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The Mets paid a high price in prospects to land Santana, agreeing to send the Twins outfielder Carlos Gomez and pitchers Phil Humber, Deolis Guerra and Kevin Mulvey.

Wow. Score one for Los Mets.

Hope it's 100%.

Please be, we need him for now and for Citi Field.

Damn please lol. My homeboy just texted me and I was like stop lying, and then I saw the link on another forum. Please be trueeeee! I'm cautiously optimistic.

If this is legit, the Mets absolutely stole Santana from the Twins.

I dont know. man.... ESPN has said nothing.

RotoWorld's citing USA Today as well...

ESPN Radio NY is reporting on this on the Michael Kay SHow. Santana has 72 hrs to decline the trade which he most likely wont. THe Mets stole him from Minny.

No one else has reported this except USA Today and Roto, is everyone else waiting for a presser or something?

reported on ESPN, MSN as well.

The Mets also have 72 hrs to offer Santana a new contract. The deal is done but still a few things need to be ironed out.

If this happens which it most likely will happen this would be great for us. After Glavine left we badly needed a #1. Pedro is basically done, Duque is old, I wasn't that excited about Perez, Maine was good IMO. But with Sanatana on the Mets and if he is healthy I think we are the favorites to win the NL East. Im not really impressed with ATL and Phi, even though Philly did a good job last year coming back.

Were the Twins even a part of this deal or did they just say "Eh, just let us know who you're sending our way."

As (Please Use More Appropriate Word) as this looks in comparison to some of the other rumored offers, it's not the worst thing in the world to at least have Santana out of the AL.

Now sign the papers before Hank does something stupid, please.

This was an obvious attempt by the Twins to just get Santana out of the American League. There is no doubt in my mind the Red Sox and Yankees offered more for him.

HCYanks wrote:As (Please Use More Appropriate Word) as this looks in comparison to some of the other rumored offers, it's not the worst thing in the world to at least have Santana out of the AL.

Now sign the papers before Hank does something stupid, please.

You mean something stupid like acquiring Johan Santana?

Looks like robbery by the Mets to me. I'd take pretty much every offer I've heard floated out there over this one.

Santana
Pedro
Ollie
Maine
El Duque

That's pretty sick.

On another note, I can't believe Theo Epstein turned down a chance at a Beckett/Santana/Dice-K/Buchholz rotation for the next half decade because he was only willing to deal one of Ellsbury and Lester--who would've been the Red Sox 7th starter if they had acquired Johan. I like prospects as much as the next guy, but those two are far from can't miss stars (Ellsbury might be a can't miss good player, but I'll take the can't miss ace in Santana) and the Red Sox rotation would've been truly unbelievable. I think he made a mistake.

kobeSTOPkobeDONT wrote:Looks like robbery by the Mets to me. I'd take pretty much every offer I've heard floated out there over this one.

Santana
Pedro
Ollie
Maine
El Duque

That's pretty sick.

I'm still not convinced of the "sick"-ness of that rotation, but the bottom line is that the Mets biggest problem last year was getting too little innings from their starting rotation, and they just acquired somebody who is pretty much a guarentee to take you into the 7th and 8th inning every game. An ace in his prime to boot.

cmaff051 wrote:-= original quote snipped =-



You mean something stupid like acquiring Johan Santana?

Yes. That is exactly what I meant, Overlord of Reading Comprehension.

Nice deal for both sides, though. It's either this or lose Santana for two draft picks at the end of the year for the Twins. Mets give up some nice prospects and have to pony up over 100 million bucks for the best pitcher on the planet.