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Chris Young Says He’s Not Close On Anything With Mets
An article by Hojo's Mojo
According to Jim Baumbach via Twitter,
Chris Young, who is his own agent, told San Diego Union-Tribune the Mets are one of the teams he’s spoken to but he’s not close on anything.
Update 11:00 PM
Though both sides are talking, several sources including Steve Popper and Andy Martino are reporting that “nothing was close at this time” between the parties.
So while something could eventually get done, nothing is imminent at this time.
Original Post 7:30 PM
According to Buster Olney of ESPN, the Mets are very close to signing RHP Chris Young.
Of course, this would be the first significant signing for Sandy Alderson since being named as the new Mets GM.
Young has had some health issues with his shoulder in 2010 and only appeared in four games last season, and just made 36 starts in the last three seasons.
He did end the season healthy after making his last three starts and going 2-0 with a 0.90 ERA in 20 innings pitched. He allowed just 10 hits but walked 11 and struck out 15.
The 31-year old had a fine season in 2007 when he went 9-8 with a 3.12 ERA in 30 starts for the Padres. If he can stay healthy, he could be a nice fit for the Mets rotation. As a flyball pitcher, Citi Field would be to his liking.
Young has a career 3.80 ERA and a 1.20 WHIP with a 48-34 won-loss record.
No terms were released as of yet, but he could get something in the vicinity of $3MM to $4MM dollars on a one year deal with a team option.
For a complete bio on Chris Young, check out Adam Rubin’s post on ESPN New York.
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i love it. if hes healthy and its an incentive laden move, it could be a great pick up.
Like you said, if its incentive laden move, its great. $3 or $4 million isn’t all that much for the potential of a very positive move and an option or second year would allow the team to capitalize on the gamble. The guy has been injured and maybe a change of scenery is what this guy needs.
Ah yes 3 or 4 million isn’t that much, which would be true except this is the team and fan base that is celebrating saving the same amount on their most consistent releiver for the last several years. So which way do you want it? Oh, I see you want it each and every way!
We all know this guy can pitch, what we’ll soon find out is if he can stay healthy. I hope this doesnt end up being another Freddy Garcia type situation.
I think pretty much any signing is going to come with a gamble attached to it. Young really lost his way after getting hit in the face by a batted ball.
I think he’s worth a shot though to be honest.
When I looked over the available starters, Young was on my list of who I’d like to see the Mets go after so I’m pleased with this
Years ago, the Indians had a kid pitcher from Long Island who was a projected Hall of Famer. He was that good. His name is Herb Score.
In 1957, a Gil MacDougall liner smashed Score’s face, breaking a lot of bones. Score was never the same. Herb Score died just a couple of years ago.
Des, earlier this evening, probably as you wrote that, Gil McDougald himself passed away. Too bad.
So sorry to read that.
But to tell the truth, Herb Score came from a neighborhood a couple of miles from where I grew up until age 9. My older brother played with Herb as an early teenager.
I always felt sorry in later years for Herb and kind of resented Gil. Irrational as it might have been, it was hard to rid myself of it.
I agree with the fact that this is sortof a gamble based off his injury-plaqued past. But, if he can stay healthy for the Mets, i think this would be a good deal.
Definetly worth taking a risk over. I can see a 1 yr 2 million deal possible with incentives.
I wouldn’t be against it, but he won’t ever be the 200+ IP guy we need, but anything will help right now, and for about 3mil per for a starter, I would jump….That Garland deal still makes me ill though
I love this move. This is a guy I wanted the Mets to target coming into the offseason. If he’s at 100%, he’ll make a solid #2. I hope the Mets are keeping an eye on Brandon Webb. He’s another guy that would be a nice pickup if that shoulder is 100%.
Very smart!!!!
But he’s one of those strange looking pitching motion weird guys.
He pitches funny. And he’s too tall.
Not a bad conservative first move. Now start exploring Garza. A few major league ready ballplayers will get that done. T. Bay wants a young pitcher or 2 and an infielder.
After Lee drops somewhere, (Yukees), it will get hot and heavy.
Offer Tampa Bay Mejia and Ruben Tejada for Garza. They’ll probably bite. Garza would easily win 15 games in the NL this year.
You guys loving this move are all in a delusional state. This is excatly the move that Omar tried over and over and got panned for. If it sucked when omar did it it sucks when Alderson does it. If this is what you want from the Met front office start demanding they re-hire Omar and dump this high paid dude. Now we can go for garbage dump guys without the high priced signs to go along with them. And you all love it. Did you love Escobar????? did you love Lima????? Did you love Garcia???? But you love Young.!!!!!
The difference is giving Chris Young $2-3M per year, versus giving Ben Sheets $10M a year. Young proved he could pitch at the MLB level last September after surgery; Sheets proved that he could play catch in December.
Young also has a much better peripheral track record than the other guys you mentioned.
Comparing Young to Escobar, Lima and Garcia misses the point. Those guys you mentioned were washed up — not necessarily so with Young. If it’s an incentivized contract, why not? My only caution is that not too much should be guaranteed. Sandy will do right by the Mets.
Smartest post of the day on this subject. Yeah let’s go after an injury prone pitcher, can anyone say Carl Pavanno. Sneezes and goes on the disabled list. We are coming too late in the game due to the delay of getting a GM and manager. This is why I always said that Omar should have been gone in July along with Jerry when they collapsed after the all star break and the Wilpons knew they weren’t coming back, and then we would of had a new team in place at the end of the season. Now we missed out on talen we may have had a shot at. Our only salvation will be trades at the winter meetings, if I was Reyes I would not sign a long term lease on an apartment in the Big Apple.
Yeah, you’re right Lou. Look at all of the excellent pitchers who were taken off the market while the Mets twiddled their thumbs!
(crickets chirping)
“Now we missed out on talent that we may have had a shot at.”
Again…exactly WHAT available players have the Mets missed out on in the past month?
And if you give us “Javier Vazquez”, then you should probably take a break from posting for a while.
Ted Lilly for one. Just signed with LA.
Young pitched great in September. If he’s healthy, he’s the kind of pitcher (flyball pitcher, strikeout) who can succeed pitching half his games at Citi Field. If they can get him fairly cheaply, I like this move a lot. Please sign 2 or 3 more starting pitchers, and find some bargain basement hard fastball/slider guys for the bullpen.
I say do it. Sign a one-year deal for him and see what he can do.
Young is what?.. 6’8 240 lbs and he has never thrown more than 200 inngs in a year. At his best Young needed to be handled with kid gloves. I’d pass on him except to sign him for rock bottom price.
Chris Young is John Maine.
I find it hard to believe that in this day in age that no one has created a protective helmet for pitchers. I mean any protection they can were especially those who have been hit before will be welcomed and hopefully not rediculed like the batting helmet Wright wore for about two weeks. It would give the pitcher piece of mind knowing that if they get hit it will be less severe than not wearing one. Does anyone know if a product like this exist.