Santana Sweeps: Wednesday - Yankees Have No Money, Boston Interest Turning Cold

It appears that even the Yankees have a payroll ceiling - Brian Cashman pulled out of the Santana negotiations as he felt that the Yankees could not afford to load their payroll now that Pettitte had re-signed.

What had heated up last night now seems to have gone soft - Boston are still talking and shuffling their feet over the whole deal. They are STILL talking to the Twins and looking over their shoulder at the Yanks. It appears that some doubts still remain over going for the ace lefty.
The Twins are also turning out to be quite a player - they insist they do not necessarily want to trade Santana, and are spinning the roundtable again by re-opening invitations to other teams. The Mets are one of them and suddenly they appear to have pushed their way into the reckoning according to Santana's agent Peter Greenberg.

There was also an earlier rumor that a three-team trade was on the cards with Santana going to the Mets, Haren to the Twins and Jose Reyes to A's. But this has been quashed as a hoax but it was fun while it lasted. Good reporting if you ask me.