17
2011
Mets And Chris Young Agree To Deal, Pending Physical
An article by Hojo's Mojo
The Mets and free-agent right-hander Chris Young have agreed to a deal, pending a physical, an organization source told ESPN NewYork.
Aaron Gleeman adds,
Young has a 3.80 ERA in 752 career innings, but the 32-year-old has never thrown even 180 innings in a season and hasn’t been healthy and effective since 2007. Despite his 6-foot-10 frame and solid career numbers Young has always been a soft-tosser, but his average fastball velocity was just 84.7 miles per hour last season and 85.8 mph in 2009.
No word on the contract details yet and whether it’s minor or major league deal.
If it is a major league deal, the Mets would have to announce a corresponding move as to whom they have designated or released from their 40 man roster.
The Mets rotation could probably look like this:
1. Mike Pelfrey
2. R.A. Dickey
3. Jon Niese
4. Chris Young
5. Dillon Gee or Chris Capuano
Competitive enough to do battle in the NL East? What do you think?
Original Post 2:30 PM
According to Steve Popper of the Bergen Record, the Mets fully expect to get a deal done with free agent pitcher, Chris Young.
Mets exec says – no surprise – expects Chris Young will get done eventually. But no timetable yet.
A few days ago, our own Brandon Butler reported the following,
Sources tell MLB.com’s William Ladson that the report saying the Nationals are interested in Chris Young are “not true”. Earlier this week, it was reported that the Nationals were the other team, besides the Mets, who are interested in Chris Young’s services. This means the Mets are the lone wolf in the running for Chris Young. Or is there a yet unknown team in the mix that is keeping this marriage from going through?
Again, this whole not having room on the 40-man roster situation is probably causing all these delays in getting things done quickly and smoothly. I imagine that it could be the reason for the delay here, especially when it seems that no other team has shown as much interest in Young as the Mets have.
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Its really great news. It took 3 GMs to get 3 injured pitchers signed, Well, at least the GMs get paid well. Ticket sales should go totally down the drain.
You’re full of it. The Mets should have stayed the course and kept on doign the very things that have made them so successful the last 4 years.
you do realize the mets have 1 GM, with the other 2 guys being a special assistant/scouting guy (which ever team has) and a director of player development type (replacing Collins basically), something else that every team has?
Those 2 are charged with fixing the mess that is the overall organizational structure (culture, way of doing things in the minors, etc. AKA player development) and improving the scouting and drafting (that is, getting better players into the system).
2 huge areas for improvement that were seemingly botched or ignored by Omar. Vital to long term success of the team, and not something you can do in a week. also things that you might not see the results of for a couple of years, but huge tasks right now.
you make yourself sound silly implying they have 3 guys sitting around the FO talking to FAs and calling teams about trades, and doing nothing else.
I noticed that the deal was done “pending a physical.” This is a departure from the previous regime for sure.
If a player suddenly became “available” Omar would rush through all the details in order to have looked good in January.
Too bad he didn’t have Putz looked at and we could have had a 28 year old LHP who made 31 starts and pitched to a 3.78 ERA last year who, incidentally will be making 1/12th of what Ollie will be.
Maybe some of you guys are too impatient. Having lived through the Minaya error perhaps taking your time and getting it right is going to be more important than “winning the off season.”
I approve of this signing. It helps and I think he’ll fit nicely in Citi Field.
If he’s healthy, of course. I don’t expect this to be more than 2 million base with maybe 2-3 in incentives.
Another arm to have in spring training and see what he can give us.
Maybe one of these guys will not be with us full year.
Who ever starts season with us does not have to end it with us.
Pleased with the signing, although I also was quite optimistic when the Mets signed Jeff D’Amico a few years ago.
I seriously question the wisdom of letting Takahashi walk when he made many valuable contributions from a variety of roles. His health was never an issue and he always carried himself as a professional. Even his stats as a starter are a bit skewed, as he typically was quite effective early on, although opposing line-ups caught up with him the third time through the order. 8-for-8 as a closer, without the drama.
Anyhow, Chris Young can be incredibly effective. I recall a game he pitched when we couldn’t touch him. He wasn’t overpowering, just impossible to hit squarely. If anything, he provides quality depth.
Santana
Pelfrey
Dickey
Niese
Capuano
Young
Gee
Not a bad pool to select from, just a little dinged-up. 2012 will be quite different when we subtract the contracts of Beltran, Ollie, Castillo & K-Rod. That’s a cool $50 million, at least some of which we can earmark to top-flight arms.
I’m not looking at 2012 right now. The 2011 Mets lineup is good enough to contend for a WC now and better pitchers should have been acquired using a little more money, not a lot.
We have a whole slew of pitchers signed now w/previous injuries.
It should not have been handled this way. Not in New York City.
And what pitchers are you talking about? Are they real pitchers? Or vampire pitchers? Other than Lee, who did you want the Mets to sign. I would have liked to see Francis here instead of Young, but thats over with now.
SFlorida: Please don’t ask Bayonne for a list of pitchers he feels the Mets should have and could have gotten. It’s way easier for him to just speak in generic, when you ask for specifics…its gets far too complicated for him because he doesn’t realize the baseball world doesn’t revolve around Queens
If healthy, we got ourselves a heck of a pitcher without having to give up the farm. Nice job by the new Mets front office.
i’d like to see what this “physical” entails.
if he goes on the dl prior to April 1st, id say it’s time to get a whole new team of doctors in here … again.
NICE!!! We now have enough arms to have a great competition in spring training in 31 days!
Post-All-Star Break (if all goes well…knock on wood):
Santana
Young
Pelfrey
Dickey
Niese
Now THAT’s a rotation. Chris Young, when healthy, is easily the 2nd-best or best pitcher that the Mets have until Johan returns. His health is always the issue, not his ability (2009 being a statistical anomaly, not the standard). I think (as long as this wasn’t a 3/$36M contract) this is a fantastic signing.
You can’t list him as a number two behind Santana when he has never won more than 12 games in a season..Pelfrey has already had a 13 win and 15 win seasons. Even in his worst full season he won 10 games. So he would seem like the number 2 behind Santana to rank him below young is an insult. I like Young’s make up he is a battler and I wish him well…
The one thing I would like to see Pelfrey do is, strike more batters out. He has the power arm for it. Maybe he should work on getting a little more dip in his split finger fastball. He needs a strike out pitch he can go to..
Great Stuff Hojo as always. Thanks for the reference to my article.
I think this is a great signing. Hopefully he passes the physical. If not, then back to the drawing board.
At least he’s going to be GIVEN a physical.
Yeah definitely! Lets just hope the Mets are ok with the physical.
great moveeeeeeeee good job sandy
Now we have a complete team and are ready to do battle in the NL East. We just have to put the players in place in ST And this team will rock. I have no reason not to believe that the final two positions will be filled with Murphy and Thole. The starters will be Pelfry, Young, Dickey, Niese and Gee.The bullpen will have a mix of the remaining pitchers. The bench will be Hu,Evans,Emaus,Harris,& Paulino.