Nov
26
2012
26
2012
Mets Acquire Infielder Brandon Hicks From Oakland For Cash
An article by Hojo's Mojo
The Mets announced that they have acquired infielder Brandon Hicks from the Oakland A’s for cash considerations.
Hicks, 27, hit .172 with three home runs and seven RBI in 64 at-bats over 22 games with the A’s last season.
He also batted .244 with 18 homers and 61 RBIs in 328 at-bats with Triple-A Sacramento.
In his major league career, Hicks has started 19 games at shortstop and one apiece at first base, second base and third base. It is now more likely that Ronny Cedeno will nor be back next season.
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I like the pickup. Hicks is a right-handed power bat, which is exactly what the Mets need. He’s had back-to-back 18 HR seasons in AAA and got his SLG pct over .500 this year.
Nice option off the bench or as a mid-season call-up, and we got him for almost nothing.
yeah and I just found a quarter on the floor, now i don’t have to go to the store to break a twenty in order to get change for the meter.
When’s the press conference?
I never said this is THE high-impact signing of the offseason.
Hicks will probably have very little influence on how many games the Mets win next year, it’s just like, why not add another piece to a puzzle that’s lacking a lot of components.
3 years ago, the Mets signed a nobody Minor League free agent named R.A. Dickey for next to nothing. How’d that work out?
I’m just saying there’s always gonna be that diamond in the ruff, Hicks probably wont turn out to be anything, but you cant knock a move like this. There’s nothing NOT to like.
Dickey was an unusal case cause he was a knuckleballer. This guy is just a typical 4A player. 115 K’s in 90 games in AAA isn’t going to translate well in the majors. And he’s alreadt 27, so don’t expect that much improvement.
Hi John,
I think the sarcasm expressed toward this move is not about the move itself, but more about the frustration that these are the only types of moves this FO is making.
We got him for almost nothing because he has almost no value. He’s just a typical 4A player and nothing more.
Yeah uh, cant forget that career .241avg in the minors…..
Bobby Scales and Fred Lewis would rather play in Japan than in the MLB with the Mets lol
I guess there is more money in the till after all because Sandy is signing more scrubs now than in the past 2 years it seems.
Unbelievable. And people will actually defend this.
What exactly is the downside to this move?
Nice pick up for our AAA team in Vegas. Those 18 hrs become 25 in Vegas..Nice work, very impressed. (SARCASM)
Glad to see we’re stocking the AAA team. I worry that that team is going to be playing in Queens and not Vegas.
Same here lol
I think the Mets are trying to set the record for the most minor league acquisitions in one offsesaon.
I can see the whiners are out. This is the same type of move as last off season when the Mets signed Quintanilla who was the only guy at one point near the major leagues who could play SS. Ironic how we have an organization that hasnt produced but a couple of middle infielders in 10 years and people complain. Where are all the prospects who are ready to play SS and 2B at AAA?
Turning around a garbage organization does not happen overnight.
What about Tejada and V-Spin? Sure they aren’t perfect, but who is especially in your first year starting?
Oh and we didn’t we have a guy named Reyes who was pretty good?
Do you not read? I wrote a “but a couple of middle infielders”.
Reyes, Tejada, and Valdy is not a very good track record over the course of 10 years or so.
Well from 2006 to 2008 they had chances to win with Reyes and whoever was at 2B and they lost those big games.
From 2002 to 2005 they weren’t good but that was also the transition from Alfonzo to Reyes
And Mets had Alfonzo and Ordonez from 1998-2001 when they were either contending for the post season or making the postseason.
So that leaves a 3 year gap so should they have filled that span too and this way your appetite for starting SS & 2B would have been whetted from 1995 to present. But you’d still complain and you know why? Because the bottom line is the Mets had chances to maintain some kind of dynasty or some kind of continuous success from 1998 to 2009 but you know what?
THEY LOST! They had chances and they lost the biggest baseball games in franchise history whenever it was presented to them.
