23
2012
Red Sox Agree To One-Year Deal With Cody Ross
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The Red Sox have agreed to a one-year contract with free-agent Cody Ross. Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports first reported the signing and Gordon Edes of ESPN reports the deal is worth $3 million with built in performance incentives.
The Mets pulled out of the running when it became apparent Ross wasn’t going to sign anything close to what the Mets were offering.
Last season with the San Francisco Giants, Ross played all three outfield positions and batted .240/.325/.405 with 14 homers and 52 RBI in 405 AB in what was a down year for him.
Original Post 1/21
The Mets have interest in free agent outfielder Cody Ross and are making a run at him says Jerry Crasnick of ESPN via twitter. Ross has 345 career games in centerfield and would be an offensive upgrade to former-teammate Andres Torres, who batted .221 in 2011.
Ross, like Scott Hairston, is a right-handed batter with some pop. The 31-year old New Mexico native hit .240/.325/.405 with 14 homers and 52 RBIs in 405 at-bats for the Giants in 2011.
He earned $6.3 million last season and although originally seeking a two years, a thinning market may cause him to settle for a one-year deal.
A guy that can play all three outfield positions and swing a relatively consistent bat is a valuable asset, one the Mets thought they had in Pagan. Ross knows the division from his days with the Marlins, and would provide a legitimate fallback plan should the Torres experiment not work as Alderson hopes.
My only question is, where is this money suddenly coming from that they are pursuing a free agent that isn’t out of the bargain bin. We have heard names like Adam Loewen and Ronny Cedeno all winter, –with exception to the one night in which Alderson re-vamped the bullpen– but now we are suddenly starting to hear the Mets going after actual major league ballplayers.
Go figure.
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Great, another 4th outfielder. That’s an upgrade from Torres? One bum to another. Torres .244 lifetime hitter, Ross hit .240 last year and a career .261 hitter. Sounds like Jason Bay now.
seems to be redundant to Hairston. Seems like a LH hitting OF would better fill the need.
If we’re really going to spend a little bit of money here, shouldn’t it be fo SP???
at this point, who is there?
Offtopic: Paterno has passed away.
http://twitter.com/#!/OnwardState/status/160901171387699200
with reports earlier today that they had removed his respirator and was on his death bed it seems it was only a matter of time. Cancer is an ugly thing I would not wish on my worst enemy.
Geez they said it was a very treatable form of lung cancer.RIP Joe Pa.
CBS s denying report and ESPN has him in serious condition,
Yep looks like you are right.
https://twitter.com/#!/markcviera/status/160904588176793601
As of 8:57 PM family spokesman denied the reports saying “No. Absolutely not”. https://twitter.com/#!/markcviera/status/160904588176793601
Why of all papers a Penn State paper falsely report Paterno has passed away?
Can you imagine the football players if they indeed got an email and it was bogus?
Jay and Scott Paterno just went to twitter to deny rumors. MNJ, i thought CBS reported it.
Yea I saw the JayPaterno tweet. Thx Clayton. That is what I get for believing an online publication. I feel bad for ever mentioning it. Of all the things to be wrong about for a supposed news site being wrong about someone deaths has to be right up there.
smh
Don’t worry about it MNJ, it was all over Twitter and Facebook. But yeah it is something you want to be sure of before you throw it out into the general public.
On a side note, I actually was considering Penn State but just never ended up applying. I got a letter (the mass letters they send out to the students they are recruiting) from the new president and actually talked about the scandal, I was shocked that they wouldn’t try to avoid when trying to get kids to apply there.
it was out there, so much better idea to try and get in front of if.
My son got accepted but ended up going elsewhere. We did like the school when we visited. being in SJ, I know a lot of people that went there (including some of my son’s friends).
a lot of talk about Ankiel. No way they can sign both. Ankiel must be cheaper.
Cody Ross is 31 years old and never hit above .270 in his entire career.
If the Mets were serious about making a run in 2012 in lieu of dumping the salaries of Wright, Bay and Santana, I would like the addition of Cody – he is a dependable fourth outfielder. But since they are more interested in bean counting rather than winning, getting Ross means little to me one way or the other.
Yeah, I like the depth he would add, but don’t see how it happens under the current salary structure, or lack there of….
…or the misuse of whatever funds the Mets had. There is a valid argument that the Front Office has not done a good job of spending wisely since they’ve arrived.
Well, to nitpick a little, most of the money that is tied up is due to the previous regime.
Looking back in hind sight, yes, certain moves should have been made/not made. But while having Ross would be nice, at his cost he wouldn’t be an option. Honestly, if they had the money for Ross, I’m sure they would have spent that elsewhere than a backup/platoon OF type.
This has to be a spurious report. This team cannot afford him. He is too high priced for what he offers. He is not a complete player and not appropriate for this team which has more fundamental needs to fill. Ross is a complimentary player for some other team, but doesn’t belong here.
