Angels pull Beltre offer

[A.E]

UPDATE: The Angels pull their offer to Adrian Beltre, but leave the door open.
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UPDATE: The Los Angeles Times reports that the Angels have pulled their offer to Adrian Beltre off the table. They haven’t, however, closed the door completely on him, contrary to those earlier reports discussed below.

It sounds to me that they simply don’t want to be used by Scott Boras and have their offer shopped to a bunch of other teams. By making this public, anyone else interested know that Beltre does not have an outstanding offer.

1:57 PM: We’ve heard a few relatively weak rumors regarding Adrian Beltre in the past 24 hours or so. It’s been suggested that he’s shopping a five-year, $70 million offer from the Angels to other teams in the hope that someone tops it. It’s also been suggested that the Angels have “closed the door” on Beltre and are thinking of pulling the offer. Neither of those reports have a ton of weight behind them. People are just chattering to fill the vacuum, I think.

The latest: Victor Rojas hears that the stumbling block between Beltre and the Angels is a guaranteed sixth year.

Man, I’m not sure I’d want to go six years on Beltre. Or anyone, really. Although, yeah, that seems to be in fashion this month.

The bigger question, however, is what the heck the Angels do for offense if they don’t get Beltre?

-HBT

 

[Mexi]

tough spot for them. Boras is going to make them overpay because Beltre is the only big FA left, the Angels need a bat, and they proved that they have money by offering Crawford that contract

rofl