17
2012
Mets Will Be Buyers At Deadline, Eyeing Jonathan Broxton
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Sandy Alderson told reporters today that the Mets will be buyers at the July 31 trade deadline.
Alderson said that while he does not intend to acquire a starting pitcher this month, but that he is focused on improving the bullpen as his number one priority. To a lesser degree, the Mets GM said he’ll be looking to add a right-handed bat to the team..
Alderson was also a guest on WFAN today and said that he is not close to making any trades at the moment, but believes that things will accelerate on that front as we get closer to the deadline.
He reiterated that the team is in a position to take on additional salary and increase payroll. However, he has no interest in trading away a player who might help the team in 2013 or 2014.
A major league source told Adam Rubin of ESPN, that “one reliever the Mets are paying close attention to is Kansas City closer Jonathan Broxton.”
Broxton, 28, is 1-1 with a 2.14 ERA and 22 saves in 33 appearances with Kansas City. He is making $4 million this season.
The Mets have kicked the tires on Broxton before, but maybe this time they’ll be a bit more serious in their pursuit.
Broxton has overcome arm woes and is having himself a solid season and would certainly improve a bullpen that is still among the worst in baseball. (that was for you, Jessep, lol)
Finally, put this in your “Believe It Or Not” files…
According to Buster Olney, the Marlins have let opposing teams know they may be sellers at the deadline if they don’t turn their season around, Olney reports that Giancarlo Stanton, Josh Johnson and Omar Infante could all be dealt.
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Nationals | 23 | 19 | .548 | 0.5 |
| Phillies | 20 | 22 | .476 | 3.5 |
| Mets | 16 | 23 | .410 | 6.0 |
| Marlins | 11 | 31 | .262 | 12.5 |
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Alderson is so full of crap. You cant trust anything he says because he;s been caught in over a dozen lies as GM. No integrity at all and never straight with the public. Signing Jose Reyes was a number one priority too, so was improving the bullpen last winter, not punting in 2011, etc. When he opens his mouth dont pay attention. All he’s done is one thing since coming here, slashing payroll and increasing profits for Wilpon.
You forgot to mention: hire the perfect manager for this team, aquire a TOP pitching prospect for a 2 month rental that was never going to stay, refocus on developing our prospects, slash payroll of MOST of the dead weight gaining financial flexability, and just putting out an exciting, scrappy, fun to watch team. Just Sayin!!!
The problem is we didn’t slash the dead weight…We kept all of that we slashed the players who actualy performed like K-Rod, Beltran and Reyes!
But Bay is still here!
They should have done what the Phillies did by going after Beltran after trading him. Philiies did that with Lee.
I know some Sandy apologists will say he wouldn’t sign here after the way he was treated but that was Omar not Sandy and there should not have been any animosity between them.
The Marlins are throwing in the towel already? LMAO! They’re seriously willing to part with one of the best young pure power hitters right now in Giancarlo Stanton? To think, people here were crazy about Justin Upton. What an addition of a right handed power bat that would be.
Why is it so hard for sandy to take his head out of his butt, common really, the guy is a jerk. we need starting pitching that can pitch hello, plus an arm in the bullpen to help sure up the closer’s role. yes we need a righthanded hitter, trade bay back to the american league where he can handle things, we also need a catcher who can hit. i just don’t get it. put mbastia in when the man really hasn’t pitched well at all, really sandy, it just hurts me so much that the dumb wilpons and sandy are once again killing us mets fans. why can’t this mets team get it together, why can’t the higher up’s finally take care of our team and the fans. This is a real sin, why can’t anyone understand this. The yankees always finds ways of winning no matter what, so why can’t sandy understand this.
Yes, you’re right about all that. The problem is that the Mets higher-ups do no not want to expend the investment it takes to truly field a winner. They just want to get close enough to give us a teaser, the feeling of being competitive but without any real chance of a championship. It’s all about doing just enough to get butts in the seats, but not actually spending to go all the way. Remember how we were told about “meaningful games in September”? Now that has morphed into meaningful games until the All Star break… after that comes the swoon. Why wait for September to collapse when July is available?
