Blue Jays Willing To Trade Burnett
7th November, 2007 - 8:36 am
ESPN - Baseball's offseason trade market might have just gotten a little more interesting.

With the Toronto Blue Jays looking at the possibility of losing starting pitcher A.J. Burnett to an opt-out clause in his contract next winter, general manager J.P. Ricciardi told ESPN.com that the team is willing to entertain trade proposals from interested clubs this offseason.

"We like having A.J. here," Ricciardi said at the general managers' meetings in Florida. "He gives us a good opportunity to win in 2008, and that's our main objective right now.

"But we're open-minded," he continued. "If someone blew us away, we'd be foolish not to listen. If someone came to us tomorrow and said, 'We'll give you this, this and this for him,' we'd be foolish not to look at it." [READ]

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