IS LIKELY ONE OF THE MOST LUDICRUS QUESTIONS I’VE SEEN ANYONE “LOST FOR NEW MATERIAL” TAKE REFUGE BEHIND. U DO REALIZE REYES IS PRIMARILY A LEADOFF HITTER BY DEFINITION IN THE NL. THAT POSITION IS RELIANT UPON A TEASM EFFORT TO ENSURE THE GREATEST IMPACT. RS IS THE KEY “IMPACT # FOR LEADOFFERS. BASEBALL IS A SPORT RELIANT UPON THE COMPILATION OF 25 CONTRIBUTUIONS, NO ONE PLAYER TYPICALLY CARRIES A TEAM THROUGH 162G FOR THAT QUESION TO HAVE MEANING.(THERE ARE NO MICAEL JORDANS IN BASEBALL, (PS, HE TRIED & FAILED) HELL, THE METS FINISHED LAST MORE TIMES THAN FIRST OR CLOSE WITH SEAVER, SO IS HIS TENURE IN FLUSHING, HIS FAILURE?
IT AMAZES ME HOW MANY OF THE LOUTS THAT ATTEMPT TO PASS AS METSIES’ FANS TRULY ARE NYY WANNABES BELOW THE BLUE & ORANGE VENEER.

DON’T WORRY GARY, THERE’S ALWAYS ENOUGH LEMMINGS TO KEEP ALL THE PIPERS EMPLOYED!

I’VE READ FANS THAT TEND TO DEFINE THE STERLING METS AS “JINXED”, SORRY; BUT THAT’S REDICULOUS IMPROPER CONTRUCTION IS NOT A JINX & TOO MANY EGGS IN ONE BASKET IS FOOLHARDY, HAVING NOT LEARNED FROM THE PERDO MARTINEZ FIASCO OF TOO MUCH SALARY INVESTED IN 1 PITCHER WHILE PENORIOUSLY BARELY INVESTING IN THE OTHER ELEVEN(5SP,7BP)
STUBBORNLY THEY CHOSE TO INVEST MORE IN ALTERNATIVE FOOTWEAR THAN ALTERNATIVE PITCHING OPTIONS DURING PEDRO’S INJURY STRUGGLES, REDICULOUSLY THEY ARE REPEATING THE SAME PATTERN SANS FOOTWEAR WITH NO MAJOR PITCHING ALTERNATIVE SECURED TO PICK UP THE SLACK WHEN THE SANTANA SHOULDER BARKS UNEXPECTEDLY. NOW, THERE’S A PLAYER NOT WORTH WHAT HE’S BEING PAID(SANTANA)
TO DATE STERLING HAS PAID A WHOPPING UNINSURED $82.5M FOR A 40-25 CAREER RECORD IN FLUSHING WITH 0 POSTSEASON BERTHS. AT LEAST WITH REYES U CAN OPT FOR INSURANCE, BTW REYES’ ATTENDANCE EFFECT IS DAILY INSTEAD OF 20% OF THE GAMEDAYS.
GUPPY, UNLIKE ANY OTHER PLAYER ON OUR OR ANY OTHER PAYROLL, JOSE REYES IS A UNIQUE ENTITY COMBINING GAMECHANGING LEADOFF CAPABILITY WITH SUPERIOR SS DEFENSE & AN ELRICALLY INSPIRING UPBEAT PERSONALITY THAT INSTANTLY BECOMES AN EMOTIONAL ADRENELIN CREATING LEADER IN ANY CLUBHOUSE WITH AN ACTIVE PULSE. THERE ACTUALLY ISN’T ANY SPECIFIC REYES NEGATIVE OUTSIDE OF THE NORM FOR WHAT HE IS.
DOES HE GET INJURED MORE OFTEN THAN A SOLID BASE TO BASE SHORTSTOP LIKE TULOW OR JETER?
CERTAINLY!
DOES HE GET INJURED MORE OFTEN THAT HIS ROLE OF ELECTRICITY OUT OF #1 HOLE PLAYER?
CERTAINLY NOT!
IF U CHECK HISTORY OR MY PRIOR COMMENTASRY ON THE “MIRAGE” OF MISLEADING STATS AROUND JOSE REYES. U WILL NOTE THESE HISTORICAL STATS ON A % OF CONTRACTED GAMES PLAYED THROUGHOUT THE CAREERS OF OTHER SIGNIFICANT DYNAMIC LINEUP PRESENCE PLAYERS:
HENDERSON 76%
BROCK 84%
RAINES 70%
COLEMAN 65%
FURCAL 76%
ROLLINS 83%
IF U EXAMINE REYES ENTIRE 9 YR CAREER U WILL NOTE HIS PLAYING IN 72% OF THE GAMES HE WAS PAID FOR. THIS MISTAKEN CONCEPT OF A 162G SEASON FROM AN “ELECTRIC” PLAYER IS LUDICROUS & MISPLACED AS A TARGET.
ARGUABLY THE ABOVE LISTED 6 PLAYERS, IN THEIR PRIME, WERE ALL IN A CLASSIFICATION CONSIDERED “ELECTRIC, GAMECHANGER” AS SUCH, SUPRISINGLY, INCL REYES’ 9Y CAREER, THE ABOVE PLAYERS+ REYES REPRESENT 112 YEARS(SEASONS) IN WHICH ONLY 1 COMPLETE 162G SEASON(J-ROLL,’07) WAS COMPLETED AND AN ADDITIONAL MERE 7 SEASONS IN WHICH 159+G WERE PLAYED BY ANY OF THEM. MET FANS LIKELY WILL BE SHOCKED TO BE INFORMED OF THOSE 8 SEASONS OF 159+G PLAYED BY THE ABOVE GALLERY OF STAR PLAYERS 3 BELONG TO JOSE REYES, HIMSELF!

