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Tuesday Afternoon, the Yankees pulled out of negotiations with the Minnesota Twins for pitcher Johan Santana. Steinbrenner had given the Twins a deadline of Monday night to reach a deal…but the Twins did not make it happen.

“A deadline is a deadline — it was pretty much done as of this morning,” Steinbrenner told The Associated Press. “He’s a fine pitcher, but there’s a lot of things that go into this. This isn’t fantasy baseball.
“For a while, there’s no question, they asked for too much. To tell you the truth, toward the end, Minnesota negotiated in good faith. They really did. I have no problem with them. It was something we just couldn’t do.”

Phil Hughes and Melky Cabrera are the two main names that the Yankees were actually willing to part with..however…the Twins wanted Ian Kennedy thrown into the package- but the Yankees were not going for it.

The latest rumor has the Twins with a possible trade of Santana to go to the Red Sox for John Lester, Coco Crisp, and a few minor league players.
As far as the Yankees go…they may be in trade discussions for other possible pitchers, such as Erik Bedard and/or Dan Haren.

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1 comment to “No-Han Santana”

1. IPA-IBA said:
   December 7th, 2007 at 6:34 am

   That’s a shame. It’ll be interesting to see where he ends up next. If we makes it to the red sox it may make for interesting times!

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