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2011
Mets Will Meet Reyes When He’s Done Shopping
An article by Hojo's Mojo
Updated 9:00 PM
* Jerry Crasnick of ESPN talked to a Marlins official who confirmed that his team has talked with free-agent SS Jose Reyes. According to Crasnick, the Marlins are also speaking to Prince Fielder and Albert Pujols.
It seems that they are intent on getting one of those big names to help showcase their new ballpark.
* Jon Heyman of SI.com says the Mets have asked Reyes’ agents what his “price” would be, to which they got no response; the Mets then told them to come back when “they’re done shopping.”
* The Miami Herald reports that the Marlins are so enamored with All-Star shortstop Jose Reyes that they were in contact with the player at 12:01 a.m. Thursday, the moment the free agent signing period could begin. ”The Marlins love him,” according to one source with knowledge of the team’s interest.
* If the Marlins were able to sign the Mets shortstop, it would necessitate a position change for Hanley Ramirez, something he said in September that he would welcome and accept. “It would be nice to play next to him,” Ramirez said at the time. “He’s an energy guy.”
The Marlins will have plenty of excess revenue in 2012 and they are eager to spend it.
Original Post 2:10 PM
According to WFAN’s Mike Francesa, Jose Reyes has received an offer from the Miami Marlins, and he and his agent Peter Greenberg will visit with Marlins officials this week.
Breaking story…
I’ll have more info up as I get it, but here we go, it was only a matter of time until teams began wining and dining Reyes.
I expect the Washington Nationals, Milwaukee Brewers and Detroit Tigers to court Reyes very soon as well and wouldn’t besurprised if they’ve all reached out to him already.
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I still think if he leaves NY that Florida is the best place for him. But that organization doesn’t exactly have their (blank) together.
New marketing plan including new logo, new stadium, new manager, new star? Move Hanley over to 3B or 2B?
It makes sense.
But this also helps the Mets because they need to determine his market value and try and gauge what other teams have thrown out there. The Mets have worked with Greenberg before so this isn’t some new relationship.
Yeah it helps the Mets alright…
Once a number is out they can go on record saying they can’t pay that much and get what they always wanted a Jose Reyes Kiss off!
Exactly correct. Unfortunately, Jose’ is history here and the team is headed rapidly for the basement.
the marlins.. a small market team will outbid a team in the LARGEST MARKET.. lol.. wow, at this point what else can you say other than good bye reyes?? determined the value of a superstar caliber SS?? the mets shouldn’t even had been in this position if moneyball sandy wasn’t the GM.
First of all, the Marlins are a mid-market team. Second of all, I wasn’t aware you knew the deal they offered Reyes. What was it? Break the story for us.
6 YEARS AND 110 MILLION
Then they should outbid the Mets. 6 Years is too long for that kind of guaranteed money for Reyes. If the Marlins want to make a marketing splash now to introduce their new stadium and logo, then that’s on them, but it’s not a good baseball decision.
right, everything sandy alderson is doing in your opinion is a good baseball decision, i am lying about that contract. but you think is not a good baseball decision to sign reyes to a 5 or 6 year deal? ocourse not, you’re the guy advocating for the mets to sign CHRIS YOUNG back… fans like you ruin baseball and blogs you know.. is ok to just suck big time and see if the kids pan out.. how’s that working out for the pirates since 1993???
No, more lies/made up “facts.” Five years is ok with me. I’d prefer four and an option. It could even be an easy option, but if it had to be five to get him back, that’s fine. And no matter how you slice it, Chris Young on a minor league deal is a good baseball decision.
chris young on a minor lrague deal is a good baseball decision???? based on what??? please enlighten us based on what?? his 2 good starts with the mets!?
The fact that he’s a very good pitcher, with a huge injury risk. So sign him to a minor league contract so he can pitch on the Mets if he’s healthy, but cost them nothing if he’s not. Do you know what a minor-league deal is?
