All this Santana talk is making my brain hurt

The Santana trade rumors have been building over the last week, but they are now officially out of control. Conflicting reports abound, and it’s becoming increasingly difficult to get a read on the negotiations. For instance:

According to John Perrotto, it’s unlikely that any deal will be made for Santana during the winter meetings, but he’ll probably be moved before spring training.

However, Peter Gammons thinks the Twins won’t trade Santana at all.

The Boston Globe reports that the Twins aren’t happy with the offers from the Yankees or Red Sox, and are reaching out to other teams including the Mets, Dodgers and Mariners.

The Mets are interested but they don’t want to trade Reyes and may not have enough ammunition without him to make a deal.

And these are just the updates from the last couple hours.

Yesterday saw Jayson Stark report that the Angels were interested.

Shorty after, Tony Reagins said there was no truth to that rumor.

Then the Twins said they wanted to get the deal done with Boston by the end of the day. I woke up this morning fully expecting to find big news.

Trying to keep all this straight is harder than coming up with 10 reasons why Britney Spears is a great human being.

There is only one thing that can be said with absolute certainty:

Theo has really done a great job of putting the Red Sox in the ideal position.

His offer is respectable and firm, but without any sense of desperation, and so far he has refrained from giving the Twins any sort of deadline. He will have to give them one at some point though, since he still needs to move Crisp or Ellsbury. But for now it appears that he’s willing to be patient.

I think the Twins are still hot on the Sox’ offer, but with the Yankees out they need more teams involved to keep the pressure on.

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