Today in Hot Stove language
Omar Minaya “is thought to have signified a willingness” to offer five years to Jason Bay.
A deal between the Red Sox and Padres for Adrian Gonzalez “is not close, and might not happen at all.”
The Cardinals are negotiating with Matt Holliday, and “one Cardinals person expressed faith it could get done.”
But “a baseball source familiar with the negotiations” for Holliday said he and agent Scott Boras “are still looking for something that they’re not finding.”
