According to Nightengale they were willing to trade "Gordon Beckham and prospects" for Gonzalez, but the Padres preferred the Red Sox’s all-prospect offer featuring Casey Kelly, Anthony Rizzo, and Reymond Fuentes.
The Padres will pay Gonzalez a bargain-basement $4.75 million for 2010 and have another reasonable club option for $5.5 million in 2011. Should the Padres' young pitching pan out, he could be an affordable key piece on a NL West-winning team.
The following is from an mlb.com article on Adrian Gonzalez. I've got something strange and superstitious for jersey numbers, so I got all hot and bothered when I saw this. A lot of the...