That Peavy Guy

From Pete Caldera (The Record):

Free agency isn’t the Yankees’ only route toward restocking their starting rotation.

If the Padres are rebuilding, then unanimous 2007 NL Cy Young award winnner Jake Peavy might ask to relocate. And, in the right scenario, the 27-year-old right-hander could switch leagues.

“We’ve talked about it,” Peavy’s agent, Barry Axelrod, said by phone on Thursday. “His first choice, clearly, is to be on the Padres, and on a winning team with the Padres.”

But if San Diego decided it would be more beneficial to move Peavy in a blockbuster deal, or to free up salary, then Peavy would consider waiving his no-trade clause — depending upon the location.

In recent conversations with Peavy, Axelrod said there are “three teams in the AL that could entice him.”

Axelrod did not specifically mention the Yankees, but said, “Any kid, you’d imagine, always thinks about wearing the pinstripes some day. But it’d be a pretty significant move for him.”

Judging from his agent’s comments, I do think that Peavy currently considers the Yankees as one of the “3 AL teams”, although I’m sure that the Yankees would need to compensate him by guaranteeing his final contract years. Caldera notes that Peavy may look for a restructuring of his contract and only then would he accept a trade, however, part of his appeal is the relative cheapness of his current deal, so I don’t know if I would do that if I were the Yankees.

I wrote about Peavy a couple of days ago and that was pure speculation. Now, with Axelrod actually talking about the Yankees and seemingly open to a trade (with someone), we could continue to hear more about this as the offseason rolls along.