Manny Delcarmen's agent, Jim Masteralexis, was told by Red Sox officials that the Nationals approached Boston about a trade that would send reliever Manny Delcarmen to Washington in exchange for first baseman Nick Johnson. Masteralexis was told by the Sox that the trade proposal was "immediately shot down."
The idea of a Delcarmen-for-Johnson exchange was first reported by Peter Gammons on an interview on ESPN's Mike & Mike In the Morning Show.
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