IT WILL BE DAMNED MORE INTERESTING THAN ’09-’10 COMBINED!

ROTS OF RUCK! as was once commonly said, hadn’t though that phrase in decades; but just popped between my ears & seemed a perfect sentiment.

Suprisingly no one has yet to figure they could possibly retain Reyes @ mkt value & cut payroll from ’11 level simultaneously.
Solution: as Beltran’s 100% departing making 18.5M in ’11 alongside Reyes’ 11M option. u simply slide the Beltran earmark over to a Reyes’ offer & pocket the 11M u were paying Jose since Pagan will cover CF, a MiLBer for RF @ not nearly combined 11M. TA DA!
…and my hands never left my keyboard! lol

On a different topic, u may want to check the amazing similarities between Straw’s debut season & Ike’s

Only dire need by a win now club would make anyone else even look at 17.5 M in 2012 for a closer.

These vesting options look like they make sense when contracts get agreed to but frequently hurt both the team and the player down the road but 17.5? for 60 innings? Whew.

’62, Getting out from under that option will help with the resigning of Reyes. I hope we can.

What if as you say the number of games finished he has in mid-July is one where he most likely will have his option vest. At the same time KRod is having a great (All-Star caliber) year as a closer. Now pick any team in the race in dire need of a premier closer to have a real chance at winning a World Series.

How much is it worth said team to add a Closer of KRod’s caliber for the post season run?
Is it worth 17.5M?

if he gets traded, does the option still stand ?

i suppose yes.

if it does still stand, who pays the 17.5 million for next year.

i suppose the new team.

if all that’s true. i would guess that the number of games finished he has in mid-July impacts his trade value.

a team that’s on the hook for the option will not trade for him.

that said, he should also be cognizant of the big picture. And that simply means no letting rankie pitch the 9th in a blow out, to just “get work”. If he can’t get his work in the pen, then he can pitch the 8th inning in a romp if he just wants some action. Even the MLBPA should not be able to complain about that!

as to the trade, more likely scenario is a team desperately needing a set up man, that doesn’t plan to use him as a closer because they already have one. again, nothing to complain about there!

Pretty much becomes moot if he has an injury along the way. Miss 3 weeks, and not likely to get to 55 anyway. Or if the mets are free falling like last year, not many save ops!

Add in a few blown saves of his own as well and that could be 10 right there.

40 saves and a handful of “getting some work in” type finishes and he’s there.

Using him in the 8th on the road in high leverage situations is key. If he gets a 5 or 6 out save he can always be rested the next day or even two depending on his prior day’s workload.