I'd be all over Halladay for Drabek, Happ & Brown... I'd even be willing to switch Happ for another top prospect, as I believe we'd be buying him very high!

And if JP get can get someone to take Wells, RIos & their inflated contracts off our hands, by all means... do it!

Good luck JP, you're gonna need it!

[Silk Wilkes]

Any chance the Phillies still deal for Doc to make them virtually unstoppable this year? Sure, they'd have to kill their farm system after getting Lee but a starting rotation including Hamels, Lee and Halladay would be amazing.

[_venom_]

Any chance the Phillies still deal for Doc to make them virtually unstoppable this year? Sure, they'd have to kill their farm system after getting Lee but a starting rotation including Hamels, Lee and Halladay would be amazing.

Not gonna happen. Hamels and Howard will both need extensions soon and they aren't going to gut their system entirely to get Doc and Lee. They wanted Doc, JP asked for too much, they moved on to Lee. There's no way Halladay goes to the Phillies now.