Somehow play on the field has lost out to putting all responsibilities on front offices and that’s wrong. That’s the built-in excuse for Second Guessers and the flaskmaster is starting to rate right up there with t-agee as the biggest second guessing fools around. They have all the answers and everything figured out years AFTER the games when they’ve had time to look back and go ahhh…so this is how is should’ve been done.
And why do we always have to go back so far in time to prove a point? We are always going back 10, 20 years or whatever. If you have to go that far back in time to prove a point about the current team, then you don’t have a point at all.
I’m just worried about now and the future. I don’t give a damn if the Mets didn’t have a homegrown SS in 2002 or 1992 – It’s irrelevant. All those GM’s aren’t with the team anymore, and those players are all retired. It’s ancient history and it has no effect on today’s team.
So why must we KEEP harping on them?
You made it seem like the Alderson inherited nothing at the middle infield position, so I listed the players he inherited, and they are nothing to complain about.
Where are all the prospects who are ready to play SS and 2B at AAA?
1.Reese Havens 2B
2.Sean Kazmar 2B,SS
3.Wilfredo Tovar 2B,SS
4.Josh Rodriguez 2B,SS
5.Josh Satin 1B,2B,3B
6.Wilmer Flores 2B,3B,SS
7.Brad Emaus 2B
8.Michael Fisher 2B
and the countless other available free agents
not saying this move shouldnt have been made but……”THE NATIVES ARE RESTLESS”
Thats why we get pissed at these moves because these are the same moves we make every year since Sandy came aboard so until he brings in talent to improve the team everything he does will be scrutinized…..The honey moon is OVER!
And it wasn’t a garbage organization to begin with. Even Alderson himself at his hiring said the team had a good nucleus. You’re so full of shit in your posts so please don’t pretend to be an objective observer stating a case because you’re NOT.
Garbage organization…that is exactly what the Mets were. 20 years, $2B spent 0 WS. 3 Playoff appearances. Broke Owners. A ballpark the pays homage to a team that plays 3,000 miles away. A GM who gets into a fight with a reporter and botches the firing of his manager. And the guy he hired to replace him was the guy who would be tried for insubordination if this was the military. Clubhouse attendant on trial. A reliever beating up his father in law. A bullpen that ranks at the bottom…5 years running. A medical staff that is an outright comedy. Only 2 homegrown guys who made all star appearances in this century. A VP of player development picking fights with the AA team and other members of the organization.
If you think this is a class organization with a winning mindset you are way off base. The Mets organization is pathetic from top to bottom when Alderson walked in. How much better off they are now is debatable. But at least they are not going in the same direction they did the last 20 years which amounted to nothing of significance.
Open your eyes.
yep, no big franchise turning games were played in 20 years. You’re so full of your second guessing shit juice it’s pathetic.
Why don’t you point out more examples of things that had NOTHING to do with losing big games while you’re at it.
I’m imagining the team meetings- my god how life imitates art…
I’ve never heard of half of these guys and the ones I do know are way past their prime.
Most of these guys never had a prime.
This guy here is dead!
Cross him off, then!
“I think he’ll fit right in with our team concept.”
“That reminds me, I was going to ask you. What exactly ‘is’ our team concept?”
LMAO!!!!
“What exactly ‘is’ our team concept?””
TRASH COLLECTORS!!!
Ones man trash is another mans, the Mets in this case….Treasure
Is there a guy who hits under .200 that this Front office doesn’t love?
I mean really I understand they don’t want to spend or waste money on GOOD players but wasting it on guys who get one hit every 10 PA is even more wasted than 5 Mil on a guy like Pagan.
I guess these clowns really DO mean in when they say batting average isn’t important because judging by the waterfall of garbage minor league signings by Alderson at least he’s backing that philosophy up with action. These guys have no batting average.
Oh and to the flaskmaster’s credit at least he was the only person to post the cost of minor league signings. They range from 39K to 79K i believe it was so add all that up over the course of 3 years and let’s see how much money Alderson has wasted on this baloney.
This is an insult to Mets fans. This brand new epidemic of an extraordinary amount of garbage signings of guys that don’t hit .200 and pitchers with ERAs over 6.00 is a complete insult to this entire fan base and for any jerk who defends this type of “team building” you get what you deserve.
