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The Boston Red Sox don’t have the depth in their farm system make a trade for Roy Halladay and fill the rest of the holes on their team. They’ve added Clay Buchholz to their offer for Roy Halladay.

The Red Sox’s best two best prospects are Ryan Westmoreland and Casey Kelly and they are both are in A Ball. They also won’t trade their 19 year old Cuban SS Jose Iglesias. That’s the only 3 guys that other teams really like.

The Red Sox don’t have anybody that is good as Jesus Montero, Austin Jackson, Jesus Montero, Phil Hughes, Joba Chamberlain, Chris McAllister, Manuel Banuelos, and Ivan Nova.

The Blue Jays just don’t want money. They want money and prospects but Halladay controls his own fate more than the Blue Jays. He tells the Blue Jays which team he wants to go to or he’ll become a free agent at the end of the year. They can let him walk and be happy with the two draft picks they get when he leaves as a free agent in November of 2010.

The Yankees can take their time on a deal for Halladay. They don’t have many holes to fill.

The Red Sox have a lot of holes to fill. They need another starting pitcher, a left-fielder and a short stop.

They should go after Jason Bay, Harden and maybe Scutaro. That would mean going into the season with Lowell at third, Ortiz at DH and Martinez at catcher. They should hold onto Buchholz because they’ll need him in the rotation.

Victor Martinez , Josh Beckett and Mike Lowell are free agents next year and David Ortiz and Drew will need to be replaced in 2011. Ortiz might even be done as a ball player because he was a steroid user so who knows if he will be able to hit without the steroids. He showed he couldn’t hit without the roids this past year.

The Mariners are looking at Jason Bay and if Bay goes there, the Red Sox will get more desparate.

Boston also has financial restrictions.

I don’t think the Yankees will trade Jesus Montero even though he’s not the best defensive catcher. He’ll be like the next Jorge Posada if they don’t move him first base. The Yankees have advantages in positions that other teams don’t. This is what makes the Yankees’ line up deep and it allows them to play a player like Melky Cabrera or Brett Gardner in center-field.

They know how good of a hitter Montero is but he’s not ready for the pros yet. He’ll need more time to develop.

I’m not sure you can trade both, Joba Chamberlain and Phil Hughes for Roy Halladay. You keep one and Roy Halladay is a much bigger improvment over the other pitcher.

The Steinbrenner brothers want to get the payroll under 200 million. Halladay’s contract won’t allow the Yankees to do that.

Still, Halladay gives you the best chance to win in the next four years.

Joba and Phil Hughes are both young but I don’t know if they have what it takes to be a starting pitcher. I think Cashman knows this too. If the Blue Jays want both pitchers, I don’t think Cashman takes the deal though.

You still can’t over hype our prospects because I don’t know one trade in the past 10 years where one of our prospects were traded and became a huge star.

I do believe that a trade involving Joba, Phil and maybe Austin Romine with an A ball prospect is a better deal than the Blue Jays can receive from any one. This doesn’t mean we will get Halladay. The Yankees just have the pieces to make a deal for Halladay and not drain the farm.

What it comes down to is how the Blue Jays rank Joba, Phil compared to Bucholtz. If they like Bucholtz better than the Red Sox have the edge. I don’t believe in his heart that Halladay thinks that the Red Sox could give him a contract as good as the Yankees can.

The Yankees just won the World Series with using a mixture of veterans and young talent. Cashman is not going to change this strategy so I don’t know if he’s willing to trade away young talent.

Cashman wasn’t likely to change his strategy before they won their 27th World Series title and he’s even less likely to change now.

This allows the Yankees to have the upper hand. Halladay knows the Yankees will give him the most money and if he tells the Blue Jays that he’d only pitch for the Yankees, the Yankees can get away with out giving up better and more prospects.

Even though Halladay would give the Yankees the best chance to repeat, I actually don’t see the Yankees landing him. What I see is the Yankees driving up the price for the Red Sox to get him.

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