Perfect Scenario For Announcing Wright’s Extension

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• Alex68 August 28, 2012 at 10:02 am

  Well, IMHO the mets should trade him now that his value is up. get a few more prospects to have them ready for the 2014-2015 seasons. The guy is having a good season and quite frankly, the mets (Just as the same excuse was used for reyes) haven’t won anything with him so part ways with him instead of losing the risk of losing him for nothing.
  Although, it’d be interesting to see how the mets fan base reacts to him signing with another team and ditch the mets. although, i see some people, already using the “He wants to go to a winner” excuse for in case he leaves. i guess time will tell how this will play out.
  • TRS86 August 28, 2012 at 10:10 am

    I am torn on trading Wright, pending the development of the pitchers in the organization and the return Wright would provide. Again, they can’t do that until they pick up the option and Wright would have to approve the trade. Often when that is the situation the return is lessened. So I agree we will just have to weight and see what happens. No sense in predicting this one.
    • stick August 28, 2012 at 11:08 am

      approve? he doesn’t have a no trade clause, and is not 5/10, so once they pick up the option, he is going where they want to send him.
  • Joe D August 28, 2012 at 10:13 am

    Alex, the decision is no longer Alderson’s to make. He is out of the picture. This is all on Wright and what his goals are. The time for doing the team a solid has passed for Wright, he’s done right by the Mets, but watching his buddies Tulo and Zimmerman get taken care of long before it came down to an option year had to have weighed heavy on his mind. In fact he no longers says things about wanting to spend his entire career with the Mets. He went into Jose Reyes gear a long time ago. I’ve heard him say four different times already in the last two months, that he wants to play for a winner and a team that consistently goes to the post season. He even says money won’t be the deciding factor, only playing for a winner. There may have been a chance to keep him had something been done a year ago before it came to this, but the fact they didn’t motivated him to have a great season much like it did for Jose. Just like real people, when you feel disrespected all you want to do is prove them wrong and that’s what Wright will do as he walks out the door. Wright even took a shot at the front office when he referred to the last two years as a baby step. I’ve never heard him not have the Mets back before until last week when he said that. He is disengaging and disconnecting.
    • stick August 28, 2012 at 11:10 am

      a year ago, he was coming off 2 straight poor output and/or, injury prone years. so unless he was looking to sign cheap, it was not really in the cards.
    • Metsie August 28, 2012 at 11:22 am

      I said it yesterday but it bears repeating….

      The Key to Dickey is what happens with Wright,
      The key to Wright is what happens between now and the trade deadline next season!
      And the truth is if Sandy waits till the trade deadline it may be way too late to get Wright back!

      If per chance Sandy goes and signs a promising player to complement Wright (another Power RH Hitting OFer) then he should have little to no problem extending Wright for a reasonable (to most people anyway but maybe not Sandy!) contract!

      If that happens then Dickey will also have enough to show him it’s worth staying and extending!

      Bar anything but that happening I assume both will be traded at the deadline for anything Sandy can get which will lead to his being fired the following offseason!

      Cause if he loses Wright or Dicvkey after losing Beltran and Reyes he is done in NY!
    • Joey D. August 28, 2012 at 12:52 pm

      Hi Joe D.

      You are so right to point out the difference in the way David is addressing the media as opposed to the past. The words he is saying – and more important – the words that he is not or no longer saying – cannot be glossed over. He is not saying he hopes something can be worked out because he wants to end his career as a Met as it is he might very well want to end his career as a Met but is uncertain as to the direction the Mets are headed in (having taken one baby step).

      Does this mean that David does not have a clear vision about what the organization is doing to mold this team into a winner as Sandy supporters seem to have? Do those who back the moves Sandy is making understand things better than David does?
  • Alex68 August 28, 2012 at 10:22 am

    TRS, first of all you’re wrong. the mets hold the option and can trade wright. it’s not his option as he is not a 10-5 type player.He can be traded for the team with the most quality of prospects it’s not up to him, if he does get traded the mets don’t owe him any favor.

    Joe D, you’re wrong as well, again, what’s the difference between him and reyes? reyes had an option, was picked up and he had a great season before signing with the marlins, the marlins had a good nucleous of players and were ready to contend as well. Money is always a factor into the desicion with this player. If he wants to go to a winner, to a team that’s constantly in the playoffs, then he’d sign with the yankees since they’re always in the post season. the mets hold the hand as they can pick up his option then trade him, as i said, the mets do not owe HIM any favors, they owe the fan base a perennial winner, and last i checked we haven’t won anything with him (Same excuse that was used for reyes), also, he did have his opportunity in the playoffs in 2006 and we all saw how well that turned out.
    If the brewers offered him $150 million and the yankees offered him $50 where do you think he’ll end up going? yeah, thought so.
    • Joe D August 28, 2012 at 10:30 am

      Alex,

      The Mets can pick up the option and trade him, but only before the season starts otherwise there is no compensation for the acquiring team.

      It’s a new CBA with new rules.

      So either works out a deal this Winter or doesn’t, but why should he work out a deal now when he’s already got a foot out the door and can taste free agency?

      That’s why you do these things two years before like the other teams did with their superstars. It eliminates the temptation of being so close to free agency that the player would rather test the open market.

      Other GM’s understand that and even though he was burned by Reyes, our GM learned nothing from that experience.

