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| 31st July, 2007 - 2:31 am | L.A. Times - With the clock ticking toward today's 1 p.m. PDT trade deadline, Dodgers General Manager Ned Colletti headed home Monday evening uncertain whether his team would be able to make a deal.
"We're not really close on anything right now," he said. "Nothing's imminent."
Which, given recent history, could be a good thing. Last July the Dodgers had little working the night before the deadline, only to swing a pair of huge deals the following morning.
"A year ago we went to sleep with nothing and then we woke up and had [Greg] Maddux and [Julio] Lugo by noon," Colletti said. And with Maddux winning six of nine decisions down the stretch, the Dodgers reached the playoffs for only the second time in 10 seasons.
It's unlikely Colletti will be able to swing as significant a trade this time. According to multiple sources the only deal the team had in the works Monday would send switch-hitting infielder Wilson Betemit to the New York Yankees for middle reliever Scott Proctor, who is 2-5 with a 3.81 earned-run average and four blown saves in 52 games. But with 156 2/3 innings over the last season and a half, the 30-year-old right-hander has thrown more innings than any reliever in baseball since the start of 2006. [READ] |
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