AS THEY SAY IN THE GOTCHA WORLD, U CAN LOOK IT UP!

THERE’S LIKELY NO OTHER PLAYER MORE DESERVING OF THE BIG PAYDAY. PUJOLS? HIS POWER CAN BE CONSTRAINED BY A NON PLAYING JERK LIKE JEFF WHO DESIGNS A BALLFIELD TO CONTAIN HIM; NO BALLFIELD DIMENSIONS WILL CONTAIN ELERCTRIFIERS OF THE CALIBER LISTED IN THIS RETORT! PITCHERS? LIKE SANTANA? ARE U SMOKING ILLERGAL SUVSTANCES TOO OFTEN?

PS, IT CAME TO MY ATTENTION DURING LAST NIGHT’S GAME THAT MY ABOVE LIST LIKELY IGNORES THE MOST CLOSELY SIMILAR TO REYES VET, FELLOW SS, MAURY WILLS WHO DESPITE PLAYING 14 EXCELLENT SEASONS MANAGING TO PLAY IN 85% NEVER MANAGED TO COMPLETE EVEN 1 PLAYING IN MORE THAN 159G AS I STASTED EARLIER A FEAT REYES HAS ALREADY ACCOMPLISHED 3X

The Mets can start with $5/85 and add a 6th vesting year. They can do say $13/15/17/19/21 to help with payroll this year.

If the Wilpons cant sign this guy, they should sell the team. He has earned his money and has earned the right to be a lifetime met. No one ever talks about the fact that he ot hosed last time around and has NEVER complained about his contract. NEVER

Unless you’re getting someone BETTER, your question is STUPID.

STFU Jorge, do us the favor. You don’t know WTF you’re talking about.

Only an idiot doesn’t know how to read yet posts about something not said.

What have the Mets won WITH Reyes?

Who cares if you get 162 games out of a mediocre player. Sure it helps a little in that it prevents you from having to play a less than mediocre player more often but neither has the impact on a game that a very good player does.

When that very good player is on the field he gives you a million more chances to win then a mediocre one does.

If he then spends 6 weeks on the DL he still made much more of an impact on the season than the mediocre guys did in 26 weeks.

Far higher. And because he got hurt twice is no guarantee that he’ll get hurt, or not in subsequent years.

And another thing. Reyes never gets a day off. The only time he’s gotten a day off until September was when he was on the DL or at his Abuela’s funeral. That’s it.

Just before he got hurt the first time he played every inning of every game in sweltering heat in Texas in games that we had 10 run leads in by the 5th inning. Finally in the last game in Detroit (also sweltering heat and blowout victories) he got a breather for the last couple of innings.

Reyes is not a plow horse. He is a throughbred. He needs to be treated as such. Given a breather here and there. Taken out of games in the 5th that are out of hand or well in hand, whether he likes it or not.

Roster composition has played a big role in Reyes being on the field every single day for years now. We’ve never backed him with a guy who could play SS 10 times a year. Closest we came to that was when he broke in an Matsui could have taken SS for a day here and there. Cora? Down in Texas and Detroit the option was Turner at SS. Hmmmm.

If we resign Reyes this year we can play Tejada at SS 10 times a year and that will make a huge difference. Probably result in a 152 game season for Reyes.

