Another day passed here at the MLB winter meetings with incremental progress on the Albert Pujos front. The Miami Marlins and St. Louis Cardinals have offers on the table.
The Marlins are in at 10 years and at least $200 million. The particulars of the Cardinals’ counter are unknown, but it is believed to be competitive with the Marlins. The Chicago Cubs, according to a New York Post report, had also joined the fray, the mystery suitor other reporters had made reference to earlier in the day.
Marlins officials met with MLB representatives for about 10 minutes Tuesday night to go over the finer details of their proposal. There could be no holdups now.
The rest consisted of the teams meeting with Pujols’ agent, Dan Lozano, followed by grim-faced Marlins executives traipsing back to their suite.
“Nothing to report,” club president David Samson said mid-evening, after perhaps the last of Tuesday’s in-person meetings. “There really is nothing to report.”
Trailing behind, Miami’s president of baseball operations Larry Beinfest was asked if he believed there was a time element to the standing offers.
He rolled his eyes in apparent disgust and turned away.
These are the faces and postures of the new Marlins, apparently still holding the same dismissive attitudes of the old Marlins.
Courtesy of YahooSports.
