Omar on Zito Signing
“I could not recommend to our ownership crossing the barrier of five years,” Minaya said yesterday on a conference call. “Our final - first, really - offer was for five years. We were going to be aggressive on the AAV (average annual value), but we wouldn’t go seven years.”
“We’re not going to make a move for the sake of making a move,” Minaya said. But he also admitted, “I’m always going to be in the market to see if we can upgrade.”
“The key word is ‘impact,’” Minaya said on a conference call yesterday. “How many impact guys were out there in the (free agent) market this year? We have some very good, young prospects with what scouts call high ceilings. When you have those kinds of prospects, you have a chance to get impact guys (in a trade).”
“We’re still in December,” was the way he put it yesterday. “I just don’t believe championships are put together in December.”- New York Daily News