Manhattan Project wrote:moocow007 wrote:
If the Nets somehow manage to shed themselves of Bay and Santana (I would personally look to deal Wright before I deal Reyes) even if they sign Reyes to a $20 million per deal they can bring other big dollar guys on board. Not sure how different having Einhorn as the majority owner will do but just being in NY in a new stadium I think guarantees that the Mets aren't ever going to be the Pirates in terms of spend thriftiness.
What the Mets have done is made some really bad decisions with their money (under Minaya). Have to assume that Sandy Alderson would make better decisions. It looks like that step 1 is clear (get rid of big bad contracts that don't fit your future plans). Step 2 may actually be to then go out and sign some guys that can better fit the team. Can they compete with the Phillies? Probably not likely but that doesn't mean you don't try.
I think the only way you move Reyes is if you get the sense that he doesn't want to be a met or he throws out some outrageous new contract number that you simply aren't going to go near.
Along with what Pharm said, if your selling off players, don't do it half ass. I can't see a team dealing for Bay, considering he has had one good week over the past two years. I mean if you move Santana, why no blow it all up? All that does is make us lose our Ace and top pitcher.
Who really knows what the deal is with Einhorn and his ability to purchase the team in a few years. By us moving Rodriguez why would we go out and contend after that? Hell who is going to be our closer? Is it safe to assume that Parnell will step in nicely? Can Izzy recapture the old glory? Why not just keep Frankie? It's obvious we don't want his salary, that's only 18 Million.
Reyes is looking for a Crawford esque contract, lets face it he will get more. That's 22-24 million because A- He is a legit game changer. B- He is a great short stop. C- He plays much more of a value position.
You don't dump Frankie to resign Reyes, I think trying to use that logic just means your in denial.
The problem is you're really not selling off top notch (desirable) players (in Santana, Bay, KRod before he was dealt, etc). Other than Reyes and maybe Wright none of those other guys are going to help the Mets win anything so why would trying to get rid of them mean the Mets are going in any different direction than they are if they kept them????
KRod? He's not worth the trouble...not to mention the $17.5 million he'd be owed for next season. That's $17.5 million that can be better spent elsewhere.
Even if we assume that the Mets are looking to trim the salary it doesn't mean that they are going into the cheap business. They have a new freakin stadium that they need to freakin draw people to. They need players and they need some semblance of ability to win things in order to do that. Rebuilding (in the tear down and rebuild)? They're not going to do that.
I mean honestly...what useful young talent are they going to get for any of those guys not named Reyes or Wright? What rebuild are they going to muster going down that path? They aren't trading Kevin Garnett in his prime here.
What they can do is find if there are any teams out there (like the Brewers) who believe that they can make some noise buy adding the Mets big ticket guys, along with some cash, and take their salaries off the Mets hands so they can spend SOME OF the money elsewhere on better fits.
Now obviously finding suckers for Santana, Bay, etc. aren't easy but Santana and Bay hasn't done shite for the Mets to make so subtracting them (and their salaries) would likely actually make the Mets better.
And if they are going to deal Wright, see if you can deal him for a proven pitching help.
