Mets Closer Open To Trade, Cashman Not Interested

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• alex68 June 24, 2011 at 10:52 am

  he knows he’s not wanted here, mets fans prefer bobby parnell closing out games i am sure.. ppl don’t appreciate what they have until they lose it.. again, mets are in contention, and ppl here wanna get rid of reyes, krod and beltran because they don’t like them.. yet when they see a bunch of garbage playing short, CF, and closing games then they’d realize how lucky we were to have such good players..
  • t agee June 24, 2011 at 12:36 pm

    There is almost no one that WANTS to get rid of Reyes. Some people feel 20 M a year is too much to tie up in one player now that our payroll is going to be around 125M and I can understand that. That doesn’t mean people WANT to get rid of him.

    Carlos leaves at the end of the year and we get zippo. Realistically we should try to get some kind of a credible prospect going forward so we’re not playing shorthanded down the road as well.

    K-Rod could have tremendous value for someone and right now is just a luxury for a team that would have leapfrog SEVEN other teams in the NL in order to get a Wild card and most importantly would represent about 20% of what it will cost to keep Jose if that 17M dollar option is cleared from our books.

    Clearing that option and getting two credible prospects and KEEPING Jose would by far be the best move this team could make for both the present and the future. Remember we have since 1998 given up 15 early round draft choices and made numerous trades from the farm in order to go for it and what have we gotten out of it?

    The NYY have plenty of catching prospects in their organization, we have none. They have Montero (1.6M IFA from Venezuela) in AAA. Austin Romaine (2nd rounder, 2007) in AA, JR Murphy (2nd rounder 2009) just promoted to A+, and Gary Sanchez (3M IFA from the DR, 2009) in A-.

    K-Rod for one of them (I’d like Murphy) could very likely provide us with a decent or even good catcher in 2014-2020 at least and he would instantly become our top catching prospect and most importantly help us find the money to keep Jose. If Carlos left behind a decent looking prospect and kicked in 6 M toward keeping Reyes as well all the better.

    I have no interest in “competing” for a Wild Card, getting eliminated on Sept. 17th, getting nothing for Beltran, losing Reyes and having K-Rod close out games for us in 2012 at 17M when our “offense” includes the leagues worst numbers at C, SS, LF and RF and the defense at 2B and C are pretty questionable as well which is a pretty realistic idea of what 2012 holds for us without Beltran and Reyes and with Bay, Thole, Tejada at SS and Murphy/Turner at 2B.

    The idea that we could play better over the 2nd half of the season than ALL SEVEN of the other NL teams that are “in the hunt” with the leagues worst offensive production at 1B, LF and catcher, questionable defense at 1B, 2B and catcher and being one injury away from Chris Schwinden in the rotation is just unrealistic.

    Sometimes you have to take a step back in order to take two steps forward. This is one of those times.
  • Hitman June 24, 2011 at 6:16 pm

    “mets fans prefer bobby parnell closing out games i am sure”

    LMFAO!
• Hitman June 24, 2011 at 6:19 pm

  If K-Rod’s open to a trade, I’d see if Texas is interested in him. Hopefully, we’ll get at least 2-3 players in return. We may still be in contention, but I still see room for an upgrade and let’s face it…a lot of us knew K-Rod would be good as gone. I’d persue a closer (or two) at the deadline. With guys like Papelbon, Bell, Adams, and Broxton available, there’s nothing to lose.
  • oktoday June 24, 2011 at 6:49 pm

    It is too early to give it up. If Wright becomes right, along with a right Bay. Plus the five starters, get back into it for the rest of the season, then there is still hope that a nice few good winning streaks does come the Mets way. Then there is still hope for the WC.
    • Hitman June 24, 2011 at 7:05 pm

      Exactly how are the Mets “giving up” when they trade K-Rod? I do not understand that logic when you have a good class of closers being up for grabs at the deadline. Even if Wright comes back, what can we expect from him? The guy who looked good the first few weeks of the season or the same guy we’ve seen the last few years whiffing time and time again? Surely, I hope Collins doesn’t put Wright back in the #3 spot in the lineup with Beltran progressing at that spot in Wright’s absence. The only way the Mets can go on a winning streak is if they bring in some new blood to the pen, bench, rotation and in the lineup. If Davis is gonna be gone for the year, you’re looking at whether Cuddyer, Pena or Lee as potential rentals at 1st base (we’ll be needing some pop/adequate defense at 1st down the stretch). There may be hope for a Wild Card spot, but there’s a lot of work to be done over the next month.
• vtmet June 24, 2011 at 7:02 pm

  misleading headlines 101?

  Part of headline: Cashman not interest…

  Maybe I’m blind, but I don’t see it mentioned ANYWHERE in the article that Cashman said that he’s not interested…
  • SFloridaMetsFan June 25, 2011 at 11:01 am

    Was just about to say that….
• t agee June 24, 2011 at 8:23 pm

  It was in the article about Soriano.
• Midwestern Met June 24, 2011 at 11:52 pm

  Small ball can only get you so far. The Mets learn that the hard way in Texas. Read all about the power surge at MM: http://tiny.cc/2vur0