hahahaha ok now I know what I’m dealing with….POOF goes your credibility!

Only 26 out of 1280 Roster spots hit over .300!

SO whatever your smoking send some this way….

I’m not sure where you got the idea I think no player is worth $100 million. That’s simply not true. It all depends on their OBP, power, injury history and defense, and intangibles. And I do think Wright is worth $100 million.

In what universe?

A 4 time All Star….
The team Leader in RS Every year after 2004 except 2009 when he got hurt…

Thats not worth 100 Mil?

If thats what you think then you don’t think ANY player is worth more it…

Which means enjoy Watching the Hairstons and Ramirez’ the rest of your Met life.

Guess Wright isn’t worth it either right?

I believe most polls on Metsblog had fans wanting Reyes to stay by a huge majority. He was way more liked than he was criticized by Mets fans.

Was he worth $100 million? Personally, I don’t think so. Who said just because you win one batting title you are suddenly worth $100 million? It would be different if his career BA were high. But it wasn’t.

Reyes over-priced himself for the Mets. He’d still be here, however, if it weren’t for the crazy antics of Loria.

Then he took himself out of a meaningless game, You should have heard the whining and trashing that day….

And many would not have signed Reyes to even a 100M contract.
He wasn’t greedy he got paid what a Batting champ gets thats all

Anyone who complains he is greedy is just pissed he wouldn’t play for peanuts and most of them really didn’t want him to stay for any price…

SOmething about PURGING the memory of 2007-2010

All dumb reactionary reasoning but thats what they did!

I really didn’t see that. There are always going to be some fans who don’t like some players. I think most Mets fans wanted Reyes to stay right up till he signed with the Marlins.

The problem is the anger towards Reyes started long before he left!

Of course there was anger toward Reyes. There is towards almost every free agent home grown player who leaves his team for the most money — and especially when they go to what is perceived as an inferior team. Even in St. Louis there were some negative comments about Pujols after he left. And he was a much better player for St. Louis than Reyes was for the Mets.

Sure you can load up on two or three kids if you trade him, but that won’t work or be enough if you haven’t already got most of it done already via the draft.

Do you really think after a draft and a half (since he passed on half of last year’s picks) that we are really less than three years away from being rebuilt?

If not those two or three kids are not doing a thing for you and you might as well keep the player who get people out to the park so you don’t lose even MORE money.

and the dimensions are pretty fair now. this will never ( and should never ) be a band-box

Nothing like a good dialogue for those insomoniacs who can’t get to sleep at 2 in the morning, either LOL!

Fortunately, I am off for the rest of the week so can stay up late.

Hey, you too – a wonderful Thanksgiving for you and yours.

Now let’s try and get some sleep!

Nothing like good dialogue which I enjoy.

Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family.

Enjoyed the well thought out points by you as well.

I’m hoping for the best and would indeed not mind at all eating crow if proven wrong.

Spending and playing FA now doesn’t stop you or inhibit you from building your Minors and creating what it is you percieve the Braves did….

Moneyball will never sell here. No sales and no financial fix which means if and when you get all those kids you want to have you won’t be able to fill in around them with good players or go and get that ONE BAT/ARM that makes it all work like the Braves did with Maddux.

The myth is you have to not spend and only draft.
But you CAN do both!
And by doing so you solve BOTH the issue of a weak MiL system and Weak Finances.

Because the Fans will go to see those guys you bought until the kids are ready.

Cashen did that!
He also had 5 top 10 First rounders to work with.
Only hit on two which just goes to show you how hard building what you want really is unless your very good, very lucky and somehow find the way to sign everyone you bothered to draft.

Sandy is never going to get you what you want.
He is going to give us Moneyball and pay more attention to the Financial Stat sheet than the baseball metrics.

Just look at what he has done so far he has brought in more 30 Year olds than kids.
reyes, Beltran and K-Rod gone and the only kid of worth he has to show for it is Wheeler.

Well said. Tough decisions which SA will be judged upon his tenure as GM with the Mets. Let’s hope the right decisions are made.

I agree with you 100 percent on all the points you just made. That’s what I wish for the club too. I wouldn’t mind if we resemble the Braves of the late eighties with Dale Murphy as we also strive to be the franchise that during that same period was also planting the seeds for sprouting the consistency that it has seen now for two decades. Atlanta and St. Louis have proved that could be done without bankrupting both the roster payroll and the minor league system. I feel both these franchises should not be compared to the Don Mattingly-era Yankees for all the Boss did was to recklessly and unsuccessfully try to buy himself a championship with marquee players and that is not what I want for the Mets to do either.

What I do wish was that we retained the good players we had and made prudent signings and/or trades to compliment them but for that to have happened, Bernie Madoff would have had to be out of the picture (in fact, if Madoff had never been a source of revenue for them, the Wilpons might very well would not have had the capital to buy the Mets to begin with).

So at this point, we have been put into a position where we will have to experience those growing pains and nobody can predict what that child might turn out to be so those pains might be longer than we care to think of. But for the moment, they could be less painful with David and R.A. in the semblance of the Mets still having something special we as fans can hang on to and for the Wilpons too in the sense that it would avoid the further decline in attendance sending both of them off most certainly would cause.

I also think that if Sandy has any understanding of human factors at all he should recognize that Zack Wheeler could use the helping hand of a Dickey to get him through the pressure he is going to feel being caught in the middle of a fierce war between the pro and anti Sandy forces that even the GM has to be aware exists. I doubt there are enough neutrals out there at this point to offset both factions, anyway.

But I tpp would be shocked if Sandy does re-sign and retain both players for that indeed goes against the very foundation of his business principles.

The Dimensions are STILL large even with the fences moved in.

Mets in 2014-2019 without Wright = competing

Hopefully this simplifies things for you

If we trade Wright to Toronto for Anthony Gose, Travis D’Anard, and Kyle Drabek….we get a legit CF prospect, a legit C prospect and a young controllable SP with top talent

When/If Santana proves healthy, we can trade ( and pay his entire remaining salary ) to a contender for another b-level prospect

If we resign Dickey, then great…

If not….trade Dickey + Duda + Murphy + Valdespin + Mejia to Tex for Olt and Jurickson Profur ( u know you have to give up talent to get talent )

Texas gets their 1B and Dickey at a cheap rate, enough so they can afford a CF replacement for Josh

Mets get their new young right side of the infield…

Mets move Tejada to 2B….

New Met infield, all under age 26

C – Travis ( 23 )
1B – Davis ( 25 )
2B – Tejada ( 22 )
SS – Profur ( 20 )
3B – Olt ( 23 )

LF – Hairston ( 33 )
CF – Torres ( 103 )
RF – Kirk ( 26 )

Also it was reported that Boston tried trading for Jose Reyes as well

Most of the Met fans that dont like Reyes want him to fail and would hate to see Reyes simply remaining healthy and having a good career, living up to his contract…

Nothing worse than having to eat crow