I spent most of yesterday on the road, so here’s a quick look back on what happened, and what’s developing today, with my comments where appropriate.
More and more sources, like this one, are beginning to suggest Oliver Perez will be a Met by this weekend, or he won’t be one in 2009. According to speculation, [...]
Mack’s Mets has a preview of Mets prospect Dillon Gee. Lee made 21 starts in St. Lucie last year, going 8-6 with 3.25 ERA and 1.05 WHIP. He struck out 94 and walked only 19 in 127.1 innings.
He was eventually promoted to AA Binghamton, and made four starts. He went 2-0 and gave up four [...]
Yesterday, Dave Cameron at Fan Graphs questioned the Diamondbacks decision to sign Jon Garland. He said that for a short term deal, Arizona should have just kept Randy Johnson.
Deciding that you want Jon Garland instead of Randy Johnson is a disastrous decision. Yes, Johnson is old, but he’s still an excellent major league pitcher. Garland [...]
SI reports that Omar Minaya has stated his interest in bringing back former Met Pedro Martinez. Pedro went 5-6 last year with a 5.61 ERA, and had trouble in the first in inning, and getting to the fifth.
TBD Spin
I commented earlier about the Mets spending their money on one-year deal type guys, and Pedro would certainly be [...]
A lot of news, features, and opinions out there today. Let’s get to them.
A deal with Oliver Perez seems to be imminent. NJ.com reports the two are still far apart, but the Mets are now willing to up their offer. I speculate the final numbers will be around four-years, $48 million.
One pitcher the Mets were [...]
Mets Geek looked at all the small things Omar Minaya has done this off-season to shore up the Mets bench, making the case that small amounts of money were wasted on a lot of players, equaling a lot of wasted money.
Tim Redding, Freddy Garcia, Alex Cora, and Cory Sulivan cost the Mets $6.35 million according to Cot’s [...]
Howard Megdal and Konstantin Medvedovsky wrote this piece in The Perpetual Post talking about the undervaluing/overvaluing of Adam Dunn. Dunn’s value has dropped to around $5 million a year, and maybe for just one year.
Here is what I think:
If the Mets knew Dunn was going to be available for so cheap, they should have bought out Carlos Delgado and [...]
Anthony Rieber at Newsday quotes a source saying the Mets are “a little closer” to signing Oliver Perez, while Jon Heyman says talks have slowed. Both sides are said to be weighing their options, which for the Mets means Ben Sheets, Randy Wolf, and Jon Garland.
Another team linked to Perez, the Brewers, are likely done [...]
ESPN’s Jerry Crasnick reports that Bobby Abreu has lowered his asking price to three years, $10-11 million, similar to Raul Ibanez and Milton Bradley.
Tim Dierkes at MLB Trade Rumors speculates that the Reds, Dodgers and Braves are interested in Abreu, but that price is still too high.
Abreu, who turns 35 in March, has driven in [...]
After the Mets signed Francisco Rodriguez and traded for J.J. Putz, every Mets fan was content. Some of that had to do with Aaron Heilman going to Seattle. Most of it was because the Mets ownership addressed a problem and fixed it convincingly, the same way they addressed the starting rotation last year.
The Mets have [...]
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