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2011
Reyes Agrees To Six-Year, $102M Deal With Marlins
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Pending a routine physical, Jose Reyes will become the Miami Marlins’ new shortstop. Reyes and the Marlins agreed to terms on a six-year deal that will reportedly pay him $102 million, the largest contract the Marlins have ever given to a player.
“Done deal,” said a source with knowledge of the agreement.
Reyes, the National League batting champ last season with a .337 average with the Mets, agreed to join the Marlins after the team sweetened their initial offer to an amount he couldn’t refuse.
The Marlins have been courting Reyes since one minute after midnight on Nov. 3, the first time free agents could start talking to other teams.
Incumbent shortstop Hanley Ramirez will move to third base to accommodate Reyes. The Marlins have no intention of trading Ramirez.
Reyes’ contract includes a seventh-year team option with a buyout of $4 million, a source said.
They’re expected to have a total payroll to close to $100 million next season, a source said.
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I know people don’t want to hear it but at the end of the day the Marlins out bid themselves, and time and time again that proves to be a bad move.
I wish Reyes luck, I loved watching him play but he’s not going to be worth that contract. If through 6 years he wins Miami a title and doesn’t miss time and plays to his 2011 #s, then I’ll admit I am wrong. I just truly don’t believe that will happen.
Don’t worry – Reyes won’t pass the physical!
Are you for real…. Between 16-17 mil a year for a 28 year old. Do the math. the Marlins saved a bidding war this week.
How do we expect a small market team like the New York Mets to compete with the rest of baseball at these prices?
It has gotten ridiculous, even insignificant players are signing 2 year deals for $4-6 mil per year.
Until the financial situation improves or a new ownership takes over, brace yourself for them basically not to compete.
There’s your Alderson for you, never even met with him or made an offer. What you expect from a GM with seven straight losing seasons. Certainly not a winning season.
K Maxx: If the Cubs turn it around will you give Theo Epstein credit?
I bet you would
Therefore your “GM with seven straight losing seasons. Certainly not a winning season.”
Is null and void
The recent trend has been free agents are making hugh money, last season and now this season. It shouldnt have been that hard for Alderson to make that determination mid-season. Beltran fetched us Zach Wheeler..what would we have gotten for Reyes ?? now we get 3rd round pick, nice work..The Wilpons probably just popped one of their better bottles and are celebrating that the Marlins upped their offer and they can reduce payroll without them looking bad to the masses. Im boycotting Citi Field until furthur notice, Wilpons don’t get a penny of my money at stadium..
I mean he made $13million last year, he 28 years old prime of career, a free agent, what do you think he’s going to make, ???? The fact that its only $18mm blow my mind, i was thinking 22-23mill….wont pay franchise player what a joke
“Only $18million” is a funny thing to say
Ichiro
Miggy
Halladay
AGone
Tex
Johan
Sabathia
Mauer (maybe?) health…
Cliff Lee
Howard
ARod
_____________
Werth
Wells
Hunter
Zambrano
Crawford
Guys making $18mil+. Top tier I’d say aren’t mistakes, bottom half are. Reyes isn’t in a production class with the guys in the top half sorry. He’s not Arod, AGone, Tex, Miggy or Howard and he certainly wasn’t Ichiro from 2008-next year.
Sorry he isn’t worth that money. For everybody that says he is, they are speaking with their heart and not mind.
If the Mets signed a guy who was on the DL 7 times, had leg injuries, had his best year during his walk year for that contract, people would be angry as hell. It’s only because it’s Reyes that “we” feel he’s worth it.
No problem then, when they pay someone else $18million then i’ll go to Citi Field but to let go of 28 year old SS then they drafted and played for them his enitre career, to let him go to a reasonable contract, $18 mill per is BEYOND REASONABLE for a 28 year free agent that had Reyes’s career, i find ridiculous — ok, Alderson/Wilpon you werent going to pay him 6yr/$18mill then TRADE HIM, even if he was on the DL at trade deadline they couldve got someone hugh in return, trade him in April..I mean Cap went for 5 mill what are we going to sign 3 or 4 marginal players in his stead, yea awesome ..Crawford went for $140 mill, guys are going for alot free agency, thats reality, payrolls will be racheted up, Reyes contract is going to look cheap in a couple of years …
Name a SS ether than Reyes, Tulo…oh yeah “big market” Colorado has him locked up. Who else? Hanley, oh no, he’s a 3B now. Jose plays a premium position and is in his prime. To not resign him is because we’re broke. Jose at 130 games and Tejada at 32, is better than Tejada at 162.
ether = better.
