http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/02/11/on-second-thought-johan-santana-has-begun-throwing-a-baseball/ Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball. Tue, 21 May 2013 04:53:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/02/11/on-second-thought-johan-santana-has-begun-throwing-a-baseball/comment-page-1/#comment-111226 Sat, 12 Feb 2011 21:37:49 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=39174#comment-111226 It will be interesting to see if the Mets try and move Santana sometime this season because of their obvious financial issues. Including the 2011 season the Mets owe Santana $77MM (not including 2014 vesting option). If Santana were to meet that vesting option his contract for the 4 years (2011/2014) would come to just about $100MM.
The problem with moving Santana is his injuries over the past couple of years, that coupled with is contract and the fact a team would have to give the Mets players/prospects makes it almost impossible for the Mets to move him. Unless the Mets picked up a good piece of his remaining salary probably 50% if they were looking for players in return and at least 30+% if they just wanted some team to take him off their hands. At this stage no team is going to surrender a quality major league player or class “A” prospects and pick up that salary.

]]> http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/02/11/on-second-thought-johan-santana-has-begun-throwing-a-baseball/comment-page-1/#comment-111175 Sat, 12 Feb 2011 06:25:52 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=39174#comment-111175 Cool.

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