Per Berkman himself, in an article from the Houston Chronicle.
+ posts“There’s been a lot of interest — Cardinals, Cubs, Rockies, A’s, Pirates, Blue Jays, a bunch of teams. I haven’t had a single offer in terms of X amount of dollars, but I think this is the time of the year when there’s a lot of tire-kicking.”
Aki, a fat, chain smoking, disaster.
He is one of the few people I didn’t write a bio for on his bday, refused to relive his time here. Wanted to skip some others like Eric Hinske and Oliver Perez, but I wrote them anyway. Not for Aki…I mentioned it and said something to the effect that “we don’t need to relive that disaster”