So angry I’m just rambling.
Agree hank, and with Tejada we had almost the perfect situation as we have a very suitable backup if Reyes did have a DL stint !! What a JOKE Mets have officially become tonight folks. Ill still watch the Mets on the Wilpons intellectual property worth over a $1 billion, SNY(yea poor poor Wilpons right) but no way im spending a penny at Citi Field. No client is taking me there, no $10 beers on top of high priced tixs..commence BOYCOTT
Reyes and Tejada would have been a FANTASTIC DP combo up the middle. And Tejada would be still young enough to slide over to SS at the end of 6 years and who knows..maybe a less mobile Jose Reyes could move back to 2B. You never know because it’s always just about winning baseball games and nothing makes more money than that.
If you can’t build with that middle infield than I don’t know what to tell you.
Well Sandy now has 80 million to play with, let’s see how his baseball decision making plays out now. He’s supposed to be smart right? He was arrogant w/the reporters even though that 70 million dollar loss he passed the buck on was partly his fault…let’s see what he does now.
- He should be able to secure some young healthy major league ready starting pitching now.
- Can he pull off some clever trades? If not then maybe he can consult with some previous Mets GMs
Well Jason Bay will be making 16Mil…..I think Reyes is worth it…and by the way he is coming into his prime years and coming off his best season
Hate to break it to you but the market says what a guy ius worth, not your unilateral declaration. And you need a new calculator because he’s not making 18 mil nor 17 mil Why do Alderson loyalists have to lie to defensd hi,m? Is it because he has lied since he came to the city morgue?
Reyes started July hurt with a hamstring injury. They weren’t getting a good return for him.
AMen and ditto to all you said … weve become a small market team … NEW YORK!
Ken Rosenthal reporting live on MLBNetwork now that Reyes can sign tonight!
Hot Stove is on live right now
#Mets never even got fonal courtesy call, can confirm #Marlins Reyes done at 6-106M. Joel Sherman
Maybe it’s because they never made him an offer. Funny you make Reyes a villain for signing with a team that courted him while you defend our leadership that ignored him.
Hank: I can name only 1 homegrown player to ever leave his team for a $100+ million deal and have the fans blame everybody and give a complete pass to the player.
Jose Reyes.
Why is that?
I’m not saying he’s the only one to blame but if he wanted to be a Met he could have been one. He knew they had limitations and he chose $ over being a Met. At the end of the day, that is what happened.
Every other player would get boo’d when they come back to their home team, but not Reyes… he gets a pass. Why?
He goes from an under appreciated player by some to an overpaid player. That’s what it comes down to with me. Am I happy the Wilpons are struggling? No. But there is nothing I can do about it right now.
when a player choses money over loyalty the other team usually at least tries and Jose prob also realized that they want to win in miami. woulda done same thing
I’m not saying he’s totally to blame. There are SO MANY people in this entire situation to blame.
I am saying it SEEMS everybody who wants to be mad about this, gives the player who KNEW he was going to price his homegrown team out a pass.
Mostly that never, ever is the fan sentiment here.
If the Mets said “we could offer 100mil/6yr” people would have been mad at them still.
I’m sorry but I can’t blame Reyes. I’m not sure what line of work you’re in, but if someone else offered you a raise and better long term flexibility you take it.
6 years and $106M is what $17.6M a year?? For the New York Mets? You don’t let your franchise SS go, much less to a division rival. The same year Perez, Castillo, Beltran, and K-Rod come off the books. The issue isn’t Reyes. The issue is ownership letting the team go in the tank because ether can’t afford to keep players.
I love this team, but I hate that we’re going in the tank. And that’s the issue. The money issues, the years of frustration, and even the lies…it’s all leading our team to the tanker.
So Hank if you were a Mariners fan you wouldn’t have boo’d ARod? If Pujols or Prince sign with the Cubs and you were a fan of those teams you wouldn’t boo him?
