Jose Reyes With The Halos?

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• darth minaya July 20, 2011 at 1:46 pm

  He is definitely going to walk. He is a massive injury risk. He is having a career season.

  Not trading him now is going to end up being a very costly mistake.
  • alex68 July 20, 2011 at 1:50 pm

    lmao, what, you rather build around david wright?? and end up with 70-92 record at best every year!!! lol.. don’t make me laugh!!
  • t agee July 20, 2011 at 2:47 pm

    Reyes would be perfect for the Angels, no question. Abreu’s money comes off the books at the end of this year and Hunters next but Well’s deal has three more years to run and the LAA have Pinero up this year and Weaver, Haren and Santana in 2013 so what do they do for a pitching staff? Retaining Weaver, Haren and Santana will have to cost the savings of Hunter and Abreu (27 M) easily and their already at 140 M and need to replace Pinero plus Kendrick and Aybar are up in 2013 as well so your talking going to 155 M just to stay where they are right now.

    The Angeles top pitching prospects are Chatwood (already up), Garrett Richards 23, AA and Fabio Martinez A+. Not a lot of inhouse options for the rotation in the next couple of years so retaining Weaver, Haren and Santana, or replacing any of them is going to be costly.

    Jean Segura 21 A+ is their most talented SS but he’s still a few years away. With Tout, Trumbo, Wilson, Thompson, Chatwood, Conger, Bourjos, Walden, Kohn, and Casavah making league minimum that helps but the Wells deal is a real killer. I’d still love to hear just one plausable explanation for making that deal.

    I can see Jose loving that offense, loving that weather, Hollywood, the whole thing. I can also see him hating the 5 extra hours getting back to the DR or using the whole thing as a smokescreen but I really can’t see the Angeles zooming their payroll above 175 M which would place them 2nd in the Majors behind the NYY and right about even with them in 2012 while Hunter is still under contract at about 193 M.

    Thank God for the Wells deal.
• alex68 July 20, 2011 at 1:49 pm

  This is usually the end result when a player says either sign me before the season starts or talk to my agent after the season ends when I’m a free agent”

  again, if he walks, or end up being too expensive, blame it on the know it all, saving money sandy.. his approach was just horrendous from the beginning, by saying if he’s healthy we’ll sign him, he basically slap jose reyes in the face, i mean, the rockies signed overratedwitzki up until 2021!!!!! and yet, he’s missed almost as many games as reyes has in the past 4 season, it shows that when you think you know it all like you think, you end up not knowing s***!!!!!
  also, the comments by our stupid owner sure didn’t make things better..
  • Donal July 20, 2011 at 2:04 pm

    Ya, Alderson really must have pissed Reyes off by saying he was a joy to watch, a very exciting player and that he hopes Reyes will be part of the Mets plans for a long time.
    • alex68 July 20, 2011 at 2:09 pm

      ATER he refused to signed him in the offseason, and “let’s wait and see if he doesn’t get injured!!!
      well guess what, this “know it all” will get usone of those POS SS and tell the legion of followers he’s got (including you and others) we will be fine w/o reyes, he chose not to accept my low balling ffer i proposed
      • Hitman July 20, 2011 at 2:40 pm

        OH SHUT UP!

        Do you do anything besides complain all the time? You second guessers are unbelievable. NOBODY thought Reyes would put up the numbers he has put up this season and even if Alderson decided to extend Reyes before the season without knowing if Reyes would be 100% and/or to see if his performance would’ve suffered or not, you would STILL be on his jock right now. When Reyes went on the DL not all that long ago, you probably would’ve been like, “Why did sandy extend him? Why he couldn’t wait till the end of the season with injury prone POS Reyes???” Don’t sit here and bullshit people reading this, including me.
        • alex68 July 20, 2011 at 2:48 pm

          i will write a complaint about how you’re telling me to shut up and using curse words while addresing me, if you don’t like my post don’t read them and don’t reply either, is not my fault you are one of the suckers who follow money saving sandy philosophy (lies), my point is well written and well taken, if you don’t like it too bad, is the truth, reyes IS my fav met along with beltran and johan, and i follow this team prob before you were even a thought, so make sure you don’t reply to my post since you think i complain or i am bs’ing ppl with my comments.. move on if you don’t like them, i don’t like your crap so i never reply, do the same!!!!
          • Hitman July 20, 2011 at 3:05 pm

            Here’s a suggestion: How about you do us all a favor and just leave? Your comments are getting dumber and dumber by the day. NEWSFLASH! NOBODY likes your posts! You’ve just been a complete nuisance since you came back. You reporting me? What a hypocrite. You’ve been following Jessep around, accusing him of getting people banned, and look at you trying to do the same. Do you really think I care how long you’ve followed this team? I’m not a sucker for anything….you’re just one of the insecure, scared little sheep here who think they have the front office figured out but the fact is that you actually know NOTHING at all.
            • alex68 July 20, 2011 at 3:13 pm

              first of all i was being sarcastic about writing a complaint about you, i am a man and i have no need for that, if i got issues with you i’ll tell you in your face and that’s that, although some ppl would actually use that to think i am threating them or something, second of all, do you honestly think i give a f*** what you think about me?? if you don’t like my post DON’T REPLY!!!!! you claim i don’t know or have the FO figured out but i don’t know nothing, my question is, DO YOU?? again, DO YOU??? you work with depodesta or something??? i am a leader not a followe like you, so the notion of me “following” a loser like jesseP is vomit talk, please move on and let me be.. “hit” man..
              • Hitman July 20, 2011 at 3:33 pm

                Sarcastic….right.

