Thursday, May 21, 2009

Could Jake Peavy be Headed to the White Sox?

12:05pm CST

According to ESPN News Services, Barry Axelrod the agent for Jake Peavy, doubts that Peavy is going to sign off on the proposed trade between the Padres and White Sox.

Axelrod apparently talked to ESPN's Jerry Crasnick and told him that Peavy has a "strong preference" to stay in the National League.

Sounds like this deal is slowly dying. Stay tuned....

11:10am CST

Yahoo Sports' Gordon Edes has an update on this story. The White Sox are set to send four pitching prospects to San Diego, two of which are their top pitching prospects. Here are the names coming back. However, Jake Peavy has still not ok'd the trade, so this is just a rumor until he does.

Aaron Poreda *
Clayton Richard *
Tyler Flowers
Jordan Danks

* - top White Sox pitching prospects

10:23am CST

Padres' beat writer Corey Brock has an update on a few players possibly coming back from Chicago.

10:10am CST

Jon Heyman of SI.com says the two sides have agreed to a deal but they are awaiting approval from Jake Peavy himself.

Stay tuned....

8:47am CST
According to Corey Brock of MLB.com, there apparently is a potential deal being discussed between the San Diego Padres and, no not the Chicago Cubs, but the Chicago White Sox.

There's no indication what players would be coming back from the White Sox, but there are a few stumbling blocks that could bring this deal to a screatching halt. First, Peavy has a no-trade clause in his contact which means he gets to decide where he goes and second, Peavy has made it clear that he wants to stay in San Diego or at the least in the National League.

Keep an eye on this story, because if this deal is in the works it comes at a very interesting time especially with San Diego in the middle of a five game win streak.

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