X please stop ruining baseball and blogs. LMFAO…
Sorry…
Alex68
Couldn’t agree more with you……………….
It’s insane,
Let’s see if Chris Young’s career is not over first – then let’s talk.
Um, last year the Marlins were 24th in payroll and spent less than $60mil. I’d say that $70-$100mil qualifies a team as mid-market.
06, 08 and 09 the Marlins spent the least of any MLB team, in 07 they had the 2nd lowest payroll.
They are mid-market with a cheap owner. They trade off with Atlanta as the 16th or 17th biggest (13th or 14th smallest) market. They payroll is something else entirely.
OK, then we are getting outbid by a mid-market team with a cheep owner. (who already has a SS).
That doesn’t sit any better with me.
I don’t see where the determination that the Mets are getting outbid is coming from. Only one team has made him an offer and no one knows what it is yet.
Because of Sandy not just taking care of Reyes once the season ended. Because of all the “leaks” from Sandy’s office that the Mets don’t want him or can’t afford him.
So let me readjust my statement…
A mid-market team with a cheep owner, who already has a SS, is coming up with the money to try to sign the 2nd best SS in baseball (and the best in Mets history) while our GM, who is running a team in the top market in baseball, is unable to stop being cheep and resign our best player.
If Sandy refuses to top a 4 year, $80 million offer, then I’ll agree with you. Let’s wait to see what other teams offer, what the Mes offer and what he eventually signs for. If the Mets offer him 5 years for $120 million and someone else offer him 7 years for $150 million, would you still feel this way?
sandy alderson is not here to win and it will show once reyes signs with another team.. guys, beware, be prepared to concede reyes going to another team.. that is a fact. and if is the marlins, we will not get 2 picks, as the marlins #1 is protected.. just a #2.. even more pathetic
“Going to another team” is such a broad statement. Would you be mad at Sandy if Reyes signs somewhere for 7/$150?
is all about the money isn’t it??! again, if you’re gonna make a mistake, make a mistake with a homegrown talent, who’s been the best player the franchise has EVER had. again, 7/150 is carzy jack, but i will be mad if it turns out to be truth alderson and co will open the bid at 4/65 as allegedly reported. is a slap in reyes face and the fans as well.
Why is a stupid, franchise crippling contract OK when its a home grown player? If anything, that is even dumber since you should have seen the decline coming.
Baseball is a business. Yes, a very large portion of it is about the money.
the decline coming!?!? didn’t jose reyes just won a batting title? isn’t reyes 28 years old? am i missing something here?
When’s the last time Reyes played a DL-free season? You think players get healthier and better as they age?
Why should a good and fair contract be crippling to this team?
I say 4 years with 2 options for a total of $120mil should be easily done.
But even if Jose gets hurt, that contract shouldn’t be crippling, yeah, it would hurt but large market teams can afford to make risks and not have it completely crush them. Did the Yanks, Phils, Braves and Red Sox become crippled when they handed out bad deals? (yes, they all have had bad deals)
You have to spend money to get people watching. especially in NY. No on field talent, no home grown star to love, no chance to win, then SH!T!F!ELD is going to get very empty.
I wouldn’t be reacting this way if Sandy has giving me any indication that he’s not just slashing payroll. If he said that Reyes got overpriced for what they wanted to sell and then Sandy went and improved the team with the money reserved for Reyes, then maybe I’d be in a better mood. But Sandy has said that he’s not going to do that. It’s either $110mil with Reyes or less than $100mil without Reyes.
I hope I’m wrong, but I just have a very bad feeling about this.
usfm,
the CORE salutes you.. i’ve been saying the same thing, but i get called a hater for it. i had a gut feeling that this man’s plans were to help the wilpons in their financial mess and bolt. not to create a winner here in NY. is obvious from all his press conf, all he talks about is payroll, payroll, reduce payroll, flexibility in the payroll. payroll to be around this amount or that amount, we can’t afford to have guys making $15 million or more etc..
