Mets At Trade Deadline: Selling Is Still Inevitable

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• Scott T July 7, 2011 at 4:45 pm

  Pelfrey may be fussy, inconsistent and frustrating to watch, but if you trade him who will you use in the Mets rotation. In your expected moves, you also have Capuano being dealt, and seem to be ok with that. Why would you want to deal an unexpensive starting pitcher who has been solid all season? Capuano may not be an ace, but he makes 1 mill and has been there for every start, mostly giving the team length and solid outings. I see no reason to try to deal him.

  As far as Beltran and KRod go, we all know they will be dealt because they are costly assets that the Mets cannot afford right now. Even if the Piccard case gets settled soon, which it might now that a judge has taken the case out of bankruptcy court, the Mets still may trade away these guys to lower payroll. But, if the case is settled in favor of the Wilpons, that may change everything.

  Anyway, I see no reason to trade any starting pitching until they have solid replacements, and that may not happen for a year or 2 without free agent signing or trades.

  This team is so unlucky…with their injuries, their schedule compared to the rest of the NL East and their bad start this season. They appear to be a .500 club, but they are much better than that. The proof is in their play against all these 1st place clubs. You can see that they match up with them, and are better than most of them.

  This team should be/could be 15 games over .500 right now, easily.
  • METS62FAN July 8, 2011 at 9:41 am

    Scott, you’re spot on to criticize the inclusion of Capy primaruily because he should be envisioned as paert of next year’s rotation, if not the pen if heis price doesn’t escalate more than 25%. K-Rod’s an obvious discaed due to poisen ppill extension vasting clause. Izzy’s a 1 yr storyline of good feelings, more of it could turn styomachs sour. Beltran could be like milk, kept in your fridge all the way to exp date then discarded not one day sooner unless someone makes u any offer that couild potentially be a plus(think Wagner) not good; but not the worst case either; sort of like lemonade without sweetner.
    Byrdak? lone lh reliever? he hasn’t been Feliciano, not even Takahashi like; but viable enough to be marketed. whatever price he brings, it’s more. How likely is it that Byrdak could be the difference between catchibng Braves or 3rd place? Is he REALLY that irreplacably important? I don’t believe so.
    Other than that, keeping Beltran until 8/31, moving K-Rod,Izzy,Byrdie on 7/31 are all moves who’s value is contingent upon the return received & what it does for future campaigns. Potentially not fully realized until most of those we’ve paerted with have retired(Beltran,Isringhausen,Byrdak)
• Gregga July 7, 2011 at 5:25 pm

  I’d move Pelfrey before I moved Capuano. Heck, I’d re-sign Cappy right now to a two year deal, with an option for the third. Pelfrey has proven to be inconsistent, and a bit flaky\needy.
  I wouldn’t be so fast to trade K-Rod, because the Mets do in fact need a closer.
• Original Met Fan July 7, 2011 at 8:35 pm

  Why are so many of you more preoccupied with dismantling this team rather then rooting for them to keep pushing and fighting the way they have? It’s ridiculous that you want the team to be sellers rather than buyers. Too many of you are in love with the idea of dwelling at rock bottom and rebuilding from scratch every five years, and you would think you’d be sick and tired of operating that way for the last few decades.
  • stick July 7, 2011 at 10:05 pm

    nothing to do with wanting to hit bottom or build from scratch. More wanting to get as much fresh talent into the system as possible to beef up for the future. And looking at the standings and not thinking the team is a viable playoff contender (though if they keep winning like this, go for it!)

    and the biggie, the fact that beltran won’t be back anyway, and K rod is too damn expensive next year since they have better areas to spend that money.

    also, trading spare part types isn’t exactly setting the future back for five years.
• Mets 76 July 7, 2011 at 10:13 pm

  This is definitely not the same Mets team as in years past. When there is an injury, other guys step up and when there is a bad loss or 2 it is forgotten about and we come back fighting the next day. Kudos to Collins for what he has done. I am fine with trading Beltran and K-Rod. We can replace them with F-Mart and Parnell. I would definitely try to move Pelf but not Capuano. All I want is for this team to play hard, make a little run towards the end and just compete. As for next season please just sign Reyes!! If we do that and everyone comes back healthy (Santana, Davis, Wright, Young) then we can be right in the mix with everyone else. Philly is great but is getting older and Atlanta does not impress me. If we can have a lineup of Reyes, Pagan, Wright, Bay, Davis, F-Mart, Tejada/Murphy and Thole and a rotation of Santana, Young, Capuano, Niese and Dickey then I think we can definitely be in the mix. Parnell is definitely ready for the closer role and we would get Mejia back and I love Beato. Let’s go Mets!