Jake Peavy to White Sox

[killgod]

http://www.tsn.ca/mlb/story/?id=279451

[FirstTimer]

Damn. Beat me to it.

[killgod]

Damn. Beat me to it.

well maybe you should have thought twice about getting laid before you posted it.

:handkiss:

[zack54attack]

Wont go through.

Peavy wants to play in the NL.

http://espn.go.com/chicago/story?id=4191562

[ryne candy]

Wont go through.

Peavy wants to play in the NL.
http://espn.go.com/chicago/story?id=4191562

I was thinking ....wrong Chicago team....from all the rumors this offseason.

[FedEx227]

Any official word?? I was following it all morning but I'm at work now with basically any non-gaming site blocked.

[OKCL]

Jake Peavy(notes) is staying with the San Diego Padres.

The ace pitcher turned down a trade to the Chicago White Sox, choosing Thursday to remain with his longtime team.

The Padres and White Sox had reached an agreement, but needed the 2007 Cy Young Award winner to waive his no-trade clause.

“As of right now, this is the best place for us to be. We made that decision for the time being,” Peavy said before Thursday night’s game against San Francisco.

“It’s been a crazy 24 hours,” he said. “I don’t want to be any kind of distraction to the team. We’re playing as well as we possibly can, winning five in a row and I’ve got a big game tomorrow night vs. the Chicago Cubs.”

Peavy said he would answer additional questions about his decision after Friday night’s start.

Several hours before Peavy spoke, his agent, Barry Axelrod, said “my suspicion is he still has a strong preference to stay in the National League.”

“There was a question posed to us as to whether Jake’s position on going to the American League was still cast in stone or whether he’d consent to going to an AL team, specifically, the White Sox,” Axelrod said.

Peavy, who turns 28 later this month, is 3-5 with a 3.82 ERA. He made his major league debut with San Diego in 2002.

Peavy and his wife have three sons, all under the age of 8. The Padres talked to the Cubs and Atlanta Braves during the offseason about a deal for the pitcher.

Several reports said the White Sox would’ve sent top pitching prospect Aaron Poreda(notes) and young left-hander Clayton Richard(notes) to San Diego as part of the package for Peavy.

White Sox general manager Ken Williams declined comment earlier Thursday and did not immediately respond to a message after Peavy spoke.

While they were waiting for Peavy’s decision, the White Sox lost 20-1 to the Minnesota Twins.

Here's the article, i think he should have left San Diego.

[ZAN]

He wants to stay in the NL, and pretty much only wishes to waive to the other side of Chicago

[FedEx227]

Hahah... what a pussy. Great Jake keep praying the Cubs mysteriously discover some top prospects.

He'll more likely be a Dodger than a Cub. The Cubs, outside of Vitters, just don't have the pieces to acquire him.

[celtsxpatsxsox]

No trade clauses imo are the dumbest things to put into a contract.

[DJ Fog]

Wouldn't you think they'd ask him if he'd accept a trade to a team before trying to wheel and deal him?

[FedEx227]

That's kind of the nature of no-trade clauses though. It has to happen after the deal is pretty much set. You could probably ask "Hey do you want to go to the White Sox?" and get an answer but sometimes it's not so cut and dry so a lot of it depends on the players. Also, maybe they couldn't get in contact with him. It appears most of the talk of the trade happened while the teams were playing Wednesday so they probably ironed it out during the game and didn't get a chance to tell Peavy until after the game.

[FirstTimer]

Hahah... what a pussy. Great Jake keep praying the Cubs mysteriously discover some top prospects.

He'll more likely be a Dodger than a Cub. The Cubs, outside of Vitters, just don't have the pieces to acquire him.

What are you talking about? The Cubs did have the pieces to acquire him. What killed the deal was the Cubs unwillingness to part with Vitters. If the Cubs had been willing to give up Vitters Peavy would be a Cub right now. So we do have the pieces.

[FirstTimer]

Lol at White Sox giving up 20 runs today... somewhere Jake Peavy is laughing

Yeah, not exactly the best day to lay a 20 run egg. You have a guy debating on coming to your team and you go out and do that? Wow.

[Senser81]

That's kind of the nature of no-trade clauses though. It has to happen after the deal is pretty much set. You could probably ask "Hey do you want to go to the White Sox?" and get an answer but sometimes it's not so cut and dry so a lot of it depends on the players. Also, maybe they couldn't get in contact with him. It appears most of the talk of the trade happened while the teams were playing Wednesday so they probably ironed it out during the game and didn't get a chance to tell Peavy until after the game.

WTF are you talking about?