Prevention is always preferable to the cure but 130 from Reyes is FAR preferable to 162 from almost any other SS in the game.

Are you bringing in someone better?
The answer is NO!
Are you replacing his productivity?
The answer is NO!

He’s on a pace for 130 games over the last 2 years. What planet are you living on? 130 games of Jose Reyes will beat the living SNOT out of whatever you SHOVE out there for 155 games next year.

Use your FUGGING BRAIN, please. What’s the better option?
A. Jose Reyes for 130 games and a fill-in for the rest
or
B. An average player for 155 games?

If you say B. you’re an IDIOT!

And if you want Jose gone because he’s going to make too much money, you’re essentially saying “B” as your choice.

Who is insane? The STUPID Met fans who don’t want Jose signed to a long term contract.

AS U CONSIDER THAOSE PARTICIPATION RATES IS REYES’ 72% FOR HIS 9YR CAREER THAT MUCH OF A VALID CONSIDERATION?
AS TO 162 GAme IRONMAN SEASONS, MAKE NOTE THAT OUT OF ALL 7 OF THESE GAMECHANGERS OVER A COMBINED 118 SEASONS THERE HAS BEEN ONLY ’1′ COMPLETED 162G EFFORT TURNED IN(J-ROLL) & INCLUDING THAT SOLE ANAMOLY THERE HAVE BEN ONLY 8 SEASONS OF 159G OR MORE AND 3 OF THOSE 8 BELONG TO REYES!!

U WERE SAYING?????

Jose is a great talent, if he can stay on the field.

Loser Mentality is thinking Jose IS the team, he is a part of the TEAM, not THE team…..what have the won with him? WHAT HAVE THE WON WITH JOSE?

He is deserving of a respectable contract, not bank breaking contract. Someone who has averaged 90 games a year over the past three years is NOT worth a huge contract.

We do agree – the ignorance of some Mets fans is truly astounding, thanks for leading the group of insanity.

The dark ages (again) will return to this jinxed organization the minute Jose Reyes leaves. When Piazza began his descent to average player, we sunk. When we let Strawberry walk, that team melted the very next season.

Anyone dumb enough to think draft picks will replace Jose is beyond stupid. You can draft 20 times in the first round over the next 10 years and you won’t select a man like Jose Reyes.

LMAO @ “We can fill holes with Jose’s money” is the excuse. Filling holes with average players, while losing an elite player, is not the solution. It never is. It’s time for the madness to stop. Ricky Henderson went thru 2 years of hamstring problems and recovered to still be a dominant leadoff man. Jose Reyes didn’t hit .300 this year because of his legs. It’s his ability to hit that put him in that elite level average. It’s him maturing as a hitter, especially from the left side of the plate.

Remember one thing. 2009 was supposed to be Jose’s breakout year. Injuries then and in 2010 curtailed that. Don’t be shocked to see Jose hit .300 for a couple of years. You’re looking at a kid coming into his own as a hitter.

Sure you want to see him go elsewhere, because you’re worried about what type of hitter he will be in 2017 and 2018? Seriously?

The ignorance some Met fans display is truly astounding. Some of you deserve to see Jose Reyes go succeed elsewhere for being such narrow-minded, disloyal, foolish fans. There are fans who would CREAM to see Jose play for their team. In NY, we have people willing to let our homegrown star walk because they think he isn’t deserving of a huge contract.

Loser mentality. In life, you pay for value. Jose is top shelf. You want the good stuff, you MUST PAY! PAY JOSE!

