Did confusion cost Cubs Santana?

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Did the Cubs have a shot at getting Johan Santana a few months ago instead of rival National League contender New York? The two-time Cy Young Award winner said he would've considered waiving his no-trade clause for the Cubs, but the Twins never told him the Cubs called. Cubs officials won't comment publicly about Santana, but privately they said they called the Twins when general manager Bill Smith put Santana on the block last winter and were told Santana wouldn't waive his no-trade clause for any team that didn't train in Florida or play on the East Coast.

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April 22, 2008  06:49 AM ET

Sounds like a Mariotti article....or maybe Woody Page.

April 22, 2008  07:16 AM ET

Who cares?! They probably wouldn't have been able to get the deal done anyway.

April 22, 2008  08:15 AM ET

Not sure I'm buying this. How would the Twins benefit by keeping the Cubs out of the bidding war??

April 22, 2008  08:33 AM ET

im sure we could have gotten him for marshall, pie, and maybe anotherprospect since they just threw him away anyway, byt then we wouldnt have been able to get fukudome, and he helps us more

April 22, 2008  08:34 AM ET

Not sure I'm buying this. How would the Twins benefit by keeping the Cubs out of the bidding war?? METS4LIFE

If T&R were to respond to this question I think their answer would be: Thats an excellent question. Next question??

April 22, 2008  08:35 AM ET

Keeping the Cubs out does not make sense, I dont think anyone can answer that, not even the Twins.

April 22, 2008  08:44 AM ET

ah, miscommunication, their loss will be the mets gain.I think.

April 22, 2008  08:59 AM ET

This is total bs, he was going to a coastal city and that was that. Typical cubs article where they just rip on themselves. I'm sure Bartman was offered in the trade as well. Besides, so far so good on the Gomez kid.

April 22, 2008  09:12 AM ET

No and nobody believes this **** as well.Now go back and pretend you are professional and learn the basics of HOW TO.....

April 22, 2008  09:34 AM ET

Not sure I'm buying this. How would the Twins benefit by keeping the Cubs out of the bidding war??

METS4LIFE | 04/22/08, 08:15 AM
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Thats actually an excellent point. The Twins gain nothing by excluding a major market club willing to make a deal for Santana. The only thing better than having the Yankees, Sox, and Mets involved is having the Yankees, Sox, Mets and [insert major market club here]. Its a no brainer. Plus its the NL. Its not like they're the White Sox.

April 22, 2008  10:09 AM ET

Maybe they can trade him for Brian Giles or Coco Crisp- ohh wait, those trades never happened either!!!

April 22, 2008  10:47 AM ET

"Confusion" has cost the Cubs organization a lot more than Johan Santana.

And "confusion" has cost Cubs fans the ability to recognize that billy goats and Steve Bartman don't have anything to do with the Cubs' century-long futility.

April 22, 2008  11:40 AM ET

I love this story.

"Hey...I called you yesterday to see if you wanted to go to the mall."

"Really? My dad never gave me the message."

April 22, 2008  12:03 PM ET

good one Yankee

April 22, 2008  12:11 PM ET

Yeah, "confusion" cost the Cubs Johan Santana. Perhaps "idiocy" will cost them Brian Roberts.

April 22, 2008  12:11 PM ET

Thx, Tuna.

April 22, 2008  01:09 PM ET

I don't think Woody Paige had anything to do with this article Ironfinch. He is Denver Post. Nothing that Woody writes is serious anyway. Mariotti probably did write this one. He likes to think that he knows everything when he actually doesn't know his mouth from his ****hole. He probably takes the **** both of them.

April 22, 2008  02:17 PM ET

Can you imaging Fukudome playing in the dome? The irony

April 22, 2008  03:58 PM ET

Johan wanted to go to the Red Sox, Yankees or Mets and why would anyone want to piss off their current team and say yeah I would have considered being traded to the Cubs! I think the Twins would have gotten some better prospects from the Cubs though.

 
April 22, 2008  04:40 PM ET

Riddy: I think your referring to Brian Roberts, not Giles.

As for the trade, we can never get the deal done, what's happened has happened, nothing we can do now...

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