8
2009
Sheffield Out For The Season
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On Saturday, Jerry Manuel said that Gary Sheffield (back spasms) likely will not play again this season. It’s kind of strange when you consider that the Mets had an opportunity to get something in return for Sheffield on August 20th when he was claimed on waivers by the San Francisco Giants.
The Giants were in the market for a righthanded bat off the bench, a role that Sheffield could have certainly filled.
The Los Angeles Dodgers had just traded two minor league prospects to the Nationals for Ronnie Belliard who was only batting .246 with 6 HR and 24 RBIs. So you would have expected at least as much for Sheffield who was batting .280 with 10 HR and 40 RBIs.
Sheffield was upset when he learned that he could have finished the season playing for a contender and could have helped his chances to play one more season in 2010 with the added exposure.
Instead, the Mets chose to pull him off waivers. Since August 21st, Sheffield has started just two games and he is now finished for the season.
He is a Class B free agent, but the Mets will not get anything in return for him as they will not offer him arbitration.
What a comedy of errors…
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Went to my first Mets game, a Mayors Trophy game at Shea, in '73. We beat the Yankees 8-4 and I was hooked. I marched in two Banner Day parades, and before the Grand Slam single, there was the "Hendu Can Do" grand slam - I was there. I've collected Mets memorabilia all my life and started Mets Merized Online to feed my addiction.
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Another great move by our esteemed General Manager, boy he makes you proud to be a Met fan doesn’t he?
So we don’t get any draft picks for Wagner, we didn’t get any marginal players for Sheff who will now be sitting on his butt doing nothing for the next month and the Mets aren’t going to offer him arbitration and not get any picks, way to earn that contract Omar, so happy you will be back next year.
It’s sad that we have a ding dong like Omar to look forward to for the next 3 yrs. It’s hard to envision that we’ll have a decent team as long as he is here.
This is an absolute joke. For this move alone Minaya should be fired. How you can have a guy as old as Sheffield, have an opportunity to get prospects for him when your team is out of the race and not take advantage of that is ridiculous. Combine this with the Wagner thing and it’s just a mess. We’ve got to blow this thing up and start all over.