From this article written, and another one I read, sounds like this trade had more to do with the Cards wanted to unload him and the Mets were in the right place at the right time too.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=950&dat=19830618&id=jsJaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=I1kDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6508,784100

Not saying he will or won’t or if this scenario will ever apply.

But David Wright has always been Keith on the Cardinals.
Always deferred to the existing leaders and always had someone more significant around for everyone to look up to AS a leader.

Names like Piazza, Beltran, Delgado even Cliff Floyd was a leader here.

This is the first team where Wright has been THE guy to go to!
There is no one else to challenge him and there have been some signs that Wright may even acknowledge his role and is trying to fill it!

He may never be another Keith even if it does hit him he is the guy. And who can say he has realized it yet!
Truth is the only one who has the attitude for it is Murphy but he doesn’t have the creds for it yet.

If wright takes the role and Muephy continues to play the way he has and becomes his wingman then good things can happen again here!

He was not a leader on that Cardinals team just another guy who played on a team of pretty good ballplayers and had some playing time and tutelege from guys like Lou Brock.

What Keith said was he was always one of those kids who looked up to the leaders and when he finally got to the Mets and saw all the kids we had that he realized he had to be our Lou Brock and take over the role of leader on our leaderless team.

That transformed Keith and he in turn transformed the attitude of the team from the “Ok lets go out and try not to lose again” to “lets go out and WIN today!”

Once Carter and Knight got here we were chock full of leadership and confidence and thats what led to the dominant attitude the 86ers had!

And something maybe not as recognized about Keith is he was a walking scouting report on how to face batters and was a major help to the young pitchers like Gooden, Darling Fernandex and Aguilera by going to the mound and giving them a quick refresher course on what the book on them was.

The Hernandez trade was a turning point in the same way that Gill Hodges was a turning point back for the 69 team!

They both changed the mindset (kudos to Seaver for 69 as well) of a team that lost a lot and resigned to that to a team that thought they could beat anyone and did!

The question is who is going to do that now and will we be willing to pay that guy what he will likely need to get paid to play here?

Cause it seems obvious that the Hernandez deal would never be made by this front office!
Potential drug issues and a maybe too expensive contract?
Would never happen if Sandy was running things!