Brewmors Updates (10/20/08)

I updated the CC Sabathia and Jake Peavy Brewmors pages tonight. Click HERE for all the Brewmors.

And here are the updates:

• No secrets left between Rays and Red Sox - Buster Olney (10/19/08)

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Nothing said within the Yankees’ organizational meetings altered the team’s plan to make CC Sabathia an offer they hope he will not (and maybe cannot) refuse — an offer that might dwarf those of other clubs by a factor of 30 to 40 percent. Call it the New York surcharge, which probably will be necessary if Sabathia can be coaxed to pitch in the big city.

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• The top prizes of ‘08 - Tim Brown, Yahoo! Sports (10/19/08)

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Indeed, if Sabathia is willing, it is difficult to imagine him anywhere but in the Bronx. The Yankees are desperate for him and almost certainly will top the six-year, $137.5 million contract Santana received across town last offseason. TheMilwaukee Brewers will take their shot. So will everyone else with a financial pulse and a void near the top of their rotation, organizations such as the Dodgers, Los Angeles Angels, Chicago Cubs, Texas Rangers, Chicago White Soxand Boston Red Sox.

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• Melvin says of plan to try to keep Sabathia: ‘At least we have a chance’ - Buster Olney, ESPN (10/18/08)

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“At least we have a chance,” Melvin said in a conference call with reporters, “whereas before, we wouldn’t have any chance with a pitcher of CC’s caliber. I do feel we will make him an offer, and at that point, it will be in his court.”

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• A fine mess in Philadelphia - Nick Cafardo, Boston Globe (10/19/08)

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The Braves are pushing hard to land San Diego ace Jake Peavy (Atlanta shortstop Yunel Escobar would have to be included in a deal), but if you’re looking for a sleeper for Peavy, a few people are keeping their eye on Milwaukee, which will likely lose CC Sabathia, and possibly the oft-injured Ben Sheets.Milwaukee makes sense, considering the Padres want a shortstop and the Brewers would move J.J. Hardy in the right situation.

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• Contract may force Padres to deal Peavy - Tim Sullivan, San Diego Union-Tribune (10/19/08)

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Both Jim Callis, the erudite executive editor ofBaseball America, andHardball Times essayist Victor Wang think the National League team best positioned to move on Peavy might be the Milwaukee Brewers. The Brewers, alas, are not high on Peavy’s list.

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• Handicapping the Jake Peavy Trade Market - Ken Rosenthal, Fox Sports (10/19/08)

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Brewers. Their fear would be that Peavy could turn into another Ben Sheets, suffering frequent injuries while earning $48 million from 2010 to ‘12. A Rickie Weeks-J.J. Hardy offer would snap the Padres to attention — look ma, a new middle infield! — but the Brewers are not going to part with their best young pitchers, righty Yovani Gallardo and lefty Manny Parra.

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• Sources: Pads gauging interest in Peavy, whose contract runs through 2013 - Buster Olney, ESPN (10/17/08)

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The Padres are seeking at least two young pitchers in return, along with someone who can become the team’s everyday center fielder sometime in the immediate to near future.

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