I wouldn’t mind four years with two option for that price. If his options vest, that means he’s earned it, so that’s not terrible. But to go ahead and make up your mind about what will or won’t happen this early in the off season when Reyes has only recieved one secret contract offer is ludicrous, if you ask me.
“Why should a good and fair contract be crippling to this team?”
It shouldn’t. The fear is Reyes getting a Crawford type deal, which is in no way a good deal.
“I say 4 years with 2 options for a total of $120mil should be easily done.”
Nifty, go sell it to Reyes. Then again, a lot of people around here claim $20 million/year is a slap in the face.
“But even if Jose gets hurt, that contract shouldn’t be crippling, yeah, it would hurt but large market teams can afford to make risks and not have it completely crush them.”
The problem is, the Mets don’t have the foundation for that yet.
” Did the Yanks, Phils, Braves and Red Sox become crippled when they handed out bad deals? (yes, they all have had bad deals)”
Because they all did the leg work to make teams that could handle bad deals. Look at the work Gene Michael, Dan Duquette and Pat Gillick did for the Yankees, Red Sox and Phillies.
It doesn’t happen overnight and you need mature adults making tough decisions.
“I don’t see where the determination that the Mets are getting outbid is coming from”
Simple to see really…
Our bid was NOTHING! NO BID!
Their bid was SOMETHING! More than ours!
We were OUTBID for Reyes!
Because SOMETHING is more than NOTHING!
And we offered NOTHING because some one thinks making ANY bid is bidding against yourself!
And now Reyes has a number to come back to the Mets with. If it is reasonable, we can make a counter offer. If it s a crazy Crawford like deal, we can send him on his way with a hearty thanks.
We are not making ANY counter offer Sandy doesn’t want him!
Whatever offer Reyes comes back to Sandy will be called out of our budget good luck where you go!
Adios Muchacho!
And whatever number Reyes says Sandy will say to the press Well he wanted a few mil more or more years than we were prepared to offer (which is an offer they NEVER will make!)
You know, I’m just going to let you ramble on like a lunatic, repeating the same debunked ideas over and over.
Yep and when Reyes signs elsewhere we will all know who was right and who was rambling!
When we lose MORE games next year we will see whose plan caused it and who agreed with it…
When Sandy gets fired without a WS win we will get rid of ALL the rambling idiots around here because they will be discredited and unable to face the musis of the I TOLD YOU SO!
Tick Tock Tick Tock!
Time for you to face the facts, just because we play in a large market it doesnt mean we operate as a large market team. We have small market sandy here now.
Oh and by the way, according to our buddy Cerrone, Reyes prefers Miami because of the latin music scene that he loves. Remember it was Cerrone who predicted that teams would make offers to Reyes once free agency started. Looks like he was spot on!
I’m really liking Sandy less and less the more i think about it. He hasn’t done anything to improve this team. His best moves are dumping Castillo and Perez. Then around the All Star Break, he gave up on the season and traded our best hitter and our best reliever.
Now he’s telling us that we have to get rid of Reyes and Wright and wait until 2014 until we can compete?
I’m sorry, but a sub$100 mil payroll and compete once every five years does not cut it. We should easily be able to carry a $120 mil payroll and be completive every year.
I’m sick of everyone blindly believing that Sandy is so smart and he’ll “Moneyball” us into winning.
It’s a line of BS i’ve never seen before in all of my life as a Mets fan. Even during the dark days of the early 80s and late 70s at the very least there was an attempt to have the best off season you can possibly have no matter what your resources are and no matter what your roster was going to be. Even if we knew they weren’t go to be good the best face was always put forward and they ALWAYS tried to put together the best team the possibly could even if we knew they were going to stink.
And I’m sorry but I have a VERY hard time accepting a GM can not attempt to have the best off season they can with whatever financial resources you are allotted no matter what the amount is in this day and age as well as in the past. It’s always, always, always about being as competitive as you possibly can be.
