Paperwork to be sent to Selig after weekend By Barry M. Bloom, Mark Feinsand and Steve Gilbert / MLB.com The Yankees have agreed to send three players and cash to Arizona for Randy Jo hnson. (Stephen Dunn/Getty Images) The Yankees and Diamondbacks have agreed in principle on a three-for-one swap that will send 41-year-old Randy Johnson to the Bronx, sources close to the tr ade said Thursday. But Arizona's top official said the club was still working on details and that paperwork couldn't be forwarded to the Commissioner's offi ce until after the New Year's weekend. The Diamondbacks would get pitchers Javier Vazquez and Brad Halsey, along with catcher Dioner Navarro and $8.5 million to $9 million in cash, in exchange fo r Johnson, the five-time Cy Young winner who has been coveted by the Yankees f or since this past July's non-waiver trade deadline. "We're still working hard on this, but nothing will get done before Monday at the earliest," Ken Kendrick, the Diamondbacks' lead general partner, said. "We do have family responsibilities that we all need to attend to. Frankly, that' s important, too." The final language is still being ironed out, and the Diamondbacks will be res ponsible for sending on the paperwork to the Commissioner's office. At that po int Sandy Alderson, Major League Baseball's vice president of baseball operati ons, would review the documents before giving them to Commissioner Bud Selig, who is vacationing at his home in the Phoenix area during the holidays, for ap proval. Selig must approve the transaction because it includes a sizeable amount of ca sh. But a precedent was certainly set earlier this year, when the Yankees obta ined Alex Rodriguez from Texas. The Rangers agreed to pay $67 million on the r emainder of his original 10-year, $252 million deal, the highest in baseball h istory. Complete coverage > The payment made by the Yankees to Arizona would help defray the $10.5 million owed Vazquez for the 2005 season. The right-hander signed a four-year, $45 mi llion contract with the Yankees after a trade brought him to New York from Mon treal prior to this past season. Once Selig approves the deal, a 72-hour window will open for the Yankees to ne gotiate a contract extension with Johnson, who owns a no-trade clause in the r emaining year of his current deal, worth $16 million. In addition to the no-tr ade clause, Johnson, who signed as a free agent with Arizona in 1998, is prote cted by a clause in the Basic Agreement that keeps players with 10 years of ex perience -- the last five with the same team -- from being traded without thei r permission. If the Yanks and Johnson come to an agreement and the Big Unit waives his no-t rade clause, all four players would have to pass physicals before the trade co uld be officially announced. Johnson, who is first among Major League left-handers with 4,161 strikeouts, u nderwent surgery on his right knee during the 2002 season to remove the remain ing cartilage. Johnson has a substance injected into the knee to help absorb t he impact of his 6-foot, 10-inch frame landing on his right leg when he pitche s. The Yankees thought they had acquired Johnson two weeks ago as part of a three -team mega-deal with the Diamondbacks and Dodgers. But Los Angeles pulled out of the trade, sending New York and Arizona back to the drawing board. In that deal, the Diamondbacks would have received right-fielder Shawn Green and pitch er Brad Penny, players they still covet. Yankees president Randy Levine and Jeff Moorad, Arizona's CEO-elect, have been talking numerous times a day this week as they try to work out a trade before the end of the year, which was stipulated arbitrarily by Johnson and the Diam ondbacks as a deadline. This offseason, the Diamondbacks have already spent nearly $82.5 million, addi ng free agents Troy Glaus, Russ Ortiz, Royce Clayton and Craig Counsell. The $ 24 million saved on the Johnson deal -- the Big Unit's salary, plus the nearly $9 million of Vazquez's salary paid by the Yankees -- would allow the Diamond backs to further play the market. There has been speculation that Arizona could flip Vazquez and/or Navarro else where before the season -- possibly to Baltimore, Texas or the Dodgers -- and that Green could still come to the Diamondbacks. Meanwhile, the Yankees have already added free agent pitchers Carl Pavano and Jaret Wright, spending about $60 million in the process. Johnson would join th em in a New York rotation that also includes Mike Mussina and Kevin Brown. http://tinyurl.com/6n2tl -- http://www.wretch.twbbs.org/album/randycox 一本只有棒球的相簿 --

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