AS SUCH I’M SURE THERE ARE A NUMBER OF YOU ALREADY POISED AT THE REPLY BUTTON AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS POSITION, TO DARE ME TO OTHERWISE EXPLAIN REYES’ SUDDEN EXPLOSION OF STASTS THIS SEASON. MERELY I’D POINT OUT THE OBVIOUS TENET THAT WHEN CITI OPENED IN ’09 IT WAS APPARENTLY BUILT FOR A REYES TYPE OF OFFENSIVE FORCE AND THIS SEASON HAS BEEN HIS FIRST OPORTUNITY TO EXPLOIT UPON THAT CONDITION WHICH COMBINED WITH REPLACING HOJO WITH HUDGENS, WHO UPTICKED THE ENTIRE OFFENSE) IT’S A LIKELY CONSIDERATION HUDGENS’ OVERALL EFFECT ON AN ALLSTAR CALIBER LIKE REYES WOULD MANIFEST ITSELF IN EXCESS TO IT’S OVERALL EFFECT ON THE TEAM MEAN PLAYER.
ALDERSON HAS ESTIMATED HIS ’12 PAYROLL @ BET $100-120M AT DIFFERENT TIMES, THOUGH CONSIDERABLY UNDER THE 21st CENTURY MARK FOR NYC TEAMS, IT’S CERTAINLY ENOUGH TO EASILY CONTAIN A COMPETITIVE OFFER FOR RETAINING REYES THAT I’D ESTIMATE TO BE APPROX $22M PER AN ANNUAL EXPENSE EASILY CONTAINED WITHIN THE TARGET PAYROLL PARAMETERS AS WELL AS WITH EACH OF THE 6 CONTRACTS THAT EXTEND BEYOND THE CONCLUSION OF THE ’11 WS. AS FORTUNATELY ALDERSON HAS ALREADY CONTAINED THE FIXED EXTRORDINARY CONTRACT EXPENSES FOR NEXT SEASON @ A MERE 6 CONTRACTS(SANTANA,WRIGHT,BAY,DICKEY,CARASCO,BYRDAK) ALL OF WHICH COMBINED TOTALS APPROX $82M. THAT’S NOT A 25 MAN ROSTER? CONSIDERING IT’S MOST LIKELY THAT THE REMAINING CONTRIBUTORS WILL INCLUDE AT LEAST 13 PLAYERS @ MINIMUM WAGE(EST $425K) I CAN EASILY PREDICT 1B,2B,C,3-SP,4-BP,BENCH) CAN BE ADEQUATELY FILLED FOR A MERE ADDITIONAL 5.525M.
WILL THAT TEAM BE PRONOUNCEDLY BETTER THAN THIS YEAR’S? CONSIDERING THE PROPOSED DIMENSIONAL ADJUSTMENTS WITH FULL SEASONS FROM DAVIS,DUDA,SANTANA(?) IN OVERALL RECORD, PERHAPS SLIGHTLY; BUT OVERALL STATISTICS SHOULD SHOW IMPROVED OFFENSE(POWER STATS) & DEFENSE(INFIELD STABIKLITY) AND DETERIORATED PITCHING STATS(DIMENSIONS), IEEXPERIENCED BACKEND PEN, & UNSTBLE ROTATION DUE TO INDETERMINATE CONTRIBUTION LEVEL FROM SANTANA.

OVERALL DAN, IT’S LIKELY THIS TEAM’S RETURN TO CONTENDER STATUS IS NOT FRLFILLED UNTIL 2014 WHEN THE FUTURE TOP PITCHING STAFF COMPONENTS RIPEN ON THE FARM AS THEY ARE LIKELY THE MOST AFFORDABLE PITCHING OPTIONS WITH THE HIGHEST CEILING, WE CAN IMAGINE, IT REMAINS HIGHLY UNLIKELY THAT ALDERSON’S CHECKBOOK GETS A BALANCE BOOST UNTIL BOTH SANTANA & BAY ARE NO LONGER DRAWING DOWN UPON IT COINCIDING WITH THE ARRIVALS OF HARVEY,FAMILIA,WHEELER, GORSKI, et al.

WHILE THE SWORD OF PICARD HOVERS OVER THE STERLING NECKS IT IS UNLIKELY SPENDING FAUCETS WILL BE INCREASED PERCEPTIBLY
MOST ANALYSTS FAIL TO CONSIDER THE PRESENT NYM PAYROLL INCLUDES $11M CURENTLY ALLOCATED TO JOSE MAKING A JUMP TO 22 LESS PAINFUL THAN THE TYPICAL OUTSIDE F/A ADDITION. IS 22M REASONABLE? CONSIDERING THE TULOWITZKI CONTRACT, I’D CONSIDER IT A FAIR & JUSTIFIED EXPENDATURE FOR 3 MORE YRS OF A REYES’ PRIME PRODUCTION PERIOD.
NB. THE “IRONMAN 162 BAR IS LIKELY MORE & MORE UNATAINABLE AS TEAMS BECOME MUCH MORE VESTED IN ENSURING THE PLAYER’S HEALTH & AS MEDICAL EXPERTS WEILD MORE POWER THAN RVER BEFORE.

The money saved in not resigning Jose could be spent on improving the team via free agency and trades. With only a few games left we may be seeing the end of the Reyes and Wright era in Mets uniforms. The brain trust has to know that until the pitching is greatly improved we are not going to overtake the Phillies, Braves, or even the Nationals. Maybe the answer is to really shake up the team by trading Wright and letting Jose go elsewhere before overpaying to keep him. For sure, Jose is a great player when he is healthy but how much is a thoroubred race horse who comes up lame once a year or more?