of the time, I would agree with Sandy on this. Moores shouldn’t be involved. We don’t need a Tom Hicks. I get that. But this is your guy. This is the guy that has carried the franchise mantle since Tony retired. To just outright deny Trevor this respect is short-sighted, in my opinion.

I’m not trying to keep railing my point home here, but this is one of those situations where Alderson has publicly made comments that make him look like an ass. “That’s simply not how we do things” is dismissive and condescending.

that Alderson “expects” to meet with Trevor now, after rescinding the offer, when perhaps a meeting with him before taking the offer off the table may have prevented this situation. But maybe that’s just not how they do things…

Hoffman and his agent played things horribly last time he was a free agent and vowed not to return to the Padres only to go back on their word and return. I wouldn’t put it past them if it happened again. I think the 4 million dollar offer is reasonable except I would have thrown a buyout on his option so he gets a little more guaranteed money without hurting this years team budget to much.

where the two suits write numbers on scraps of paper and slide them back and forth to each other across an expensive desk made of a rare imported Mediterranean stone. It may take a month, and we’re going to want to smack both of them, but in the end, they will shake hands.

I still think Trevor starts the ’09 season with the Friar.

Hoffy needs the Padres and the way things are turning out the Padres need Hoffy next season.

The Associated Press reports free-agent CL Trevor Hoffman (Padres) is upset with the way the San Diego Padres handled his situation, according to his agent, Rick Thurman. Hoffman was upset with the impersonal way that the team ended contract negotiations. “Trevor’s unhappy with the way they’ve dealt with the situation,” Thurman said. “I think if they didn’t want him back, they should have just said they want to go a different direction, go younger, or, ‘Listen, we’re going to cut payroll,’ and sit down and have a man-to-man, face-to-face talk with him. I think he deserves that respect. Any player deserves it, but this is Trevor Hoffman. He’s meant a lot to that organization.” Thurman said general manager Kevin Towers told him that there were unhappy people in the organization after the details of the team’s offer was reported in the media. Because of the way the situation ended, Thurman believes it is highly unlikely that Hoffman will return to the team in 2009.

Sounds to me like the Padres pulled back the offer because they thought the agent leaked the details to the media. I think it’s fair to say the Padres wouldn’t want to negotiate such a deal through the media, so maybe therein lies the conflict. That, and the Padres not giving any chat time to Trevor.