Roy Oswalt would be open to restructuring contract

Roy Oswalt confirmed Friday that he would be willing to restructure his $16 million club option for 2012 given the right situation, according to Joe Strauss of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

“I’m going to find a way to get it done,” Oswalt told a gathering of Houston reporters. “I’m not going to go somewhere where it’s going to be bad for me. And I don’t want to put the Astros in a bad situation.”

“The money part I can work out with anybody, that’s not a big deal,” he said Friday. “We can work on doing different things as far as restructuring, whatever they want to do. That’s not a big deal.”

This is pretty easy to understand. If Oswalt gets traded, he wants to control his destiny, at least a little bit. Since he negotiated a no-trade clause in his contract, he has every right to do so. His preference is only part of the story, anyway. If the Cardinals are only offering Brendan Ryan and Jon Jay, this simply isn’t happening.