Forgot to mention one important thing – this was at Citi Field shortly before the game and those were two tickets in upper promenade 526. Perhaps they had a child with them who was getting in for free and thus wanted more than just two for the price of one or…., being that it was section 526 they weren’t interested in seats with left field cut off.

My wife and I were out to dinner when the rains came pouring down in Larchmont and my better half expressed concern because our booth had a very large window and all those warnings to stay away from windows…..

was reading the philly paper today, and there was a piece on what Amaro has to do in the off season, and a lot of it was about 3B. It was pretty clear that the FA market was crap, so if you don’t have a prospect ready, and don’t have the chips to pull off a major trade, you are going to be playing crap over there.

of course, that makes Wright even more valuable to a team that has a hole at 3B, and is short a good RH bat to complete the offense. too bad the obvious team in that situation is actually the Phils! thought the Braves (almost as bad) are too.

Unfortunately, Citi Field is already a morgue.

Somebody I know was at the game yesterday with friends who had two extra tickets and he was unable to sell them, even at two for the price of one. My only guess is that were others even giving them away for less

Anyway, there certainly are a myriad of possibilities or this offseason. This is the make or break with Alderson, and we’ll know if he passes or fails come the start of next season.

Get rid of the guys who Make Wright have to carry the team and replace THEM with someone they think could carry the team!

Bad way to decide on who to keep and who to trade isn’t it?

You can’t build a team based on guys who can carry an offense because there isn’t a player in the MLB who can do that without some good hitters there to help him.

It’s rediculous to expect Wright to carry this team. But it’s not dumb to think that someone else WITH David wright could possibly carry the team together!

in theory, you could look at it as trading say Wright for BJ upton, a ML ready catcher that can actually catch/hit + a CF prospect to step in. Plus the mets have another 5-6 mill to spend on a SP or more BP help. maybe even get a guy like Flores up early to break him in.

entirely possible that in that scenario, the team is better overall, O and D combined.

something like that.

players always say that (or really their agents do) as a negotiating ploy. And just as often, a deal ends up happening.

not like the player actually negotiates. The agent does, and at the end, player has to say yes or no.

so if it got to be may and the team went to the agent to tell them they expanded the budget and can offer a big deal, but they need to do it now, the agent will listen.

but at least it would be a tie breaker of sorts. If the braves (or yanks) offered a significantly better package, take it. But if the deals on the table were relatively comparable, then expect him to get shipped farther away.