Report: Yankees acquire Johnson in three-team blockbuster

[andyfox]

Reports are the Diamondbacks are looking for another team to replace the Dodgers as the 3rd party to the deal. Vasquez apparently doesn't want to relocate in the west and would have demanded a trade after 2005; in order to nix the deal, supposedly he refused a physical. I didn't realize a traded player, who has no right of trade refusal, could do this.

[andyfox]

Yankees president Randy Levine had harsh words for the Dodgers after the deal's collapse. "The Dodgers reneged on the deal that was agreed to last Friday, unequivocally and with no contingencies except for a window for contract extensions and physicals," Levine said. "For some reason, the Dodgers over the weekend started to backpedal. Why they would break their word is only something they can answer. It sure is disappointing, and we'll have to think long and hard before ever doing business with the Dodgers again."

One would have assumed they would have thought long and hard after the Kevin Brown deal. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]