At Least 12 Teams Would Be Interested In Trading For Dickey

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• TX November 5, 2012 at 11:08 am

  Dickey, in a New York Minute.
• Gina November 5, 2012 at 11:16 am

  I say keep both of them. I thought we were building these last two years to be a contending team in 2014? So why would you want to trade your top two starters? Who replaces them? This would make no sense and all the support I’ve had for the front office would shift in a New York minute if he trades either of these two players who we will need to be competitive in 2014.
• Alex68 November 5, 2012 at 11:26 am

  Trade this guy while his value is as high as it is.. We’re on rebuild mode and it shouldn’t be a secret anymore.. Sell high on dickey, he’d never be as good as he was this year… He’s cheap and team might be willing to trade a top prospect for him.. Trade the guy now!!!
  • Heybatter November 5, 2012 at 6:30 pm

    I disagree….they should have traded him yesterday! LoL
• Hodges14 November 5, 2012 at 11:27 am

  You have to trade Dickey now while his value is at its highest. If he’s on the team come opening day, I would consider Alderson’s offseason a failure to be honest.
  • TX November 5, 2012 at 11:48 am

    I disagree that it would be an utter failure. If he just stays for one year, you have options. If he was great, you try to work out a deal and at the very least, you get a pick when he walks. If he is mediocre, well, you can try to work a deal and if he does walk, we’ll you saved yourself a large expenditure on an advanced age pitcher. You can always trade him mid season, if needed. And lastly, it would keep the rotation in order for the coming year, buying some time on having to rush up Wheeler.

    Now, the above said, trading him now would maximize the return. You can get 2+ prospects back on him, still have a decent rotation and fill in holes (and there are many) to get the team closer to competing at a higher level. Just my 2 cents.
    • Just_Da_Damaja November 5, 2012 at 11:53 am

      A – The mets are not going to be able to afford Dickey after this season…..

      that being the case…If the mets can get a TOP 10 prospect or maybe 2 top 20′s for Dickey…u have to make that move ASAP

      organization wise, right now we have holes at SS, 2B, 3B, 1B, C, CF, LF, RF

      yes i consider SS vacant…Ruben Tejada’s clock started 3 years ago…it wont be long til he is “unaffordable”…

      same with Murph

      same with Ike

      same with Duda…
      • TX November 5, 2012 at 11:56 am

        A – why? Santana and Bay’s monetary obligations are no longer there.
      • Metsie November 5, 2012 at 12:16 pm

        “A – The mets are not going to be able to afford Dickey after this season…..”

        The solution to that problem is to find a way to get more fans to go to the park not trade Dickey who will have the opposite affect!

        These “Can’t Afford” excuses are not going to be solved by letting players go or trading them for cheap kids.

        It’s just going to cause you to say the same thing every year for a decade until there is no one left to trade and are forced to spend money to get the fans back.

        They should get off thier 100Mil target and at minimum move the target to 110Mil.
        Use the 10 Mil to get a good OFer who might give fans hope and inspire them to go see the team so they can afford keeping the good players they have next year and beyond!
        • Just_Da_Damaja November 5, 2012 at 6:45 pm

          Keeping Dickey = poor attendance in 2013-2014-2015-2016…

          Trading Dickey for a top CF or SS prospect = poor attendance in 2013…with the possibility that the prospect(s) we traded for produces results in 2014….

          Ditto for Wright…

          And what the Wilpons DONT tell you is that they have a sh*tload of deferred contracts they have to pay, without the Madoff accounts they invested their contracts in…

          so when they say the payroll is 90 mil…they are NOT counting the 30-40 mil in backpay they have to give Beltran, Santana, Martinez, Glavine, Saberhagen, Bonilla, Wagner, etc, etc

          they promised to pay those guys back WITH INTEREST

          and they never tell u about that…but i am for damn sure they have that on their books…

          they cant tell u that b/c it just highlights the fact that they have been riding on Bernie Madoff money for decades….they wanna brush that under the rug as much as possible…

          thats why they will lie and say they owe Johan Santana 31 mil this year….thats BS….

          They owe Santana 25 mil…and 5.5 is deferred…so its really 20 mil..the buyout is null and void if they trade Santana, the team that gets him executes the buyout….

          its possible if the mets trade Santana in July,, they only pay him 12.5 mil this year…

          but Sandy will still tell u they owe him 31 mil…

          but WONT tell you they owe Santana 5.5 mil WITH INTEREST for the next 7 years….

          DITTO Carlos Beltran (2004 ) …Saberhagen (1995)…Bonilla (2000) …etc…etc….

          smoke and mirrors brother…u gotta do the research to see past this attorney’s BS…
    • Hodges14 November 5, 2012 at 11:58 am

      It’s a big risk keeping him. What if he has a mediocre year, will the Mets give him a qualifying offer of $14.5 million? His trade value goes from getting two great prospects to one good prospect if he’s traded mid season. I’ll respectfully agree to disagree with you. I would see this is a failure, just like not trading Hairston at the trade deadline.
• GameGeezer November 5, 2012 at 11:32 am

  Sorry, when this franchise has been successful it’s been on it’s pitching.
  You don’t trade good pitching if you can absolutely help it.
  I vote to trade neither.
  Trading Nolan Ryan, Seaver, McGraw and David Cone really worked out well for us
  didn’t it?
• Metsie November 5, 2012 at 11:41 am

  Am I the only person here that finds it completly rediculous that we are on the verge of having what could be the best starting rotation this franchise has seen since 86 and most fans are happy, content and in a rush to trade it away?
• Matt November 5, 2012 at 12:16 pm