This BS that they call moneyball or whatever the hell they want to call it is just that – BULLSHlT!
Sorry for the strong language but this type of belief system being laid on the fans deserves that type of response.
How DARE this GM give up. How DARE this GM not even attempt to compete. How DARE this GM come to New York City to do your best to destroy this team just because you THINK they can’t compete as if the future is guaranteed.
All this IDIOT has done since coming here is release Castillo & Perez, which ANYBODY would have done and then proceed to dismantle this team piece by piece starting with the damned competitive lineup he inherited in the first place.
My God if any GM inherited the same type of roster in the late 70s or early 80s that Sandy Alderson inherited last season there NO DOUBT IN MY MIND would have been attempt to compete with your division rivals no matter how much money was in the budget.
Sandy Alderson you are a FRAUD in the worst way and good luck driving all the fans away for this team because that’s exactly what you’re doing. You are LOSING money for this organization, not making money.
agy friend.. i’ve said it all along as was attcked and made fun of by the moneyballers, NOW they’re accepting the fact that this man is not here to build a winner, just to moneyball us to death and shred payroll for the wilpons.
Omar made a ton of mistakes…but he did turn a losing team with aging vets and no farm system into winners and took them to the NLCS in two years. Omar did it by investing in good players, not by shopping in the scratch and dent bin hopping for one year bargain.
And it’s not like Omar did nothing more than spend money and inflate the pay roll…it wasn’t until 08 that his payrolls jumped into the “Big Spenders” arena.
Injuries derailed the 06-09 seasons, some you could easily see coming, others you couldn’t. But Omar, despite his inability to handle the media, injuries and promoting young talent properly, tried to win every year.
Omar, sadly left this team in much better shape (farm system included) than how he got it.
What has Sandy tried other than cutting money and giving up on the 2011-2013 seasons.
What has Sandy tried other than cutting money and giving up on the 2011-2013 seasons”
NOTHING.
Wow, if this were to come to fruition, I would have to say that the Marlins would be the second best team in the NL East behind the Phillies. The Mets would certainly be last and Bryce Harper and Stephen Strasburg might ensure the Mets will be bottom feeders in the NL East for the next 10 years. Is it 2021 yet?
I guess the Marlins have no trouble Bidding against themselves! LOL
LOL, how pathetic is this francvhise with that guy leading it??/ oh my god!!!! but hey, we get 2 draft pi…. ohhh, wait… that is right… no 1st round draft pick since the marlins pick is protected.. yikes!
Great plans of Mice and Menches! LOL
Yep we get a WHOLE 2nd Rounder if reyes signs with them!
Ok u poor mets dont know that hanley and reyes are best friends,marlins owner is not cheap he just couldnt spend money becuz his team playd in a football stadium own by a football team now he has his own stadium his own parking lots to make money and food stands,marlins payroll last year was 58 million next year it will be 90 to 95 million,Cespedes is going to be the marlins center fielder marlins are the front runner ahead of the yankees to pick up the cuban bomber,who wouldnt wana live on south beach,MIAMI MARLINS WILL BE A FORCE NEXT YEAR p.s. They allso have Mike Stanton sucks to be a mets fan
so what, they have stanton, reyes, hansley, the cuban guy cespede, we have wheeler and brandon nimmo..
The “and brandon nimmo” made me literally lol. Thank you Alex68!
Yes, the Marlins will increase their payroll…for a year or 2. Loria has treated that team like an ATM machine for almost 10 years now. You think another revenue flow will change that? And what happens when all those guys like Johnson and Stanton become arbitration eligible or approach free agency? Same thing that happened after 2003, only without the World Series trophy.