Asking if I will boo a Marlin when he comes to play against my team is easy. Yes I will boo Reyes because he plays for another team. But because I care about the Mets more, I am more angry that our owners are taking us downhill and fast. We are the 5th best team in our division. Sorry if that makes me angry at our owners who got us here.
stability not “flexibility”
The Mets didn’t deserve a courtey call. The Mets had no interest in negotiating. Why would you call them? Its pathetic spin. “You can fool some of the people all of the time” That number has shrunk drastically last night.
I understand the anger when people hear “no offer made” but I do think you need to be careful. An official formal offer is an offer sheet sent to an agent. Alderson said they spoke with Greenberg. They didn’t talk about what they would eat for breakfast tomorrow. Teams express where they’d like to see a player sign for, doesn’t mean an “offer” is made or there was no interest.
“Sandy said he had several conversations with Reyes’ agents over the last 72 hours. Reyes’ agents knew where the Mets stood, and Sandy indicated he knew where Reyes’ agents stood in terms of what they were looking for in a contract. He had an idea “things were moving” with the Marlins.”
An “offer” wasn’t made but enough dialog occurred.
Quoting a liar like Alderson does not build your case.
This is BS,
If I’m the GM right now, I’m doing everything I can right now(within reason) to keep Reyes a Met. Reyes makes this team better now, and in the near future, and the Mets don’t want to sign him because he’s too risky? Well, you know what? If you want to win, you gotta take risks, you gotta take chances, if you don’t, you’ll never be successful. Signing Reyes to 6 years is risky no question, but if you want to WIN, then you have to take that risk, and do whatever it takes(within reason) to keep him here.
And J.P said “there’s not a moment that goes by that were not trying everything we can to make the Mets better.” How can he say stuff like that, if they aren’t going to bring Jose back? If you want to rebuild, then tell us your going to rebuild, don’t lie to us and give us false hope.
It’s such a shame because if the would have kept Reyes, and made improvements to the pitching, the Mets could have had a nice team. Having Reyes leadoff, and Wright, duda, and Davis hitting behind him, the Mets could have scored a lot of runs. And Santana coming back, would give the rotation a boost .And what I would have done, was try to package Murphy in a trade for a #2 starter. Guys like Gio, Cahill, Garza, Danks, and Sheilds names have been mentioned in trade rumors, and would help our rotation out a lot……and then Dickey, Niese, and Gee would have been the 3,4,5 starters – That’s not bad at all. And with, that lineup, the Mets could win with that rotation.
The bullpen could be fixed easily, there’s still a lot of good closers available that we can sign. Like, Capps, Francisco, Madson, ect….and then, we could find other good arms cheaply, and that would really improve the bullpen.
Dammit. I blame the damn Wilpons for letting Reyes go.
Mets never made an offer? WHAT A SURPRISE!
Screw the Wilpon$, and screw the front office too for not being honest with the fans about the entire process. It’s time to man up to the fact that we are a rebuilding franchise. In fact, we are a bottom-feeding franchise until the Wilpon$ lose control.
6 years, 106 mil, per MLBTR. sigh.
Alderson can bite my ass, what a LOSER!!!! WORST METS GM IN 25 YEARS!!!!!!!!!
This is deja vu. It reminds me of Strawberry leaving for the Dodgers albeit under different circumstances. That wasn’t because someone Madoff (pun intended) with the Mets cash!
Screw the Wilpons – this is all their fault.
Thanks for the memories, Jose.
So Alderson:
- Made no concrete offer to Reyes
- Not “pivoting” to pursue a FA. “Pivoting to pursue” now what the HELL does that mean?
- Not committing to Murphy at 2B
- Not giving up on 2012
Then what the HELL is this man doing? So they never made Reyes an offer. I don’t blame Reyes for signing with the Marlins, a team that WANTS TO WIN. I would have too
.and as for the Wilpons. If it’s true that they are as broke as reports say or worse than NO WAY should they be owning this team and holding the fans of New York hostage. They HAVE to get out of the way and let New York City have a competitive team. This is bigger than the Wilpons
Agreed.
For once, I’m in agreement with you there, Bayonne.
Not conceding 2012, Alderson?
WHAT A LOAD OF BULL!
I wish Jose the very best for his baseball career. He gave us a lot of great memories. My baseball fan instinct is to get mad at Mets management. My business instinct is to say anything over four years is a big gamble by Marlins management. But they can always count on MLB to bail them out, following the Fred and Jeff playbook.
