A baseball source within the Roy Oswalt camp tells ESPN that the Houston Astros right-hander plans to waive his no-trade clause and accept a trade to the Philadelphia Phillies. Sources also say that the Astros will pay some $11 million of the remaining $23 million that Oswalt is owed on his contract through 2011.
Oswalt was said to want the team he’s traded to to guarantee his $16 million club option bonus for 2012, but the Phillies supposedly balked at that before. It’s not known if anything was done there to rectify that situation.
The Astros would be getting pitcher JA Happ in addition to two prospects from the Phillies. I heard that Single-A 1B Jon Singleton was one of the prospects, but right now I’m not positive.
Stay tuned.
can i buy world series tixx now?
Happ, Gose and Villar
So we get Roy Oswalt and $11 million dollars and only have to give up those three players. (no singleton and no worley)
Houston….you just got fleeced.
I am sure glad that Houston Astros still has GM Ed Wade working for them…
Are you kidding me… I may have to revise my final NL Baseball Standings after this highway robbery