So, ya, Marlins fans. Tell yourselves Loria means it this time.
i’ll bet the marlins will finish with a better record than the mets this upcoming year… and quit crying about what will happen to johnson and stanton when they become FA, isn’t the same thing happening here under sandy alderson’s watch!?!? a homegrown talent becomes a FA and he’s prepared to let him walk? and at least, the marlins have won a WS. the mets haven’t in god knows how long it will be till we at least are over 500
Marlins just may finish next year with a better record than the Mets.
“happening here under sandy alderson’s watch!?!? ”
Not yet, but even if it does, it’s just temporary. the Marlins are all about selling off budding stars.
“and at least, the marlins have won a WS. the mets haven’t in god knows how long it will be till we at least are over 500″
Ya, the Mets haven’t won in a long time, but you seem to have a problem reevaluating doing the same thing over and over.
What I think I love most about this story is it’s “who gives a ” factor.
This is going to happen non-stop with Reyes and hysterical Mets fans. News flash friends, he’s going to have lots of conversations with lots of teams. It doesn’t mean he’s going to sign with them and it doesn’t mean Alderson is driving him to his interview.
I am confident that if Reyes doesn’t sign a dumb contract that he will be a Met. I’m saying max 5 yr with some sort of option, and $100mil max. That’s MORE than fair for Reyes. Anything more, I’m not going to sob and pout about.
I realize that makes me an enemy to some, but you can’t control things like this. If Jose Reyes gets a 7 year 120 mil offer, then adios Jose, thanks for the memories and its time to hand the ball to Ruben Tejada.
HYSTERICAL mets fans?? you mean fans who don’t want reyes to leave and pray alderson does his job and put a contending team on the field?!?
No one WANTS Reyes to leave. That’s what the hysterical Mets fans want to think.
Except Maybe Sandy Alderson who didn’t even TRY to make an offer when he was the ONLY one who could!
Why didn’t Greenburg give a number when asked?
Because he didn’t want to bid against himself!
ROFLMAO!
No I mean fans who act as though the world is ending simply because Jose Reyes is having a discussion with another team.
Or the fans who are assuming just because he’s discussing things with the Marlins that means he’s automatically there, so they say things like “so what, they have stanton, reyes, hansley, the cuban guy cespede, we have wheeler and brandon nimmo..”
Or the same fans who act like the Mets have been super successful for the past 25 years and Alderson is here to screw it all up.
Three of our BEST players from last year are having discussions with other teams!
K-Rod, Beltran and now Reyes!
Why is that and who let them go?
Because closers are over priced hype players that are useles to a team struggling o make .500
Because as good as Beltran is, the team couldn’t just let him walk for nothing.
Because Reyes decided not to let his agnet talk to Alderson during the season
Yeah yet Sandy is going to buy on in FA this year because they are just that useless to an under .500 team….Don’t you read what your GuRu has said?
They DID let Beltran walk for nothing, Wheeler is not an MLB player yet and there is no proof he ever will be!
Reyes decided to let his agent talk to Sandy in the OFFSEASON TWO YEARS RUNNING!…SANDY REFUSED!
Definitely no proof that Wheeler will ever pan out but at the same time you list guys like Harvey,Familia,Lagares,Flores,Havens and Mejia as guys Sandy has to work with.You can put that list of players in the same category.Guys with no proof they will ever be MLB players.
If only you practice what you preach.
Well Joe,
Your side is the one who keeps saying we have NO ONE in the MiL and if those guys are NOTHING because they haven’t played an MLB game then so is Wheeler NOTHING!
I suggest your side pick an opinion and stick to it.
Either Wheeler is something and so are all the other guys we have to work with meaning no need to clean house and hoard draft picks or
They are nothing, Wheeler is nothing and we should have kept K-Rod and Baltran to try to go for the Wildcard we were out 7.5 games from and was won by a team that was 10 games out of it!
Take your pick, Pick a standard and then maybe we can stop with the bullshit that we have no one in the Minors or we DO and are in a position to play to WIN in the next two years!