Thanks Jose for your passion and talent. The Mets didn;t deserve you. Welcome to the AAA Mets everybody. I am still trying to understand how a team in New York can be so short in money (TV deal and its NY for christ’s sake!!!) so is Wilpanderson tellingus that the only way to make money is through the gate? I remember many seasons where they spent after lousy season with few fans showing up so what makes this year any different? oh,yeah the Madoff thing isnt affecting the Mets moneys AT ALL!!!!! the fans arent stupid. If i havent been bleeding orange and blue since 1982 then i would give up. WORSE BASEBALL OWNERSHIP EVER!!! If you can’t spend here you cant spend anywhere. Thanks Bud as well for allowing this to happen but you did run out McCourt for being a similarly cheap/crapy owner. Guess its all who you are friends with. Start the Madoff trial so they will be forced to sell team so the fans can get a good club on field again.
Was he worht 106 mill? No. But to the Mets and a fan base that loved him he was.
Selling Baseball in NY is like selling water in the desert. It’s a license to print your own money. And the Wilpons even screwed that up.
It’s one thing to be outspent for other free agents. But your own home grown players?
But it never should have come to this. If Minaya and management had any sense they would have locked Reyes up for a decent deal after an injury plagued 2009. But………
Man being a Mets fan sucks. It just sucks. I don’t know what to say. This sucks.
If anyone should be blamed it should be Minaya. Reyes never should have gotten to a walk year. He should have been locked up a long time ago.
Minaya did extend him.
I was great to see him play as a Met. But he will find out that the grass is not as grenn on the other side of the fence. Marlin are going to be an interesting team Ozie as manager reyes taking over a SS and a very unhappy person who has to move not so good for on field or clubhouse. How many games a year will be missed due to injury. Jose has been self center at the end of the season and know. Wanting to pull himself out of the last game of the season and thumbing his nose up at the Mets fans and team mates. A number of past player who left for big $ or asking for trades were sorry I hope Jose is happy over the next 6 years if he can still play at hi level in 6 years.
You guys who are apoplectic about Reyes leaving need to get real and understand what makes up a team. First, the reality of the situation is that the team lost a lot of money. We can’t do anything about the fact that the terrible Wilpons own the team. So given the circumstances, and the fact that Reyes is an overrated player to begin with, there was no way Alderson and company could match that ridiculous offer the Marlins are making to a player who is injury-prone, mistake-prone, relies on his legs which are constantly getting hurt, etc. The Mets never won a title with the guy and now we can spend the savings on shoring up the pitching staff and building a more complete team. We won 77 games with Reyes last year and I’ll put money on us winning more than that without him in 2112.
Let’s see if the Mets take the $15 million per year they “saved” on Reyes and spend it on some QUALITY free agents.
I’m concerned that they seem satisfied with the awful starting rotation—even with Santana (albeit probably not the #1 guy anymore) returning. Pelfrey and Gee are not good! They could try to sign Edwin Jackson and Mark Buerhle with some of the money they’ve saved (plus what they’d have by non-tendering Pelfrey), but my guess is they won’t do anything to improve the rotation.
They appear to be “punting”—and we will boycott!
The Marlins are paying about $18M a year for six years. For the Mets to do this they would has to accept that Tajada would cover 30 – 40 games at SS while Reyes is on the DL and still pay $18M. This is an all-in move by the Marlins and at some point they will be looking to trade Reyesbut at $18M it’s not likely. I will miss Reyes but understand that the Mets front office had their hands tied and unlike the Yankees, the Mets GM is limited to a mid market payroll and so Reyes moves on. Keep in mind this is necessary because of free spending based on a $140M payroll and then having to cut payroll to $100M. I’m sad to see Reyes go but given the constraints, this is the right move.Ugh, Pagan better be ready for a good year as a leadoff hitter.
As much as it hurts me to say this…anybody else considering jumping ship and following Bobby V to Boston for the next 5 years
I hear there is fair weather in Florida… Why not consider a retirement home?
No. Whatever for?
I think the definition of ‘fan’ is you stick with them through the good, bad and the ugly.
Not jump ship for whatever franchise happens to be on top in any given year.
Teo best living ex Met managers, one in Boston one in DC.
I can’t believe this is actually happening!!!! What the hell do we do now without him???
Play 162 games next year of course.
Don’t worry – Reyes won’t pass the physical!
