This has been a wild couple of days. A year ago this week I launched the radio show blog. The response, both positive and negative, has been far greater than I anticipated. We had a record traffic day today and many nice comments over Facebook, Twitter, and email. Every time a deadline is over writers [...]

Burnt out from the trading deadline but wanted to add one more via Bart Hubbuch at his twitter. Apparent setback for Jose Reyes. He didn’t run the bases as expected Thursday and now has no timetable for doing so. I think it’s time to consider shutting him down for 2009 and getting him 100% healthy [...]

Update 4:10 PM Yankees gave up C Chase Weems in the deal. A-Jax is still, predictably, a Yankee. Update: 4:00 PM Rumors that Austin Jackson is in the deal (this is not our rumor, from Jonathan Mayo). Frank doesn’t see that happening. Jonathan Mayo of MLB is looking into this. Check his updates via twitter. [...]

Update 4:25 PM Spoke to Joe Demayo and he was told Mets were giving up minor leaguers (one name thrown about was Ruben Tejada) for LaRoche, Kotchman trumped that easily. Mets were in on it. I am not crying over this one. Update 3:55 PM Casey Kotchman was sent to Boston for LaRoche as per [...]

Take a read and try to figure this one out like we are MLB Trade Rumors Bob Nightengale- USA Today Ed Price- AOL Fanhouse Jayson Stark reports that the asking price for Adrian Gonzalez is “astronomical” three times as much as Roy Halladay. Based on what Frank Russo has been telling me about San Diego, [...]

Our main source down in Tampa just called to tell me that it appears that, sadly, the Yanks are sitting this one out. There appears to be less than a 10% chance that Cashman will make a move of any kind, let alone a major deal. Financial constraints, and not wanting to move any of [...]

Frank Russo was told by an NL executive that has talked to several baseball people who all agreed that the Yankees are “sitting this one out.” After weeks of hearing Cashman talk about “internal options” this should not be a surprise. The news about tight Yankees finances, that both Joel Sherman and Matt Cerrone discussed [...]

via Jon Heyman at twitter. Red Sox still talking Adrian Gonzalez. Buchholz, Lowrie, Masterson in mix. SD wants Ryan Westmoreland and Lars Anderson, too. If I am Boston I definitely would go after Gonzalez instead of Victor Martinez since he is a more complete player. I think Gonzalez would be their version of Mark Teixeira. [...]

Chad Jennings reports that Shelley Duncan is joining the Yanks tonight in Chicago. No word on who will be sent down. Does this have any impact on the Yanks dealing? Doubt it. They may as well send Mark Melancon back down since he never pitches. Duncan gives them a decent bat off the bench who [...]

Frank Russo mentioned on last night’s show how Peter Angelos doesn’t like the Yankees. He heard rumblings about the Orioles not wanting to send George Sherrill to an AL Team. Today, his league source told him that Angelos told Andy MacPhail he didn’t want Sherrill on the Yankees. Of course, if Brian Cashman was willing [...]

Matt Cerrone adds to the talk about the Yankees and financial restraint citing conversations with individuals around the league who “cite pressure from investors to cut spending and start delivering a dividend for once”. The chickens have come home to roost. If the Yankees, who Frank Russo just told me, look to be sitting out [...]

Frank is hearing that Arizona and the Yankees are talking about pitching. A starter/reliever package from what he was told. Nothing as come to fruition and he is working on more details. Wouldn’t Chad Qualls look good in the eighth inning? Especially if Hughes, as Peter Abraham mentioned today, is being worked back into the [...]

Joel Sherman just tweeted an update to the point he made earlier today about the Yankees being restrained financially by ownership. Yanks asked KC to eat $ for Bannister. I continue to report Hal Steinbrenner has financial clamps this trade deadline. When is the last time you heard that? Remember what Frank Russo reported earlier, [...]

Has there been a gag order imposed by the Yankees? Everyone had been strangely silent. Cashman wants a starter and relief help and keeps getting asked for Joba and Hughes as starting points. Our main Yankees source down in Tampa feels that the Yankees are not going to do anything for two reasons. 1. No [...]

Frank Russo just called me and said that the Yankees “have locked down” and obtaining information has become quite a chore. If you remember, this is what happened (and I mentioned this earlier) when Mark Teixeira was signed this winter. Frank heard about Jarrod Washburn and confirmed what Jon Heyman reported: Seattle asked for Hughes [...]