      And yes, of course if the difference is $100 million he’ll follow the money. What I’m saying is that money alone will not be the deciding factor.
      • Alex68 August 28, 2012 at 10:39 am

        Joe D, point is, last year he couldn’t have been traded, he had a bad season and his value was down, that is why he came back with a vengeance, had a good season to get extended, but he didn’t. Now the only option the mets have is to trade him for good prospect/s and hope for the best instead of let him walk out, because believe me, he will walk out, and that excuse about $ it’s all that, Bull crap, i don’t buy any player saying it’s all about winning, they all wanna win, but baseball it’s a team sport, and sometimes things don’t work out they way you had planned, just go and ask the marlins my WS pick.
        • Joe D August 28, 2012 at 10:43 am

          Why would they trade Wright, who will be 31 when his new contract would start, for prospects? It’s not like we are rebuilding. Only one more year left until 2014 when we return to the post season. You gotta believe.
          • Metsie August 28, 2012 at 11:24 am

            When you say Postseason I assume you mean the NHL! LOL
        • Alex68 August 28, 2012 at 10:55 am

          Well, you say we are not rebuilding, then what exactly are we doing?? Why was our 2nd round pick not sign this year? because we were not losing any FA who were gonna net us any compesation, therefore we would get another pick next year. Yes, we are rebuilding, no matter what you say, the mets are in rebuilding mode, thing is, Sandy who is a lawyer knows the importance of having fans not believe a NY TEAM is rebuilding, but you and i along with his slurpers know we are rebuilding. It’s not only because we have no money, it’s because we are REBUILDING!
        • hotstreak August 28, 2012 at 10:59 am

          Alex I believe last year the Rox were wet in their pants for DW. They mentioned Pomerantz and a catcher in AA who had 20 hrs there and then he skipped AA and played briefly with the Rox. The catcher was Wil Rosario. This was during DW bad year. Met ownership was still worried about the claw back Madoff trustee suit. DW was not offered an extention. During last offseason we could have filled a need with a power hitting catcher. We had a plethora of options at 3B. True the fences were coming in at Citi Fiield and we knew that would help DW. But still the seminal moment to trade DW was after the 2011 season. Where were our scouts? They should have been watchig Wil Rosario. Bottom line no planning because we did not fil a vital need for a relatively low payroll and we did not rebuild with DW as a chip. Joey D made valid points.
          • Alex68 August 28, 2012 at 11:09 am

            Well, we might get even more for him now then.. But again, with this FO we should LOWER any expectaions we have. they’re not here to win or build a winner, just to whether the payroll storm for the wilpons. i mean, it’s gotta be that, because there’s just no way THREE GMS cannot be this inpet and useless to a baseball team as SA, depodesta and ricciardi have been for the NY METS ORG.
            • stick August 28, 2012 at 11:17 am

              is weathering the storm any different than what all the other teams do, which is live on a budget tied into revenues/expenses?

              The Mets seem to have a break even point (which is where the budget gets set) of right around 100mill. The Braves have one a little lower. Other teams are higher. But in any case, that is what the FO gets to work with.

              so at some point, it is not about saving the team for the Wilpons. It is just SOP of how a MLB team works.

              last year was different, if the reality was payroll could be supported at 100 but it was running at 140mill. So that you could say was keeping the team from going belly up. But not now.
            • hotstreak August 28, 2012 at 11:23 am

              If I was offered a catcher who hit 20 hrs in AA and was promoted directly to parent club then I would be very intereted. Many Met fans were drooling over Pomerantz.. I would be drooling over a catcher with 20 hrs. in AA, Wil Rosario who has over 20 hrs. in big leagues his rookie year. We have a desparate hole in the catching position to fill. Again during 2011 we lost Reyes and FO was afraid to trade Wright. That was the time to do it before Wright could test FA.
              • hotstreak August 28, 2012 at 11:27 am

                To be fair the 2013 DW option is only good for the Mets but the Rox still would have made the Pomerantz, Rosario deal and a 3rd player Ty Wigginton for Wright. To be honest I don’t remember Wiggton being a Rox.
    • Trs86 August 28, 2012 at 7:27 pm

      You are right I was giving him one more year. Next year starts his 10 th year.
  • Rafael August 28, 2012 at 3:34 pm

    I would trade him and then (if they are for real) sign him when he hits the FA.
• Alex68 August 28, 2012 at 1:29 pm

  Very Sad to be a mets fans this days:

  http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/mets/we_re_no_8aZrA3wBDmA6K3W8wNAxwO?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Mets
• Rafael August 28, 2012 at 1:53 pm

  If the Mets could get four “A” prospects for Wright and Dickey, they shold take it. Imagine what it will be to have this rotation for 2014-2015: Harvey, Wheeler, Niese, (Pomerantz or another great pitching prospect), Mejia, Familia or Gee. Not bad at all. The rest of the prospect would be good power bat for the outfiels and catcher, and then, they can still spend some money in productives FA to round the team, like Hamilton and King Felix.
  • Alex68 August 28, 2012 at 1:59 pm

    FOUR??? Honestly, 2 A prospects and a couple of B prospects do the trick for me. Saved enough money for a real GM to spend it wisely, good nucleous of players coming up can do wonders for us.
    • Rafael August 28, 2012 at 3:28 pm

      Right now, Wright and Dickey can help a team to win the championship. They can bring two A prospects each.
• Greg Pomes August 28, 2012 at 1:58 pm

  You forget we’re a moneyball team now! When our homegrown stars are close to free agency and deserve a big paycheck we let them go. Wright will probably be playing with the Dodgers while we have Murphy or Turner attempting to play the game at third base!
• Joey D. August 28, 2012 at 2:54 pm

  Another thing about counting too heavily on prospects – sometimes it is found to be too late for tomorrow.