FOX Sports’ MLB offseason blog says “a number of teams have shown interest in Angel Pagan,” but that “he isn’t close to being dealt.”

So, you know, who knows what that means? If I were running a Major League team, I’d show interest in Angel Pagan too. He had a very solid year, plays a good center field, and doesn’t appear to be in the mix for a starting job with the Mets next season.

What the report does say with certainty is that a source “insisted” the Mets don’t want Jose Guillen.

Phew.

That rumor, of course, came indirectly from Adam Rubin, who was careful to avoid saying that the Mets were interested in trading Pagan for Guillen. Instead he wrote that the Mets want a power bat for left field (duh), the Royals want to trade Guillen (no s@#!) and they’d be interested in Pagan (me too).

He posted a blog update a week later to insist that his reporting was legit, which it almost certainly was, since he didn’t really say anything groundbreaking. He added then, citing one of his favorite Dominican newspapers, that Guillen would approve a trade to the Mets.

Rubin didn’t link to the Diario Libre‘s website, and unless the article was about Taco Bell menu items or asking how to get to the library, I wouldn’t be able to read it anyway. But I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that Guillen himself was reacting to the very rumors that were first printed in the Daily News.

And the wheels go round and round.