Jon Heyman
#marlins are apparently not out on pujols. Its like a whole new organization.
Miami outdoing one New York team – amazing.
Well, the blogosphere is the perfect tool if you want to organize an Occupy Citi Field until the Wilpons sell. Otherwise i see no stronger way for the fans to be heard loud enough to get these people out
But wait, there’s more!
“The Nationals center field targets include Peter Bourjos, B.J. Upton, and maybe Angel Pagan if he is non-tendered, tweets Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports. ”
and
“The Nationals are one team that is maintaining interest in Cuban defector Yoenis Cespedes despite his increasing price tag, tweets Jon Paul Morosi of FOX Sports. Their pursuit of the center fielder may hinge on their negotiations with Mark Buehrle, C.J. Wilson, and Prince Fielder though.”
But don’t worry, our small market Mets are going to compete. They’re going to try to sign this Angel Pagan guy the big-market Nationals want. If anyone responds to this looking for a debate, they probably won’t get it. I’m too disappointed to engage in respectful discussion.
I am done with the Mets. I will not be watching the Mets on television nor will my family and I attened any more future home games at citi field. It is very simple. If the met brass does not care about fielding a competative club than why should we bother supporting them at home? If the mets do not have any money to run the day to day operations of the club than they sholuld sell the team to some one who really cares about the mets and understands the fans love affair and interest with the mets!
I figure they should just implode the whole damn team at this point. At least we can get ecstatic on hope or some crap.
No concrete offer, but they were supposedly interested in giving 5/80. That’s about $16 mill annually, right? Alright, let’s play this game then. A simple test. Adding Reyes to a Reyes-less team improves the team. If they aren’t willing to invest something around that number into the team this year, it just confirms what everyone is already thinking anyway.
I interpreted the “we lost $70 million” this year statement as they lost $70 million in baseball-related income. No shit, sherlocks. You brought in a guy to gut the team at the trade deadline. And you expected ticket sales to go up or something? Maybe down in St. Lucie.
The Nationals and Marlins were more interested in improving their teams this offseason. And all the excuses were so nice to read. “The Marlins aren’t really serious.” Post-Heath Bell “Oh, they over-paid. They’re still not serious.” Post-Jose Reyes “Well…uh… Jose Reyes is a horrible person.”
I’m nowhere near perfect, but if the Mets tell me “We would offer you $80 million to play here.” and never give me an offer, and the Marlins actually offer me a contract for $106 million, I’d at least give it a thought. Because I’m human, I guess.
I think one of the worst things about it is that I know a lot of people around this site, myself included, are really dedicated fans. I’m still going to be around this season, trying to find some god damned thing to support and be optimistic, but ownership has no interest in competing. That’s a shot at the Wilpons, not Alderson.
I’m not happy with Reyes and I’m even more unhappy with the Mets brass. I would be about 100x less upset if I see them invest whatever money they “saved” by not signing Reyes into pitching or to improve the team overall. But I really don’t see it happening. I want to wish Jose good luck, but really, the Marlins…
Dark day.
..which goes back to the terrible offseason that Alderson had last year. I’m not excusing the Wilpons here but Alderson is not an innocent bystander either.
As everybody knows there’s been heated debate here over the last few months about Sandy Alderson’s evaluating skills last offseason. Yes he had a low budget but as was pointed out by another member of this site there were plenty of other ballplayers he could have had within the same financial constraints. Instead he chose Hu, Emaus, Carrasco, Bonser, Bucholz, Tankersley, Young, Capuano, Paulino (Sandy sacrificed defense for his beloved OBP and look what happened), etc.
Did you guys here Sandy point out Capuano in passing during tonight’s presser? BIG DEAL!!!!! Who is he kidding?
I had always maintained that Alderson gave a “token attempt” to compete last off season then appeared like he acted during the entire season like he was waiting for the team to collapse. As if the team had to SHOW HIM they were competitive enough for him to make moves when it should be the other way around. Has anybody disproved that? I think not.
Make no mistake that Sandy is not innocent in this either because that 70 million lost is partly his fault too. Everybody’s so taken with the business economics of this they’re forgetting about the baseball decision-making part of it, and that’s MORE important.
Didn’t Sandy take a swipe at the press tonight referring to something they’ll be another time for like baseball economics 101 or something (i’m too tired to go looking on the web for it)
That’s might arrogant of him to say considering that his TERRIBLE off season last year is part of the reason for that 70 million dollar loss.
