"We tried to deal for him at the winter meetings and couldn't get it done."
Results are to be announced during the 2012 winter meetings.
They will have to wait until next weekend's winter meetings to do so.
It was believed to be a first for the players' winter meetings.
No other team at the winter meetings, which begin tomorrow, will have anything like it.
He decided to stay until Tuesday, the last day of the winter meetings, and try to make at least one trade.
"Don't call me in the winter meetings, or a week before spring training," he was saying now.
"We're going to the winter meetings and making ourselves available."
Those deals were made during the winter meetings in 1989.
Why wait until the winter meetings, when all the other teams are there?
