Marlins Loria wining and dining Jose Reyes all for show-Bill Madden
11/12/11, Bill Madden, "In the week leading up to the GM/owners meetings, Miami Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria put on quite a show, wining and dining Jose Reyes in South Beach, making very public overtures to Albert Pujols and Mark Buehrle and reportedly leading a contingent to the Dominican Republic to personally scout Cuban defector Yoenis Cespedes, who is acclaimed to be a five-tool center fielder. But according to most baseball insiders, that’s all it was — show. Even with the expected huge bump in revenue from their new stadium in Miami’s Little Havana section, baseball officials are skeptical that Loria has the money to be a big player in the free-agent market. If he is able to sign Reyes, it will be mean having to move Hanley Ramirez, who last week made it fairly clear he has no intention of moving off shortstop, and who is owed another $46 million through 2014. There is no way Loria could afford the minimum eight years/$200 million Pujols is going to get, while those close to Buehrle, a St. Charles, Mo., native, believe his desire is to finish his career with a team in the Midwest. As for Cespedes, the word around the industry is that his agent Adam Katz, is looking for a record signing package
- between $30 million-$40 million, which is too rich for even the Yankees....
- bought the team from John McMullen in 1992 for $117 million.
- toward giving the O’s instant credibility with their disillusioned fans.
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