After watching Parnell (again) and Byrdak blow leads, i think we should trade Alderson at the deadline.His bullpen moves to start the season and refusal to add anybody who could close while francisco is out is a freaking disgrace.I cannot watch another game go down the drain because of Bobby Parnell.
If they cant get through the Nats, they aren’t going to be buyers.
Ha Ha Ha Ha… Sandy Alderson trying to improve the bullpen.. I think we’ve all read the lies from this fraud before. the arrogant SOB thinks he can be a failure all the time and have his loyal follower believe him forever. Guess what Alderson, even the god of PSU Joe Paterno has lost 95% of his cult worshipers. So have you.
Are you seriously comparing Sandy Alderson to Joe Paterno?
Wow, some of you fans are just….I don’t even know. SMH.
Yeah I think comparing Sandy Alderson to Joe Paterno right now says all you need to know about “Amazin”.
Both of you guys are just trying to twist what he said…
He didn’t compare Joe to Sandy he compared how fast the fall will be.
But I guess thats the only Pro-Sandy angle you could come up with on short notice!
Except Paterno’s fall happened because he used his influence to systematically protect child rape.
Certain people invented some world where statues to Alderson have been erected and he somehow committed a crime to have them torn down.
Falls from grace have lots of causes….
Your real issue is you guys put Sandy up on that pedestal he is falling from and Paterno at least made some great teams to get there!
It took a lot more to knock him off his pedestal than it is taking to knock Sandy off his!
What does it is unimportant though!
He wasn’t saying Sandy is as evil as Paterno just falling as fast as him in the eyes of the fans because all those who put him on that pedestal and praised his every move have no credible explanation to save him!
That “Good Day” is now considered a ‘NIGHTMARE!”
Not really…I’m not the one who is trying to say a Bullpen with 19 losses isn’t that bad you are!
so, you refute the accusation of strawman with another strawman.
Well done. You should host a political talk show.
Thats really all you have isn’t it?
Are those 19 losses made of straw?
Is that what you think?
And you wonder why people think your an idiot?
Wow, great job at spinning his comments… We all know what amazing is trying to say, shocking how 2 of sandy’s biggest fans are the first ones to take his comments out of context….
Sandy’s massive legion of fans is rapidly decreasing…. Case closed!!!
We do? You might.
Sorry, that was a very poor comparison IMO. I didn’t ‘spin’ anything. Just read the words he typed, my friend.
You do not mention Joe Paterno if you aren’t trying to compare SA to him.
It was a poor job. Don’t blame us for what “Amazin” said.
Right… Right now you guys are looking for ways to deviate from what’s going on with sandy alderson, might have been a poor comparision, but everyone who was skeptical of SA at first, is finally coming around to see how much of a POS he is as a GM … There, I fix it for him,,,, happy>?
Well lets see, you predicted 69 wins and the Marlins winning the WS. I guess we also have to consider how wrong you were?
It was a stupid comment meant only to be as disgusting and insulting as possible. But you go ahead and keep defending all the lowlifes because they side with you about the GM.
“might” have been a poor comparison. Right.
Just because you dislike Sandy Alderson doesn’t mean you have to ignore that somebody using Joe Paterno in the same light as him. You can just admit it was a ridiculous comment to make.
Well lets see, you predicted 69 wins and the Marlins winning the WS. I guess we also have to consider how wrong you were?”
hey, before you came here with that garbage, i already have admitted i was wrong about the mets winning only 69 games… About the marlins, hey, it’s the season over yet? some people in this very site picked the phillies… Go figure..
When i am wrong, i admit i am wrong, but nobody want to admit how right i was about that gm of the NY METS.. Finally, they starting to come around..
Is the season over yet? You should live by those words as well, correct?
Am i giving up on the season??? No… But the talent level for this mets is not the same as other teams… Sandy needs to help improve the rorster, instead, he’s worrying about how many people in NY were not voting for DW to the ASG.
That’s not the point, we have no idea what Sandy is trying to do. I used to make this same defense for Omar. There has been little to no activity yet so to get on him for not getting anything done yet seems as usual short sighted. Neither of us know what this 2nd wild card has done to the trade deadline. I think I counted 7 teams in all of baseball who are “out of it”.
I could care less who ‘likes’ SA and who doesn’t.