Would you rather Beltran have been traded for say, Alex Rios? Perhaps the worst baseball player in the league this season, but hey, he was a major leaguer.
I would rather we didn’t trade Beltran at all and went after something that could make up 7.5 games on the Wildcard the way the cardinals made up 10 games in the same wild card with much less time to do so!
My point isn’t what we got for Beltran and you know that!
My point is that for months now the SELLERS have been saying we have nothing in the MiL system to work with and need to trade off talent to get some,
When the names we HAVE are mentioned they are claimed to be WORTHLESS yet a guy who is 18 and another who is in A ball is considered CAN’T MISS ALL STARS!
WHy because w etraded Beltran to get it?
If what we have is not going to get a chance to prove themselves and can be called worthless then why should Wheeler get an EXEMPTION from that stupid ignorant standard?
Please show me where anybody from MMO said those guys you listed are worthless.Calling them serviceable but non impact players is not saying they’re worthless.
Changing peoples words is an age old MMO strategy to divert the issue and avoid having an adult like discussion on the pros and cons of your point.
Metsie recently claimed that I stated the NYY were the worst team in baseball over the last 25 years because I didn’t agree with a few of their baseball decisions.
Minaya did an average to good job in the minors during his tenure here but so did most teams during that period. Considering what he started with in 2005, the farm should have taken on a much larger part of the budget, attention and focus but it didn’t.
SIX first and 2nd round picks squandered on RIGHT NOW, Four more thrown down the toilet all while hunting the extremely rare, good playing, past their prime former All Star and then counting on one dimensional players to fill in and take over where ever needed even if that takes learning a new position when they get up here.
I like Duda’s chances at the plate at least as much as anyone else’s and if he were to hit .300 with 30 HR’s, it wouldn’t shock me at all, but if he were to that, it would also accompany station to station base running and really poor defense. It would be worth it for sure but at the same time the sum is much less than what it first appears. Same with Thole. No one can even score from 2nd on a base hit because of how shallow he’s played. Now if that came with great D, or good D and good base running that would be one thing, but it doesn’t.
These are the guys Metsie was crowing about as products of a terrific farm system and yet our competitors in the NL East are putting forward their new players resume’s for ROY. Guys like Espinosa and Freeman taken in the 2nd round or Kimbrel and Worley from the 3rd round while we’re reduced to sifting through the scrap heap for catchers, closers, starting pitchers and trying to FIND positions in which to fit one dimensional guys into.
If your going to use your best draft picks on other teams former All Stars then it is absolutely imperative that you fully and properly develop your more one dimensional types so that they are at least average in one of the categories that was the reason they were available in the 5th-13th round.
That doesn’t happen when they all play 1B in the minors and then are expected to learn on the job up here. The sum is less than the individual parts and that is what’s meant by serviceable.
Serviceable does not mean useless. What it does mean is less than ideal which is what our farm system has been producing for the last two decades. Basically our high draft choices have either busted or been serviceable with a couple of exceptions. Not very different from our results in the free agent market when you stop and think about it.
Two decades that include ELEVEN losing seasons, and that’s WITH the largest payroll in the NL.
Well, guess old habits never changed, t aggee comes back, and the second guessing continues.. we should name you captain hindsight, and you 3 loyal companions names are could’ve, would’ve and should’ve… ugh
Servicable?
Buchholz was servicable and he was WORTHLESS!
Point is you guys claim you want to see a YOUTH movement and a new CORE but whenever someone suggests those names to be used you guys say they aren’t good enough!
Well they are BETTER and CLOSER to MLB ready than Wheeler is!
well, sandy alderson IS screwing it up. wouldn’t you agree?!!? also, out of the last 25 years we haven’t won, at least those teams’ gms have tried to build winners and have created playoffs caliber teams, alderson is not even trying anymore
Oh, who did Reyes sign with? What was the deal?
i’ll tell you who i am positive he will not sign with is the mets. and the deal will be because they mets “couldn’t match it”…
didn’t answer me
what’s the question? who he signed with? i just gave you an even better answer. i told you who he won’t.
