He had no relationship and they offered him 6 years, 6 Years is not a LONG deal it’s about what a top FA signs for these days!

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/jon_heyman/05/25/jose.reyes/index.html

By the time Wright begins any actual contract talk, so many things can change… including the rumors

you seem to be hung up on it should be more than 6 years to make sure he remains a met forever.

but 6 not being enough is entirely dependent on another team, that has no history with him, and that he wants to spend the rest of his career on, offering him more.

so, how many teams are going to offer a 31 YO Wright 7-8 years at huge dollars? remember, they have no vested interest in him, he is purely a “statistical meatbag” to them.

and if nothing else, while I understand that everyone likes money, no way in hell can you be looking at Wright as someone that has to wring ever last guaranteed $ out of this deal to make sure he is taken care of later in life!

he will be 36 by the time that deal is done and why wouldn’t he just hold out for the two extra years and know he had a contract that would end around the time he would have to start considering retirement?

Why?
Because each of them were looking for a team they could call home for the rest of nthier career!

After everything you have heard Wright say over the last year what makes you think he doesn’t want the same thing?

You guys are fooling yourself if you think 6 years is going to cut it!

I know thats what Sandy might agree to but I doubt highly Wright and his Agent will.

just silliness to think he has to sign a 10 year deal, just in case he can still be playing that long.

at 31, 5-6 years is a huge, huge deal and he knows it.

And I have the emails to prove it! So does the Admin!

at the point where Wright is now, even with never being on the DL and putting up consistent monster numbers, and being a home town boy, CHipper still only signed for 6 years!

and CHipper was actually an iron man at Wrights age. Through age 31, his low for games was 153, then at 32 he played 137. 33 and 34 were much lower, but then he had 3 years not too bad (128-143). I actually wasn’t expecting his GP to be that high.

once you hit 38 you are just permanently day to day!

We ain’t there yet but it is starting to look good if we can sweep the Cards and the Nats this week.

For a guy who has said he wants to be a Met for Life it’s an insult not a long term deal!

Wright will be 36 at the end. How many 36 Year olds get big bucks in FA today?

This could be Wright last big payday if he signs any deal above 4 years! And that means the only option the Mets have is to give the face the contract that gets him close to the gold watch and if a 5 or 6 year deal is it he might as well test the market and go for the money!

Just like reyes…People think Reyes went for the money but most would have done a 5/90 deal with him. Thats 18 Mil per…The deal he took is only 17.6 mil! So it wasn’t really the money that reyes took it was the years! (That is if Sandy had made that offer at all!)

Same thing will happen with Wright!
Either you offer him the contract that makes him a met for life (7+) he might as well go and try the FA market!

at the end he reworked the deal (signing a 3 year deal for less money that also bought out the option yeas).

basically, they signed him for relatively big money (but probably market correct, with a bit of a home town discount), then when he got older they worked out shorter deals that made sense for both sides.

exactly what they should do with Wright.

I only mentioned him because as of this date he is the only player I know of who started, played and ended his entire career as a Met!

I think old miss Payson had the hots for him or something! LOL

and you are missing a key point. The Mets won’t be able to trade him during the deal, so he has to be here through the end if he wants to be.

so you seem to be hung up on not having a deal that covers age 36+? If it gets down to that, if he can still play (ala Chipper) he will get something fair for the market and what he is doing at the time. And if he is shot, then hell, he would have been a met for life! Not every player insists on hanging around until he is 40 and a total shell of his former self (say, like thome).

anyway, in my proposal, I did have it covered for 8 years (long in anyone’s book). The last 2 years were just options. And there are plenty of ways to structure those. mutual, team or player at different rates, stuff like that. Say, years 7-8 are guaranteed for 3 mill but he can opt out, but the team can override that for 17?

I just don’t see obsessing about having a contract signed until he is too old to move is going to be the hold up.

Money is not going to be the holdup here it’s going to be the years.
A 4 year extention sounds reasonable if it also includes the option year.
Once the option is signed your now talking about much more years or he might as well go into FA and get a 6 year deal and probably more money too!

Too late now but thats what they should have done,