28
2009
Chris Carter To The Mets….Not So Fast
An article by Former Writers
The word around baseball is that Chris Carter, whom the Mets were allegedly going to receive as the player-to-be-named-later in the Billy Wagner trade has been designated for assignment. This is significant because if you can recall, Carter was previously placed on waivers over the summer with the intent of shipping him to the Mets.
However, the Yankees claimed him in an effort to cause roster management issues for the division-rival Red Sox. Being that this is the second time, the Red Sox only have two options.
They can either release him, which would make him a free agent or they can put him on waivers.
If the Red Sox took the first route then the Mets would have just as good of a chance of acquiring him as the other 28 MLB teams, potentially vying for his services.
If Sox were to take the latter route, which involves placing Carter on waivers. The Mets would have to wait for every team in the American League, as well as National League teams with a worse record then theirs to pass on a waiver claim.
Either way there is no guarantee that the Mets will be able to get him.
This seems to indicate one of two things to me. Either Carter was never actually involved in this trade or Omar Minaya made yet another roster management blunder. More details regarding the situation should be made available within the coming days.
To be honest, while I do not endorse making poor trades, the truth of the matter is that this trade was done solely to shed Wagner’s remaining salary.
No offense intended to Carter, but the career minor leaguer is not all that great of a player and probably wouldn’t have fit into the Mets’ 2010 plans anyways. However, it certainly wouldn’t have hurt such a depleted organization to have some depth at the Triple-A level.
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Ywt another Omar blunder in my opinion.
The Chris Carter episode was a complete farce. The only thing the Mets were interested in was dumping Wags salary to put $3.5 mil in the Wilpons pocket. This francise is all about bringing the bacon home to the owners and nothing about winning baseball games.
Use your heads people, especially you, Phil. The season is over on Sunday. He can be traded to the Mets thereafter before the 10 day DFA period ends. Waivers are unnecessary. Expect Carter to be traded to Mets by Monday.
Furthermore, Mets Assistant GM, John Ricco, handles the business end of trades and is point man for knowing all the intricate rules. Screw-ups in this area would be his responsibility even though Omar ultimately takes the hit.
Apparently there is some confusion going around regarding Carter. http://nybaseballdigest.com/?p=16297 is also covering the story. There are rumors going around that the Mets received a couple of young pitchers already, which may indicate that Carter was never involved in the trade, like I had mentioned in my post.
In terms of the DFA period, the rule is somewhat in a gray area. However, from what I have researched, it appears that you may in fact be correct on that one.
Either way I think we can both agree that this is certainly one of the more bizarre moves by the Mets.
Good call, http://www.bostonherald.com/blogs/sports/red_sox/index.php/2009/09/28/carter-can-still-be-traded/ backs up what you said.
Now the question that remains is whether or not Carter is in the deal to the Mets, especially with them getting those other pitchers in the GCL?
Trust me when I tell you there is no bigger Omar hater than myself. I put him right up there with Isiah Thomas as a complete con man / idiot.
But this trade was NOT Omar. This was the Wilpons dumping Wagners entire 3.5 mill salary. Anybody still want to argue the Wilpons aren’t having financial problems? Not many people can afford to take a 700 million dollar loss.
The bottom line is, until Fred and Jeff sell, and they will sell, this team is hopeless. They have no money to spend and are so broke they can’t even afford to fire their inept GM and Manager. I’ve just become indifferent at this point.
Nosh, I agree completely with your conclusions. The unfortunate reality is that the Mets front office, Jerry, and most of the coaching staff needs to be replaced, but the owners can’t afford to do it. I believe the Wilpon’s will sell out to withdraw the capital that remains and all the denials are a smoke screen. They want to sell without creating a fire sale mentality, thus the denials.
If we all had to defend Omar on one trade, this was the one. This came from management. Omar had nothing to deal with. If the Mets picked up the salary for Wagner and we got garbage, I can see us killing Omar once more. But Boston HAD to inherit the contract meaning you will get little in return.
Can’t fault Omar for this one. Management told them to sell off Wagner and he did it. If anything, he did EXACTLY what the boss wanted. Nosh, you are right on the money and I hope some give Omar a break for the Wagner deal as it was obvious this was not his doing. Wilpons wanted it and you can’t go against the boss especially when you are already in trouble for other stuff.
Phil, I would like to comment on your ridiculous speculation that the Mets could not use Carter on their roster and the even more erroneous statement that Carter is not all that great of a player. Carter has consistently performed with the talent of a true major leaguer. Being in the Red Sox organization has put him at an extreme disadvantage with their team of all-stars, especially at the positions Carter excels in (1B, OF, DH) (See Kevin Youkilis, Jason Bay, J.D. Drew, Jacoby Ellsbury and David Ortiz). His stats speak for themselves if you would take the time to look them up. On top of that, Carter has consistently been involved in trade talks for excellent players (see Oakland A’s offering Orlando Cabrera straight up for Carter…twice…the Red Sox rejected the offer…twice). If the Mets don’t get him, another team will be lucky enough to be adding to their roster an excellent ball player.
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