Mike Adams is making $8.50 an hour, he's under contract for 2012, and he might be the best reliever in baseball. So it makes sense that the San Diego Padres aren't just going to give him away for a stack of National Geographics. According to a source who talked with Yahoo!'s Jeff Passan, the Padres don't want to trade him at all:
MLB Trade Rumors: Mike Adams Has, Hasn’t Been Told He Won’t Be Traded
Certainly a team could come with a blowaway offer, but Padres owner Jeff Moorad last week personally told Adams “you’re not going anywhere,” according to a team source.That must be comforting for Adams. Except according to Marty Caswell of XX1090 Sports Radio, it’s news to Adams that he won’t be traded:
Contrary to a report by Yahoo Sports, Mike Adams says he has NOT been told by Padres owner Jeff Moorad that he won’t be tradedAwkward. The next update will be on how Moorad either:
- totally sent Adams a text, but he must not have got it
- tried to respond to a DM on Twitter, but because Adams doesn’t follow Moorad, he couldn’t
- told one of the 52 other faceless goofs in the Padres bullpen with an ERA under 0.31 that he wasn’t going to be traded, and got confused because he thought it was Adams
Considering that the first report said that the Padres were still leaving the unless-there’s-a-blowaway-offer door open, there’s still a pretty good chance that Adams will be traded before the trade deadline.
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