Can’t understand the priorities, money and time wasted for acquisitions like these in lieu of the fact that whatever cash consideration given to Oakland combined with Hicks’ major league salary could have been used to make up the difference in slot money that we didn’t want to give to Stankie along with signing more of those bottom half draft selections. That, and the fact that it is more than likely that Brandon will be given his release sometime next season makes it even more a waste.
And if Hicks is seriously being considered as utility infielder, that means it come to the point that Sandy has found a way to even downgrade from that of a Ronnie Cedeno. Granted, there are many much more qualified utility players out there than Ronnie but Brandon? At least Cedeno guarantees some sort of bat coming off the bench besides his ability to be a not good but adequate fill-in with the glove at several infield positions.
No, it’s just that Cedeno cost $1.2 million that he was granted free agency and will still make more than twice as much as Hicks will – if he isn’t cut before opening day – and that probably includes the cash necessary to have purchased his contract.
The Mets have “cash considerations”?? Who knew?
Hi Matt,
It sure as hell ain’t going to be our cash…..
I’d like to point out that a few months ago I did pretty decent at the batting cages. Yea, it was on medium speed but I ripped a few pretty good.
So, Sandy, if you’re interested, I’m available too
Who would you rather have on your bench Brandon Hicks or Ronny Cedano?
So we downgraded our previously downgraded bench even more with the Hicks pick up?
The Mets had been paying Cedano what? a little over a million a year? Hicks is paid the min. sal.
Cedano is 30′ish? good solid pro middle infielder 3rd and 1st in a pinch..
Looks to me like we just downgraded to save $500,000 or so..
Not cool Sandy! NOt cool!
I’m with Matt.
Who the hell knew we had cash?
This is basically the 2013 Omar Quintanilla.
Tovar isn’t ready for AAA yet and Las Vegas needed a SS.
With injuries to middle infielders for the Mets, Hicks could get the call at some point.
And I’m afraid that we’ll get to enjoy spiteful posts about this organization with every of the 15 or so AAA veteran signings pretty much every team makey in a winter….
I find it hilarious that you people are in here griping over organizational depth. Moves that EVERY team makes but you just don’t hear about because you only read Mets news. and it’s always the same people. The morons who think that every team wants to give the Mets all their good major league players. Its pathetic. and what’s funnier is this guy actually has some pop, who can maybe come off the bench and put one out, which this team is screaming for, and it’s STILL a problem. Oh, it’s because he doesn’t have a good batting average.
The San Francisco Giants just signed Omar Javier to a minor league contract. Javier just put up a WHIP of 1.73 and 64/56 K/BB in INDEPENDANT ball.
Go ahead guys, start with the Sabean/Giants jokes. Oh wait they just won the world series.
So only championship teams can fill their minor league rosters?…My bad.
Organizational Depth?
the guy hits under .200 and just about any kid off the street could hit that and all he would need to get paid is minimum wage!
This guy is not depth hes just a waste of money…
Promote a kid in AA to play there….
Trade someone to get something better….
I can’t even believe they wasted the time to look at him!
Hi CB,
We wouldn’t be wasting our time and trouble to discuss these moves if there weren’t representative of the typical ones Sandy makes. For other clubs, these are indeed stories that are buried in the last few lines of the baseball stories for the day – but not for the Mets.
And we shouldn’t assume that Hicks is going to comefrom the Western Division Champion A’s and just be given a spot on the Mets roster all at once – it might take a few days or so during spring training.
My god, first this bum is acquire and i almost puke, not the mets offer mr wright an extension:
http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/mets/post/_/id/58973/report-mets-finally-make-wright-offer
This is his value, he’s not worth this kind of money, but at $16 mill per i can live with having the guy at 3rd base.. We’ll see how GREEDY he truly is or isn’t. This is more than fair for him, It’s his turn to backup his words when he said it’s not all about money it’s about winning.. then we’ll see whether he is a man of his words or just another greedy ballplayer