Yahoo's Gordon Edes offers some updates on the latest Roy Halladay rumors. He mentions that Clayton Kershaw remains untouchable, despite his name popping up daily. He also goes on to mention that the Dodgers have had internal discussions about the possibility of moving Chad Billingsley. Billingsley is by far the biggest name mentioned in the trade rumors forHalladay. Call me crazy but if Ned Colletti makes a deal involving Chad Billingsley, I will never forgive him. Edes did say that it was purely internal discussions. Here is my take on this, one of two things is going on here. The first is the report ofBillingsley being traded is purely absurd, false, and ridiculous, so with all that we can all sleep well knowing Bills isn't going anywhere. The other is this is some type of ploy to drive up the price even more for Halladay, if you can believe that. Either way rest assured unless Colletti wants to hang himself he won't deal Billingsley. Kershaw is a stretch just him alone, let's hope Collettti doesn't screw this up. This thing makes no sense under any circumstances. We are the best team in baseball,someone explain why we need to trade Billingsley or Kershaw for Halladay. What exactly is that accomplishing?
With Halladay's probability of being traded decreasing by the hour, it seems the rumors are still picking up some momentum. Halladay made it very clear if he were to be traded, the deal would have to get done today. With no deal apparently close it seems Halladay may be staying put.