Comparing him to a guy who basically turned his head at numerous sexual abuse incidents over and over again, involving young boys is just plain ridiculous. Why would you even defend that?
I don’t know I feel quite violated everytime we send someone from this bullpen into the game! LOL
I agree with you SRT using Paterno in light of what has since come out was a poor choice but having seen people with opposing views called terrorists and described as Nazi’s you should expect this by now.
Amazin, I know what your point is. Oh how the mighty have fallen. These younger geek-types are stats smart but have no street smarts. Next time just say another year like the last two and even his loyalists will be crying for his ouster. Again, these are geeks. Before you write something try to dumb it down a little.
And talking crap anonymously on the internet is the pinnacle of cool.
Oh, wait…is “pinnacle” too big a word for a cool guy like you?
Lmao, Hey jesseP, how’s that article about the mets bullpen being not as bad as we think looking right about now eh????? the worst bullpen ERA in the majors, 18 BS, everyone with losses.. I mean, it’s just getting worst and worst… But hey, our bullpen was much better in June so…
Alex,
What team do you root for? No really, what team? Please don’t say the Mets and huff and puff about how all fans have the right to express their opininions and views (very true). Even if you are in fact a fan of this team, without ever having met you I could tell that there’s is nothing you like more than being the barer of bad news. The Soothsayer! Alex, this team is better and more sound (financially and throughout the entire organization) then it has been since Frank Cashen. I know you’re going to say well Omar assembled the young talent in the minors (a fact I do not dispute). Omar is an incredible talent evaluator but he would have either traded away much of that young talent for aging grumpy vets, or just rushed them to the bigs to ruin them for good. You keep complaining that Sandy has a hidden agenda to make the Wilpons more money (nothing wrong with that it is a business). Omar had an even bigger agenda. He wanted to be the one who fielded an all latino team (nothing wrong with the concept as long as the players are actually better than the non latino counterparts), he came up with Los Mets, and he was going to hire a manager of color no matter what his credentials were. I am a Latino, and the way they carried on was a bit embarassing. Even Carlos Delgado said he was uncomfortable with their approach when they attempted to sign him originally.
I would say Omar is a very good talent evaluator Sloatsburg, not incredible. He did a much better job with the minors than Steve Phillips but he had 6 drafts under his tenure and we still do not have one impact player on this team.
We have some nice players, flawed players but no impact players. We still haven’t produced an impact bat since Wright and Reyes and we don’t have a credible frontline starter yet. Niese and Gee are nice pitchers but they’re not front end starters. That could change but from what I’ve seen so far I’m not holding my breath.
Maybe Harvey is that guy but he did pass on Chris Sale who was rated higher than Harvey in the draft and he’s already pitching like a front line starter, so if he was incredible or if he had put such an incredible scouting department together we would have a few allstar type players here by now.
Also we should not have to go out and buy a new bullpen every freakin offseason. There should be a couple of reliable arms in the pen from the system every couple of years but that’s clearly not the case. Bobby Parnell is the best that’s come through the system in quite some time and that’s not saying much.
To me Omar was great at and didn’t get enough credit for guys like Dickey, Tatis, Easley, etc… The type of players that was supposed to be a strength of the Saber GM’s alla Sandy is finding the undervalued player that contributes and Omar did that better than Sandy.
For all the talk on this site about how good Omar was as an evaluator we still don’t have a nucleous we can call championship caliber. We have Wright and Tejada that we can call part of a solid nucleous but no one else. Maybe Ike, again, not holding my breath.
We don’t have a solid up the middle core except for SS. Catcher is the weakest link, followed by CF and then 2B. We don’t have a well rounded player from our system other than Tejada. Kirk can’t sniff LHP, neither can Ike or Duda for that matter.
Duda, Murphy, Thole and even Valdespin are horrible defensive players and even our top position player in the system, Flores, doesn’t have a position. Ike is great at picking throws at 1B but he has no range and is not aggresive at all. That LaRoche groundball in the 10th should’ve been a 3-6-3 DP to end the inning. He hasn’t been that good at 1B this year like he was his rookie season.
For as good as people think we are, we have overachieved and still have major flaws on this team and are a long ways away from being a team that can sustain success for any period of time. Even if we have a miraculous finish and steal a wildcard spot, we still have a ton of work to do.