So, you’re hysterical for no reason then.
“According to WFAN’s Mike Francesa,”
Ya, that’s a great start right there.
It’s already been confirmed by Heyman, Crasnick, Olney, Rosenthal. You are such a dbag. So now you shoot the messenger?
Confirmed or broken? Francesa stopped being a real journalist a long time ago. He loves taking other people’s news and passing it as his.
You’re an idiot with an agenda.
Ya, I want an end to crappy reporting and fake hysteria meant to get fans foaming at the mouth for no real reason.
I’m such a bastard.
Yeah we all know the only reliable source of info you respect is whatever Jessup says!
No, I respect credible reporters who aren’t trying to fanbait us.
No wonder you Yankee fans trying to bring the place down line up like circus seals for him.
Yawn.
How is this even a breaking story? Did Met fans NOT think he was going to be courted by at least half a dozen teams?
Get back to me when he signs somewhere – and if it’s not the Mets – what the Mets final offer was.
THAT’s what I’m interested in knowing. I don’t really care who is wining and dining him right now because I have to figure it will be all teams who are going to bid for his services.
And for the record, I’m in the camp of hoping he resigns here.
Thats just it Srt…
The Mets are never going to MAKE an offer.
They are goping to wait till Reyes comes to them with his best offer and then say Sorry too much for us.
Then when the press asks Slashy will say we were prepared to pay X Mil less or X Years less buthe got more so we decided to move on without him!
Truth is he doesn’t want Reyes back at all!
We’ll know soon enough if your scenario of what you believe is going to happen, does.
Umm why wouldn’t a Mets site cover and track any news on the Jose Reyes situation? You act somewhat shocked that a Mets blog would track the news of the only batting champion in franchise history who is on the verge of becoming an ex-Met. That the Marlins made him an offer is certainly news and something I as a fan would want to know about.
They didn’t make an offer. They met with him.
There is no real news until he signs somewhere. Everything else is just to rile people up for no reason.
According to WFAN’s Mike Francesa, Jose Reyes has received an offer from the Miami Marlins.
Judging by the comments on this thread, you’re the only one riled up. After your certain reply to me, 20 of the 80 comments here are yours.
Don’t believe I said anything about not tracking Reyes’ signing rumors.
Just commenting on how this is some sort of breaking story or surprise to anyone.
Maybe I’m taking that for granted and this IS a surprise to some Met fans.
We’ll be hearing about several more of these before all is said and done, IMO.
Call me when the Mets dont suck. Then I will care if they sign Reyes or not.
I think Met fans are fretting over something out of our control. I would like to drive a Mercedes but my budget dictates a Honda. Reyes is a Mercedes and the Mets are a Honda.
Asking him his price is an insult…offer him what you believe he is worth. And, saying they will talk to him when he is done shopping is another insult. Might as well just man up and say they have no plans to sign Reyes unless he will accept 3 years at around $10 million per.
matt, well said… again, not only sandy passed on the opportunity to extend reyes last offseason because he wanted to evaluate, but he didn’t make an offer during the period to which he was only allowed to negotiate with him, and NOW he’s gonna wait till other teams WOWED reyes to pitch an offer?? what kind of GM is this man!?!?
everybody should stop dreaming alderson IS NOT HERE TO IMPROVE THE TEAM.THIS TEAM IS ONLY GOING TO GET WORSE OVER THE NEXT 5 YEARS.
So I’m just wondering – if Reyes signs with the Marlins, what draft picks do we get? Will it just be to in the 1st round sup?
Because the Marlins finished in the bottom half, isn’t their first round pick be protected?
Thanks, from New Zealand’s only Mets fan.
If it’s the Marlins we get a sandwich pick between the first and 2nd round plus Florida’s 2nd rounder…
Basically two sub 30th pick second rounders for Reyes!