This transcription of the Sandy Adlerson press conference from Adam Rubin over at ESPNNY.
Do you have confirmation Jose is definitely leaving?
Alderson: “I’ve heard what you’ve heard. I have no way of verifying that independently. We’ll see whether those rumors turn out to be true. If they are true, I think that Jose at this point is beyond where we would have been.”
You had said you weren’t sure, but you thought you’d get opportunity to match. Did that happen?
Alderson: “I’ve had several conversations with Jose’s agents over the last 72 hours or so. So from that standpoint I think that they have known where we might have been and I have known where things have gone, or at least generally speaking where things might have gone beyond that.”
In the past two or three hours have you spoken with the Reyes’ agents, the Greenbergs?
“No. I haven’t. I haven’t talked to them since this morning.”
And this morning they didn’t give you an indication they were on the verge of something?
“There was an indication to me that things were moving. Exactly how far I didn’t ask. I didn’t need to.”
Did you convey to them you’re out?
“No, I haven’t conveyed to them we are out, but I think they do understand the parameters of where we might have been.”
Did you ever make an offer?
“No.”
Why?
“Well, we talked conceptually about all the elements of a contract. So I think there was an understanding on their part of what we were talking about in a complete contractual sense. But we did not make a formal offer.”
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Not even an offer…I have nothing to say