Ken Davidoff's baseball insider
Yankees, Mets, trade rumors, free agents, off-the-wall predictions and other MLB musings.
Mets trade deadline stuff: Roy Oswalt, Ted Lilly, Scott Downs
Regarding the Mets and Roy Oswalt: The Astros told the Mets (and presumably all teams) that they needed a "major-league piece" as part of the package for Oswalt. For public-relations purposes, they needed a name that at least some Houston fans would recognize.
J.A. Happ fit that qualification quite nicely, from the Phillies' perspective. Happ had name value because of his strong...
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