"The White Sox are close to acquiring Jake Peavy from the Padres, subject to the pitcher's approval of the deal, CBSSports.com has confirmed. The San Diego Union-Tribune first reported the possible deal in its Thursday editions, and baseball sources confirmed this morning that a trade is close. The sources said the deal would include several of the White Sox's top prospects (Sportsline)."
This could become a very big story, as the White Sox can hit, but their starting pitching is horrible. Peavy has the right to veto any trade, but at this point you would think he would just want to get out San Diego. Yes the city is real nice, but that team is horrible.
Until John Danks beat the Twins Wednesday night, White Sox starters other than Mark Buehrle were 0-8 this month, with a combined 8.11 ERA. That is flat out awful. If Peavy is able to come to Chicago it is an obvious upgrade over anything they have, but still I think Peavy is kind of overrated, and might struggle in the AL.
**UPDATE**
Two players believed to be in deal are left-handers Clayton Richard and Aaron Poreda, a first-round Draft pick in 2007. Richard is nothing special, but Poreda throws about 100 MPH and seems like he will be a front line starter in the future, so the Padres did well in this deal IF Peavy agrees to it. That is all that it is holding the deal up according to MLB.com.
**UPDATE 2**
Well apparently getting Peavy to sign off on this is going to be tough. "The agent for San Diego Padres pitcher Jake Peavy expressed doubt Thursday that his client is ready to sign off on a proposed trade to the Chicago White Sox. Agent Barry Axelrod told ESPN.com's Jerry Crasnick that Peavy has a "strong preference" to stay in the National League (ESPN)." I really can't blame him, and the White Sox losing by like 20 runs today really won't help anything...
**UPDATE 3**
Peavy blocked the trade. Glad I am not a White Sox fan.
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