Comments on: Perfect Scenario For Announcing Wright’s Extension

By: Trs86

Trs86 — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 23:27:34 +0000

You are right I was giving him one more year. Next year starts his 10 th year.

By: Rafael

Rafael — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 19:34:41 +0000

I would trade him and then (if they are for real) sign him when he hits the FA.

By: Rafael

Rafael — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 19:28:11 +0000

Right now, Wright and Dickey can help a team to win the championship. They can bring two A prospects each.

By: Joey D.

Joey D. — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 18:54:55 +0000

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

By: Alex68

Alex68 — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 17:59:48 +0000

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.

By: Greg Pomes

Greg Pomes — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 17:58:58 +0000

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!

By: Rafael

Rafael — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 17:53:47 +0000

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.

By: Alex68

Alex68 — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 17:29:58 +0000

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

By: Joey D.

Joey D. — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 16:52:58 +0000

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?

By: hotstreak

hotstreak — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 15:27:58 +0000

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.

By: Metsie

Metsie — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 15:24:19 +0000

When you say Postseason I assume you mean the NHL! LOL

By: hotstreak

hotstreak — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 15:23:17 +0000

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.

By: Metsie

Metsie — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 15:22:41 +0000

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!

By: stick

stick — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 15:17:49 +0000

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.

By: stick

stick — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 15:10:44 +0000

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.

By: Alex68

Alex68 — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 15:09:19 +0000

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.

By: stick

stick — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 15:08:21 +0000

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.

By: hotstreak

hotstreak — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 14:59:42 +0000

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.

By: Alex68

Alex68 — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 14:55:25 +0000

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!

By: Joe D

Joe D — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 14:43:28 +0000

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.