Orange County Register

Mark Teixeira won’t be an Angel in 2009. And it seems more and more likely Manny Ramirez won’t be playing in Southern California next season unless it’s as a visiting player.
The free-agent outfielder, who has seemingly  just been waiting for fellow Scott Boras client Teixeira to pick which team is going to pay him, has his eyes on New York.
The New York Daily News reports that Ramirez has told friends he expects to get a three-year offer from the Yankees.
Impacto Deportivo takes it one step further, reporting Ramirez has a three-year, $75 million offer in hand with an announcement of his signing with the Yankees expected shortly.
As mlbtraderumors.com documents, the Dominican Republic newspaper has a pretty decent track record when it comes to breaking recent big signings.
Yankees GM Brian Cashman shot down the Impacto Deportivo story early Monday in a text message that stated: “Not true.”
The Dodgers made Ramirez a two-year, $45 million offer early in the process and since have allegedly been waiting for Boras to make the next move.
Angels manager Mike Scioscia said all the right things about Ramirez last week, but GM Tony Reagins said there was only a slim chance of the Angels obtaining him. I for one don’t think the Teixeira situation changes that scenario.
The Angels are already paying three starting outfielders hefty salaries — Torii Hunter, Vladimir Guerrero, Gary Matthews Jr. — with Guerrero likely to be an almost-fulltime DH. And recently re-signed Juan Rivera isn’t going to be paid $4 million to be a fourth outfielder, backup DH and/or platoon first baseman with Kendry Morales (who’s a switch-hitter, anyway). But that’s what a Manny signing by the Angels would produce.

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