Re: [新聞] Hot Stove: Matsuzaka talks stalling

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AP的消息:
MLB表示即使西武同意降低紅襪給付的金額 MLB也不允許這事情發生
Bora$說他要先談Drew的deal 談完在來談松版的



Red Sox Can't Reduce Bid for Matsuzaka
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 9:25 p.m. ET

BOSTON (AP) -- The Boston Red Sox cannot reduce their $51.1 million bid
for Daisuke Matsuzaka in order to sign him, even if his Japanese team
agrees to take less, baseball officials said Tuesday.

''There are no side deals in the situation,'' said Jimmie Lee Solomon,
executive vice president of baseball operations in the commissioner's
office. ''Everybody's been assured that's not allowed, and everybody's
been made aware of the rules.''

A Red Sox official said the team is not trying to reduce the bid, called
a posting fee, which was by far the highest in baseball history. The
official spoke on the condition of anonymity because the team is not
commenting publicly on the negotiations.

Solomon said the posting process was clear to all teams before it started.
There has been no complaint about Boston's handling of the matter, and
no reason to believe the Red Sox are not following the rules, he said.

''There were some reports that we heard, but those reports proved to be
not true,'' he said.

Boston bid $51.1 million for the right to negotiate with Matsuzaka,
the MVP of the World Baseball Classic in March. The team has until
the end of Dec. 14 to sign him or he would return to the Seibu Lions
for another season before he could be posted again.

If so, the Red Sox would keep their money. Reports from Japan, where
Red Sox president Larry Lucchino went to negotiate a long-term ''working
relationship'' with Seibu, centered on the possibility that the Lions
would pitch in for Matsuzaka's contract to make the deal happen.

''That would not be allowed,'' Solomon said. ''The deal is that the
Red Sox are to pay the Lions the posting fee. They are to negotiate
(Matsuzaka's contract) free from any other negotiations that might be
going on.''

Lucchino said in Japan that the Red Sox have sent a fair and
comprehensive offer to Matsuzaka's agent, Scott Boras, as a follow-up
to the record-setting bid.

''(It's) obviously a historical number but we are talking about a
national living treasure and an exceptional baseball player,''
Lucchino said. ''We know it's been his dream to play in the major leagues
and we are proud that he will live out his dream in Boston with
the Boston Red Sox.''

Boras declined to comment on the negotiations. But the agent was
slightly more forthcoming on talks about free-agent outfielder J.D. Drew,
whom the Red Sox have also expressed an interest in.

''We'll probably have a decision on J.D. during the winter meetings''
that start Monday in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., he said.

Signing Drew would give the Red Sox an opportunity to complete the
long-attempted trade of productive but enigmatic outfielder Manny Ramirez.
Although general manager Theo Epstein has tried each year to unload
the slugger, it would be easier now that there are just two years and
about $36 million left on the $160 million, eight-year contract
he signed with previous GM Dan Duquette.

Ramirez's deal also has two team option years at $20 million apiece,
and he might ask teams to exercise the options in order for him to
waive his no-trade rights. Even at four years and $76 million,
Ramirez's money is not that much more than Alfonso Soriano will
average in the eight-year, $136 million deal he just agreed to
with the Chicago Cubs.

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