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At sportsnet.ca: Source tells @ShiDavidi still a chance Dickey deal could fall apart:

http://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/201...new_york_mets/

Talks between the Toronto Blue Jays and New York Mets over NL Cy Young Award winner R.A. Dickey were hanging in the balance Saturday, amid reports that the clubs were making steady progress toward a deal and that an exchange may be imminent.

Mike Puma of the New York Post reported that as of Saturday morning, the teams were kicking around a deal that would send Dickey, catcher Josh Thole and another piece to the Blue Jays for top prospects Travis d'Arnaud and Noah Syndergaard (who was part of the Oakland Athletics' ask for Gio Gonzalez last off-season), veteran catcher John Buck and another player.

The other players are significant in this case, as the Blue Jays are likely to want some sort of future piece back with Dickey bound for free agency after the 2013 season. They have long coveted reliever Bobby Parnell, who the Mets have long refused to even discuss, and many of the other pieces the Blue Jays might want off their roster (Jonathan Niese, Daniel Murphy, Ike Davis, Lucas Duda) are part of New York's future, which makes equalizing the value complicated.

Ken Rosenthal of FoxSports.com reported that the Blue Jays are unlikely to be granted a window to negotiate an extension with Dickey, and the right-hander with more years of control is worth more than him with just one. But it's possible that they have a sense of whether he'd sign or not, and the fact that he's reportedly seeking a two year extension at $26 million is surely part of the attraction, given where pitching prices are headed.