Jose Reyes has told the Mets he will not discuss a new contract with the team during the season. This afternoon at Citi Field, Sandy Alderson spoke with reporters and said he reached out to the agents for Jose Reyes and was told their will not be any negotiations for a new contract until after the season. The agent, Peter Greenberg, was contacted by the Mets in recent days to gauge whether Reyes...
Read MoreRepeating what he has said since hiring new GM Sandy Alderson, Mets COO Jeff Wilpon told the NY Post that Alderson could bring in any players he wants and that he has no restrictions. “He’ll have all the opportunity in the world to bring anybody he wants in,” team COO Jeff Wilpon said yesterday, without giving the GM carte blanche. “The way for him to do that is to bring...
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A week ago I wondered about the possibilty of not trading Carlos Beltran, but instead keeping him and trying to work out a 2-year deal. You can read that below. I wanted to update this post with a comment Terry Collins made when asked about his thoughts on trading Beltran. “You can’t lose the energy, you can’t lose the positive, because the players will read into it,”...
Read MoreThe question doesn’t appear to be “if,’’ but “when,’’ the Mets will deal outfielder Carlos Beltran. The physical questions that followed him into the season have seemingly been answered in the positive, which means the Mets don’t have to think solely about dealing with the American League, although there are several interesting possibilities, including Boston, Chicago and Detroit. The Red Sox...
Read MoreBuffalo Bisons 1 – Durham Bulls 2 A good pitchers duel down in Durham. All of the runs in the game came on just two swings of the bat. Dylan Owen got another start and pitched very well. He cruised through the first two innings, but it was a double and then two-run home run from Desmond Jennings (Does someone wanna tell me why he isn’t in the majors yet? Sam Fuld, really?). Owen was...
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