Deal For Santana Off? Don't Count on It..and Detroit is Now the Team to Beat

If A-Rod is any indication, Hank Stienbrenners soft deadlines and hollow threats are nothing to take too seriously. Especially now that the Sox seem to be making a legitimate push to aquire Santana. The Twins have played this one perfectly knowing that the biggest rivals in all of sports would eventually duke it out for the rights the two time Cy Young winner. However the Twins have forgotten about this little thing called a no trade clause and that Santana actually WANTS to play for New York. Honestly though at the end of the day the Yankees were offering a better package than the Sox. Despite the talk, this deal isn't dead yet. I just hope that they Yankees don't cave and offer up Hughes AND Kennedy, in that case the trade just wouldn't be worth it.

The real head line of the day is Cabrera and Willis are headed to Detroit for a package of six players. This simply baffeles me. Somehow Florida has been able to hoist up two world series trophies in the past decade (just as many as the Sox) and yet they never even try to hold on to thier top talent because they know they can't afford to. Both Florida teams are like a revolving door. The good young prospects come out of Miami, and then the old washed up ones head back to Tampa to retire. Its a shame and it goes a long way to making the argument that baseball expanded to fast and into the wrong markets (DC being the shining exception). But that is an argument for another day. So now Detroit is stacked to the gills. Good for them, bad for the Yankees prospects of earning number 27. It is going to be an interesting 2008.