  Wow…a bunch of teams interested in acquiring a Cy Young candidate who is making $5 million this season…great reporting.
• Metstheory22 November 5, 2012 at 1:29 pm

  Dickey would be my choice to trade as he is ALREADY 38 and by time we get better he could done. Sell high on him and maybe get a good prospect or ready player for him.
• Ray Savage November 5, 2012 at 4:01 pm

  Trading Niese makes no sense. Not only is he young and left handed, but there is not one other left handed option in their farm system. How could they possibly replace him?
• Barry Duchan November 5, 2012 at 4:32 pm

  Trading David Cone actually got the Mets a young player who is probably a future Hall of Famer in Jeff Kent.who wasn’t even the main piece coming back to the Mets.
  • GameGeezer November 5, 2012 at 6:36 pm

    Except all his really stellar years were after he left the Mets and was with the Giants, Houston and the Dodgers. I also seem to remember him being ostracized by his teammates on the Mets for being a bad tempered prima donna. So I still think holding on to Cone would have been the better choice.
    • Just_Da_Damaja November 5, 2012 at 6:55 pm

      Cone was traded b/c he was entering his free-agent year…and the mets wouldnt be able to afford him…

      Same with Reyes….

      Same with Strawberry….

      Same with Wright….

      Same with Fonzie….

      Almost every home-grown player we ever groom…we let go because we magically cant afford him…

      the answer?

      buy out free-agent years early…add on club options….make the tough call when players are 35….NOT when they are 29

      We should’ve locked up 5 players by now…

      Tejada
      Murphy
      Duda
      Ike
      Niese

      we only did 1…
• jerseymet November 5, 2012 at 4:50 pm

  Trade them both but bundle them with bad contracts eg Bay, Santana and Francisco. Sandy is about cutting costs. Get it over with.
• Guy November 5, 2012 at 5:09 pm

  Dickey, he’s older and Niese is a young lefthander which aren’t easy to come by.
• Shawn November 5, 2012 at 7:19 pm

  Dickey by far. I thought they should have traded him at the trade deadline since the Mets are rebuilding. He’s a great guy and all can he repeat another season even close to what he had in 2012. Niese is still young and would fit in well with their group upcoming starters ….. Harvey, Wheeler..etc..
• nymess November 5, 2012 at 7:23 pm

  If the mets find themselves unable to resign david wright and/ or RA Dickey, I would explore the following trades:

  RA Dickey to the D-backs for one of their top lefthanders: Chafin or Corbin along with Parra and another piece.

  Wright to the Bluejays for D’arnaud, Justin Nicolino, and either Gose or Marisnick

  Flip Duda to the Rays for Mikie Mahtook and/ or Enny Romero.

  These three trades would address all of the mets’ major holes: catching with D’arnuad, the outfield short term with Parra (who would make a great 4th outfielder when then younger guys are ready) and long term with Mahtook and one or the blue jays, and give us 3 lefthanded pitching prospects.
  • Hitman November 5, 2012 at 8:46 pm

    Try this one:

    Santana (eat $15 million), Mazzoni, Pill, Duda, and Den Dekker for Hellickson and Jennings?
• Bernard Larsen November 5, 2012 at 10:05 pm

  Trade Dickey now. If you wait until during the season when the METS are god awfully terrible he will probably not be performing at the level he did last year and we’ll get less. Don’t make him a qualifying offer than hope to get a draft pick because you’re going to get someone too far away from helping the ball club in next 2-3 years. Now we could probably get someone’s prospects (probably two top 20 from a team) and a somewhat serviceable major league player.
• Sach November 5, 2012 at 10:33 pm

  I agree with Matt Cerrone in that R.A. Dickey and Jon Niese are tied to one another. If Sandy can sign The Dickster to a reasonable contract extension of just 2 guaranteed years because of his age with a vestible option for a 3rd year based on his IP in 2015 at 12MM per this offseason then I think Jon Niese is tradeable this offseason for some young starting OF piece. The way I see it if the Dickster re-ups and Niese is traded this offseason, the top of the Mets SP rotation starting some time in the middle of next season and moving forward sets up as Dickey, Harvey and Wheeler. Im obviously not counting Santana here. In this case scenerio, I think Niese becomes a fairly expensive ( for the Mets ) 5MM in 2014 and 7MM in 2015 4 SP. I think most are overvaluing Niese because he’s a young, cost- controlled LH SP. Niese to myself has already reached his ceiling- a credible but inconsistent 3SP that has averaged only 5.96 IP per start in his big league career so far. I also don’t think its such a wise idea to have all young SPs in your SP rotation without Dickey and obviously Johan moving forward. I like the idea of the soild, steady innings eating ace SP atop the 2 young guns- Harvey and Wheeler moving forward. As for the only LHP in the Mets SP rotation with respect to Niese, to my knowledge TC likes Darin Gorski the little he’s seen of him and most likely Sandy is going to protect Gorski on the 40 man roster. And its not a stretch of the imagination at all to feel Gorski within 2 years might develop into a credible 4SP in the bigs.
• pain November 6, 2012 at 8:10 am

  if the Mets are going to be a future contender it’s time to trade Wright, Dickey, Santana and Niese. These chips will build you a solid balanced team going forward
• mattimar November 7, 2012 at 12:36 pm

  Cannot trade Wright. Let Santana pitch a bit and if he does well then trade him. Cannot trade Niese (they will be looking for a young left hander immediately after trading him). Not sold on Tejada, certainly not sold on him as a lead off hitter. This organization is a mess.