Vernon Wells available?????

Jon Heyman has heard that the Blue Jays "have fielded a few trade inquiries" about Vernon Wells, though they are not shopping him. Wells has six years and over $100MM remaining on his contract.

Because of the Jays' financial constraints, they could consider trading Wells or closer B.J. Ryan for the right package. Trading the center fielder would likely take a lot of creativity on the part of Jays GM J.P. Ricciardi given the amount the club owes Wells. [Note by MLBTraderumors.com ]

Check out this contract for Wells, per Cot's contracts 

7 years/$126M (2008-14)

• signed extension with Toronto 12/06
• $25.5M signing bonus (paid in 3 $8.5M installments, March 1 2008-10)

08:$0.5M, 09:$1.5M, 10:$12.5M, 11:$23M, 12:$21M, 13:$21M, 14:$21M

That is probably the most back-loaded contract I have ever seen.  Wells has a career 0.283/.332/.480 with a 0.300/.343/.496 last year.  He is also a 3xGG CF and 2xAS.  He will be 30 years old this year, so that's 36 at the end of this contract.  The Jays would have to pick up a whole lot of that contract for that to be feasible for us, but he fits the bill of a RH power bat. 

With Drew Stubbs on his way up to take over CF hopefully the end of next year, I prefer to go with a cheaper RF power bat to fit our need.

My best case scenarios are as follows

1.  Dye

2.  Burrell - 1 or 2 year deal

3.  Trade everyone for The Great Pujols

Something tells me I may be very disappointed our RH power next year.