I think I see what you mean. If the Wilpons are dirt poor, or whatever the damn situation is, they seem to be well aware of it.
I can imagine, and this is my speculation, that they basically allotted X amount of money for Alderson to spend last season and he used it. The market with the money he spent all together was none too sharp, but I can see why you’re displeased. You especially, because I do remember you throwing out a list once or twice and mentioning guys like Harang, Francis.
I can’t say for sure how willing Harang/Francis/anyone would’ve been to come here, but I see your point. It’ll come down to decision-making.
I begin to wonder if it’s the same way for this offseason. Because if he is allotted X amount of money again, it’ll really be up to his baseball decision making this time around. I think it’ll be more prevalent this time around. He has some money to play with and it seems like 2-year deals and $5 million a year might be too much for us. Which worries me.
You know I never chose to be a Mets fan. You’re a little kid and you watch the same team your father watches and then one day you just wake up and you care about this team for some reason. It just sort of happens. And you’re stuck with that team for better or worse, you have no say in the matter, once you’re a fan it’s something thats just inside you.
I can honestly say, being a Mets fan sucks. It just sucks. I knew we would be rebuilding for the next 3-5 years, and I was fine with that, I’m not asking to be the Yankees. All I wanted was to see the team keep their two best and most loved players, Wright and Reyes. Even if it meant overpaying. And we lost him to the Florida Marlins…………
Being a Mets fan sucks.
There are certain players that mean more to a franchise then just what they do on the field. Reyes was one of the few players that sold tickets, jerseys, and made you tune in on that mid August night when the Mets were long out of contention.
He was the guy that made you say “I’ll go to the bathroom next inning after Reyes bats”.
Guys like him are not easily replaceable and don’t grow on trees. Not just the box score numbers but the excitement, the presence, charisma. I’m not trying to make him sound like Mickey Mantle, he’s not, but him and Wright were really the only thing keeping most people watching.
To any other team Reyes is not worth 100 million, but to the Mets he absolutely was. And unless he completely blows out his legs, this will be a day the Mets regret for a long long time.
Jose Reyes to Marlins feels like Tom Seaver to Cincinnati and Darryl Strawberry to Dodgers. ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH CRAP
Can’t pay the most exciting player you ever had but you can waste 40 mil on a fence. See ya’ when the Wilpons are out.
http://espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/story/_/id/7317717/new-york-mets-bud-selig-others-responsible-jose-reyes-exit
alex68 November 8, 2011 at 8:05 am .
with all the sadness in my heart, and i hope i am dead wrong:
Date: December 10, 2011
Years: 6 (5 years with an option)
How much Per Year: $19 million
Where He Signs: Miami Marlins
WHERE’S MY GIFT!?!!?
Your best post ever, Alex68.
A sickening day for Mets fans.
It is a sad day that we all knew was coming. Jose’ is the second greatest homegrown player in Mets history and it is just that now – all history! What a travesty that he is gone (to a better place) without even an offer from trhe Mets. WHAT A DISGRACE! No Mets games for me for at least several years. When in Florida, I will try to catch some Marlins games to root for Jose’. Citifield can burn down as much as I care.
Our self-appointed genius GM labeled Jose’ as eyewash for a team that is not good enough to obtain value from his talents. What an insult! That alone should have convinced Jose’ to walk. Thanks SA for nothing. Why don’t you take a hike off a cliff. I will drive you there personally if you wish.
Next up – David. SA should be starting his campaign shortly to insult him so he can sign with an aggressive team somewhere outside of NY. Let’s continue to flush out the eyewash and see how far into the cellar we can bury ourselves.
My prediction stands, it will be at least 2020 before the rebuilding begins. We are still in self-destruction mode now and rebuilding is far off in the future.
There is no crying in BB, but this brings you pretty darn close!
Its time the Wilpons knew that Enough is Enough:
http://nomorewilpon.weebly.com
No More Wilpon. If you want them gone, support the movement and let them know we will not fund their franchise as long as they are in control.
Surprising that there was little interest in Reyes that he sined so early for a good but not crazy money contract. Mets clearly didnt want to pay. 17.6 a yr is not big money to a NY team. Clearly The Mets are infinancial trouble.