He would be a good acquisition, a legit line-up threat whenever he plays and provides full outfield versatility, so I disagree with your assessment of his value and ability in that sense.
That said, we need lefty hitting outfielder in utility role, not another righty. The way he then fits would be if he platoons with Torres or if Mets make another move for the bench such as replacing Turner with a lefty hitting infielder/outfield combo utility player for bench.
I’m still wondering if they will maybe go after Ivan Rodriguez.
doesn’t change the rest of the dynamics though, unless you expect them to carry 3 catchers (I don’t)
That would be a great signing to really help develop Thole during the season and Nickeas and the younger ones brought into big league camp.
It would also provide vet leadership overall.
You may be right that I was too harsh in my assessment, but I am not going to fret over the fact that the Mets interest in him has cooled. That was predictable because we can’t afford him anyway and it was just a smoke screen all along. He’s the kind of player that is not quite good enough to go after and too expensive to go after either. We need nickel and dime players that have fallen through the MLB screening system and are capable unknowns. Where do you get those kinds of players? Beats me, that’s Brainiac’s job.
Maybe the Wilpons feel that they have a good shot at getting that dirtball Picard off their back and feel they may have some extra money. Just a thought.
SCOTT PODSEDNIK!
Uh… is a Philly?
Apparently, the holdup is that Ross is asking for money and the Mets have offered him a perks package that includes access to Mr. Met.
Is anybody else is looking to sign him?
Unless there are few teams wanting Cody I would think he would not want to go from a contender and once removed world champion to the Mets with the way we were headed. So maybe the pickings are quite limited.
not looking like he has a huge market. And every year, some guys that think they are getting a good sized deal end up signing for “chump change” or even a MiL deal.
All a numbers game.
Somewhere this morning (Twitter?) I saw something about Ross and the Yankees. Didn’t really make much sense to me though. Don’t see where the Yankees have a need for Ross.
I think the Redsox are still in.
Off Topic: Giants are going to the SUPERBOWL!!!
HELL YEAH!
proving that miracles still do happen in sports.
Coming back from 7-7 after getting abused by the Redskins to the super bowl is just mind boggling. And of course wonderful!
So, I’m not the only one who crawled into the office this morning wreaking of wings and beer? Good to know.
But, ya, this is awesome. Manning has been a beast these last 2 years. And I was a huge detractor of his.
I think we’ll be seeing exactly what the team has signed so far come spring training, with the exception of maybe a pitcher or 2 (Young on a minor league deal + one other).
Ross is a quality veteran MLBer, who has averaged 17 HR’s per season over the past 6 seasons and he made over $6 million last season. Translation: too rich for Mets’ blood. Plus, he would end up being the everyday CFer which would mean that the Pagan trade was for nothing.
Well now, as we can see at one point there was to be given to jose reyes, so what happened to that money now, now that jose went south. I just don’t get my team anymore. like i said before, let’s get rid of those owners please. They are the real reason why the mets can’t be winners for a long time, they really want a team but lose lose all the time, and yues it’s unfair to us as fans because we pay for those players they put on the field. Why can;t they just sign a few pitchers or just trade for them. Like reyes and now fmart we just let them go without getting something for them. Now all of u know what kind of season we will be having, thanks alot again to the wilpons.
It looks like Cody Ross will sign with the RedSox. Rumor has it for 1 year $3M plus incentives.
Off Topic: Apparently Omar Vizquel signed a minor league deal with Toronto and Wilson Betemit has signed with the Orioles. Hey Prince Fielder your on the clock.
Fine withme. If we had another 3 MIL to spare, I’d much rather see them spend it on SP.
It went to upgrade the pen with three solid relievers.
Cody would be better off with the Red Sox than the Mets. Despite their problems and my personal feeling that the Sox might be fading from the top echelon of the league, it’s going to be more fun playing in Fenway than at Citi Field.
And signing Ross would have been a worthless move for the Mets but now I think we all accept the fact that most all moves now being made by the Mets are worthless. The only moves that will be worth something are the ones that I hope they stop doing. On paper the club looks like a fifth place team but we saw how the kids played as a cohesive unit up until they were undermined by ownership so we know they could spark something again if (and there are many of those) certain things do go right for what appears on paper often is not what occurs on the field. A long shot, yes, but by not ridding themselves of veterans doing the job and keeping them within close range of the wild card, it will be those moves that they don’t make – salary dumping – that just might save the season. Again, a long shot but at least there is something to grasp at if the Wilpons don’t again take it away from us.
Unfortunately, that is what I see Sandy doing again this summer. It’s not as much that the Mets WOULDN’T but COULDN’T come up with the $3 million that Boston signed Ross for and that is just more evidence on how bad the financial situation really is. And I don’t think it’s the Mets per say as it is the entire Wilpon holdings which means little spent on the team as possible.