Seriously, its a blog, its suppose to be fun, maybe a little informative. It is not life, we are not the GMs or on staff at the Mets, fans some with higher hopes then others.

That’s it.

I don’t see a scenario where Philly fails to keep Hamels but the Yankees do have 6 well thought of pitchers between high A and AAA and two others at 3B in AA and AAA as well as Montero and considering how they lost out on Lee and then lost out on him again….

It would be incredibly ballsy of Amaro Jr. and he better be right if he did such a thing or he might be run out of town.

Unlikely to say the very least but up for discussion? Why not? Even video games are why not this?

You mean 86mets, Alex in CT, Metsie, iZ, K Maxx, francis, alwaysnextyear, BryanNYC, Carl, JerryG15, t agee, pete and you who replied with an opinion on this post?

I don’t see how they were baitedif by baited your inferring to tricked if they agreed with the author after reading that the post was merely to “kill some time debating the merits of the Mets chasing down the young and very prized southpaw”?

Nevertheless

“It’s a slow new days, and rather than recycling the same old Mets news again and again, lets kill some time debating the merits of the Mets chasing down the young and very prized southpaw.”

and really, hamels is not santana or halladay. and lastly, these 4 for 1 deals are done to get a team an ace to put them over the top, when you don’t even have a real fourth starter, and your third starter is a journeyman 35 year old, this isn’t the deal you do.

What we need is multiple starting pitchers to come through for us and giving up a CFer too who can fully defend CF in Citi Field and also has an arm, good BA and OB against RHP, some pop and is a great base runner would make moot acquiring an outstanding pitcher anyway. The whole thing is moot anyway as Philly would never consider trading him within the division and I highly doubt they will not be resigning him anyway and they certainly won’t be doing it for the types of guys we got Johan for.

Santana, if he were to come back as the same pitcher he was, Hamels, Pelfrey, Dickey and Niese would be worth giving up fair compensation for I will agree but increasing the payroll 20 million a year to do it with just Matz, Cohoon and Familia in reserve would be completely discounting the likelihood that one two or even three of them have off years, regress or get hurt and then what?

Right now quantity is very important for this team. Lack of quantity is what has caused us to overpay in years and dollars for too many holes on the roster. Counting on just one guy in every position has left us unable to deal with under performance, injuries and prospect stagnation in the minors.

To give up 3 possible cost controlled young starting pitching prospects AND a quality CFer is the type of move a team one player away can afford to make. We have acted as a team one player away almost every year when in fact we were many players away and eventually we ran out of players because of it. That’s why we had so many players running in and out of here through the years that almost no other team in either league would even consider.

Player A: 60-45, 3.53 ERA, 1.17 WHIP, 8.5 SO/9 (plays in pitchers nightmare)

Player B: 43-41, 4.31 ERA, 1.45 WHIP, 5.1 SO/9 (plays in pitchers heaven)

Which player is better and would you want if you were a GM?

Or do you need another 5 years to decide? LMAO!

To the other guy, plus Pelfrey has a terrible whip while picthing always in pitchers parks.

Trade Pagan and you will regret it every single day for the next 3 years.

Too much expense, too much risk of losing tremendous upside and too much money in just one player. Pass. The only way Philly makes Hamels available is if they know or suspect something no one else does. Buyer beware.