If only Reyes had the opt out after 3 it would guarantee him 94M and leave open the opportunity to go free agent at 31 at which point I would strongly consider just letting him go depending on the CBA and draft pick compensation.

All players are injury risks, not just one’s who’ve been hurt before. I really don’t see Jose as being more of a risk than anyone else so the question becomes one of tying a lot of payroll into another player at the expense of having to skimp elsewhere.

Next year Santana, Niese, Pelfrey, Gee, Dickey is already committed or inexpensive or in Pelfrey’s case could even be non tendered. The following year could have two of Mejia, Familia, Harvey and Holt up here. That’s not costing a lot. The bullpen is likely to just be re worked every years at a low cost from the farm and non compensatable FA’s. Bench should be useful and in expensive with Murphy, Turner, Fern, Pridie, Thole.

Davis, Tejada, Reyes and Flores @ 3B wouldn’t cost much combined. Bay’s a drag at 16M and you need a starting C, RFer and possibly a CFer but what does that all come out too. About 100 M WITH Reyes or 120 M WITH Reyes and Wright. Less if we could find a workable platoon for RF.

I don’t see why it couldn’t fly.

DOES ANYONE ELSE REALIZE WHILE THERE’S CERTAINLY TEAMS WITH THE WHEREWITHALL TO SPEND AND THE NEED @ SS.
JOSE, IS NOT THE ONLY HIGH LEVEL SS HITTING THE MARKET THIS YR. J-ROLL & ALEX ESCOBAR ARE HIS COMPANIONS & BOTH LIKELY TO DEMAN FAR LESS THAN BEING SPECULATED UPON. I DOUBT MORE THAN 5Y IS HAPPENING FOR JOSE’S HAMMIES.
MUTUAL OPT OUT IS PERFECT INSURANCE FOR JOSE AS IF HE’S DISAPPOINTED WITH ALDERSON’S REBUILDING MNGT OR TEAM’S DIRECTION. AS WELL AS OPTING OUT COULD BE PERFECT FOR NYM SHOULD REYES’ INJURIES CONTINUE TO PLAGUE HIM/THEM!
BTW, @ THES PROPOSED VALUES, JOSE WILL BE THE HIGHEST PAID SS FOR ALL 5 YRS. FIRST 3 ALONE, NEXT 2 TIED WITH TULO

What the hell would any scout know about our money situation, Free Agent thinking and evaluation of Reyes from Sandy’s perspective unless the scout IS Sandy?

Everyone assumed that when Sandy said he is waiting to see what happens with Reyes that he had to be talking about Reyes himself.
But what the rest of the team was doing was always more important to determining keeping or selling off Reyes than Reyes’ performance on his own.

Reyes’ Performance really only affects how much we could get back and/or how much we might have to pay him. But the decision to sign or sell was always going to be about what was around him and if tthose guys around him warranted keeping a payroll like Reyes’ on the books!

I think the play of Davis (before he got hurt) and the emergence of three Capable guys who can play 2B makes signing Reyes to have a completed infield for at least two years (when Wright comes up for renewal) a very nice place for Sandy to be in. In field done retool the outfield and rotation/pen. if we just have a little luck on Santana’s return and If Harvey, Holt or Mejia don’t have any more setbacks that could be solved by the end of next year!

Just around the time where we hae to figure out if Wright is worth keeping or trading!

All of that says the team is such that it may now make sense to resign Reyes while he is still relativly in his prime.

at least next year, there will be 2 less drags (18mill total) and Beltran is off, so they can still drop payroll. That is close to 40mill going away, and it only represents 1 player to replace (and corner OF is not the hardest place to do it)

unless maybe he was chatting it up with Omar?

And what developed is that Reyes is having his best year yet, stayed healthy and may stay!

As for trading Wright I think it made a lot of sense about two weeks ago before the Back injury. But now people will assume if we are trading the “Face” there must be something dreadly wrong with him and won’t offer much in return!

Maybe in the off season but the trade deadline is out for now.