                You’re a man? Please. I’m only 22 and I’m a lot more mature and patient than you are. If you’ve really followed this team a long time, you would know it doesn’t take one season to mop up the mess the previous regime made. Frank Cashen, the best GM this franchise ever had, didn’t magically turn the Mets into perennial contenders after one season, now did he?

                If you don’t care what I think so much, why are you getting more & more offended the more you post? Obviously, I’m striking a nerve. I’m sorry (and I apologize to Joe D if I violated a guideline) but I don’t pull punches. Ever. I’m gonna tell you like it is and what I’m telling you is that you need to shut it with the constant Alderson bashing. It’s getting pathetic by the day. You & the rest of your “core” on the shoutbox almost on a daily basis early in the morning have nothing better to do than to bitch about Sandy Alderson and what he didn’t do in the offseason. It’s really sickening to me when I read people wanting to sign a 17 game LOSER like Kevin Millwood.

                No, Alex, you are not a leader. In fact, I doubt you even know what’s the definition of a leader. You just go with the flow of dribble spewed by the “Sandy Alderson is saber so he sucks by default” crowd. I’m a lot better than that. Too bad you’re not.

                I’ll move on, because when it comes right down to it….you’re not worth it. You’re the Mike Pelfrey of the site: Hopefully someday, you get “it”, but right now, you fail to grasp the sense of a thing called LOGIC.
      • Kay July 20, 2011 at 7:22 pm

        There isn’t a GM in baseball that would have signed Reyes this past off-season.

        You have now reached the new level of ignorance that I didn’t think was possible.
    • t agee July 20, 2011 at 3:06 pm

      I think the owners comments set the bar for Jose and those have done the most damage by far. The rest of it is just business posturing.

      The best time to have discussed a deal was in ST 2010. We already knew he was healthy and recovered from his torn hamstring tendon and once the thyroid was diagnosed as nothing to be concerned about, that would have been the right time to strike a deal.

      Of course some money should have been set aside because everyone knew that this day would come. Maddoff was over a year old at that point. What was the need to go out and sign a “slugger” at Citi Field anyway? After the season fell apart Minaya had no say and the new administration had a lot to do before ST.

      The whole thing was really a case of bad timing and while 5/90 would probably have sealed the deal, once Crawford got 7/140 that changed the dynamic.

      In this business you really have to think ahead. The Mets are always behind the curve because all they ever think about is this year.
• Matt July 20, 2011 at 2:21 pm

  “If nothing else, this shows Reyes, for whatever reason, is now inclined to consider playing for other teams besides the Mets.” For whatever reason?!?!?! Hmmmm, what reason could he have to want to play for another team? Wants to win, get paid more, pissed/hurt by Wilpons comments, upset that he wasn’t offered a new contract earlier….pick a reason.

  Reyes actually would be a great fit for the Angels. They need a SS and they need offense. Reyes is my favorite Met, however, he deserves better than what he has gotten thus far, both in terms of surrounding players and treatment from management. Angels would be a great fit for both parties…and they aren’t the Phillies. I still think the best fit for Reyes, if not with the Mets, is with the Phillies…so, the best worst-case scenario would be for him to go 3000 miles away and be in the AL.
• any July 20, 2011 at 2:22 pm

  agents blow smoke. lots of it. and right up “reporters” butts.
• Dave [Retire31] July 20, 2011 at 2:25 pm

  The saying, “when Reyes goes, so do the Mets” is taking on a whole ‘nother meaning these days.
• jdon July 20, 2011 at 3:26 pm

  or “AS Reyes goes, so go the mets”. You could say that too. Problem is, they have not gone anywhere with him. Remember what Branch Rickey told Ralph Kiner: “We finished last with you, we can finish last without you.”‘ As exciting as he can be, teams who win WS somehow do it without Jose Reyes. How is that possible? To listen to fans on these sites, the departure of Reyes will signal the End of Days. Get real, people. San Fran won it without him. Phillies, Yankees, Cardinals. Where was their Reyes? If they could fit him in, fine. They will not die without him. Personallhy, I would still try to trade him.
• sarge July 20, 2011 at 3:48 pm

  Buster Onley on ESPN radio said today that Mets insider have already decided to not trade Jose and I believe that once the season is over and all comes to a head then Jose will consider staying with Mets since he loves NY, as does his wife, as stated it is a long way to travel back to DR with his mom, kids, etc.

  He is wanted in NY, Citi Field is made for his type of play and once David and him are together again on same team I see him as going for the best offer out there but also considering the what is best for his family also.

  Money is the motivating factor but money can’t bring you closer to your family in the Carribbean and family ties to DR will be a big reason for where he winds up, just saying.

  I am stating my opinion that he stays, contract amount if not for me to state, but he knows that he where he is wanted and fans and city play a big part in that.
• jdon July 20, 2011 at 3:56 pm

  I think Jose will follow the money
  • Luis July 20, 2011 at 8:42 pm

    Greg Maddux is the onlu guy I know who did not follow the $$ when he signed wi Atl. I am hoping Jose agrees to stay, but it seems doubtful
• METS62FAN July 21, 2011 at 10:51 am

  Personally, I believe this is BS since the team’s outlook of dealing him have dried up someones’s attempting to create controversy from the player’s perspective. Modst likely, Jose was answering a question poised like “Assuming it doesn’t wpork with the Mets, where would u prefer to sign/go?

  Jose has repeatedly indicated along with his wife their dire preferrence to remain and this type of BS seems created out of press desperation for a controversy.