17
2012
Mets Made Dickey A Two Year Offer
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Updated 6:20 PM
Major League sources tell Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports that the Mets plan to offer R.A. Dickey a two-year contract extension…
The New York Mets could be on the verge of a breakthrough in their negotiations with National League Cy Young Award winner R.A. Dickey.
Or, maybe not.
The Mets plan to offer Dickey a two-year contract extension, according to major league sources. Whether Dickey would accept such a deal remains to be seen.
The Daily News adds this…
Team made a two-year offer to Dickey approximately two weeks ago, and both sides have been negotiating the dollars. As we’ve reported, Mets know he’ll take a two-year deal. A trade is still in play of course.
Negotiations between the Mets and ace R.A. Dickey have been ongoing since they began approximately two weeks ago with a two-year offer to Dickey, according to Mets sources. The two sides continue to discuss money and other terms.
The 38-year-old Dickey, who last week became just the third Mets’ pitcher to win the National League Cy Young Award, is believed to be willing to accept a deal that is probably less than the two-year, $29-million deal Jake Peavy has with the White Sox.
As the Daily News has been reporting, the Mets know that Dickey is willing to sign a two-year contract. He is under contract to the Mets for the 2013 season for $5 million.
This is more like snooze than it is news. This was already reported last week, and nothing’s really changed. It’s just old news being recycled on a slow news day…
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2000 calories of artery clogging delight. At least we know what you will work for!
SurfingTheMets: 1 more thing about Dickey. It has become clear in negotiations that he will sign for a deal comparable to, & likely less than, Peavy’s 2/29.
Buster_ESPN: Sources: R.A. Dickey wants more than $10 million a year, if he were to agree to a two-year extension for 2014-2015.
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The rumor mill on Dickey is running hot and heavy today.
“The rumor mill on Dickey is running hot and heavy today.”
Was thinking the same thing.
Since they gave Ollie 12 MIL a year for 3 years, Dickey should be worth no less, even if he’s willing to take a two year contract. Dickey is clearly worth more than Ollie ever was.
I wonder if 13 or 14 MIL per year for 2 years would get it done.
I’m wondering would 2 years $28M with options that would take it slightly past $30M plus a vesting option for a 3rd year as well gets it done?
Vesting option or team option maybe.
If he does wind up signing for 2 years guaranteed, I’d like to see a team option for a 3rd year. What if he’s very solid for the next 2 years? Would be worth picking up a team option for a 3rd year, especially since outside of Harvey and Niese, do we really know what the rotation will look like in a couple of years? I’d like to slide Wheeler in there as well, but that still leaves 2 spots open. Johan should be long gone and don’t know about Gee.
Exactly! It doesn’t hurt to have such an option for RAD!
They have to give him more than Perez, I agree. They also have to make up for the fact he only gets $5 million this year. I would go two years, $28MM.
That parm looks scary.
I bet he is traded and get a three year extension. Dickey’s market value dollars are in the range of 12.5 M to 15M per yea. If amount per year is the problem and if they agreed on two years its 25 M or 30M deal or a difference of 5M. It does not makse sense the deal is not done. It’s the number of years holding it up.
If you think this is all bogus or just recycled shit, and it probably is, why post it?
Forget Dickey, where can I get that sandwich?
Sigh… TRADE HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If they sign Dickey, I think Wright signs too.
This just in:
Sandy Alderson has contacted Metsmerized and wants to know if that Chicken Parm is capable of at least 175 IP next year
Actually he should contact Metsmerized to get some trade, player movement ideas because the fan base here does a better job of roster building than he does.
lol. oh man.
Don’t go so light on the cheese, please!
Oh Joe,
Isn’t it interesting that if you take that chicken parm out of the foil wrapping and put it on a nice dinner plate with the hero roll on a separate bread plate it would look less unhealthy even though it’s still the same?
That’ the same illusion the Mets have been trying to give us the past two years. But instead of chicken, we’re given bull.
Stop talking about it and just do it. The Met organization does a lot of talking and accomplishes nothing at all. Improve the team and just shut up about it. I’m still not buying tickets until they make an effort to contend and I’ll think about purchasing tickets from these crooks.
Hi Brian,
And that is why both the Wilpons and Sandy don’t see the long-term damage they’ve created. Even when the Wilpons start re-investing in the team after Sandy has left, fans like you and I will still have second thoughts about giving them our hard earned money. As it was, many of us stopped going due to the ticket prices anyway, not willing to take out a small loan for a family outing.
This is so rediculous…..once they start winning, you and everybody else will come back
I am always amazed at the boycott the Wilpon people who state they refuse to go to the game because they are not giving them one dollar of their money. I heard this rant from a guy on another blog and I simply asked “do you watch them on SNY”? Of course he did not understanding that he was basically supporting the same people.
If Dickey said he’d take a 2 year deal, and the Mets offered a 2 year 2 weeks ago, what’s the delay? Did they offer him a 2 year, $12 million deal and lowball him?
$12 million…are you crazy…the Mets offered no more than 2 years $50,000/year.
Nothing personal to the actual author but anyone on this site using the name Dick Young Lives has a warped sense of humor….Next to M Donald Grant….Dick Young in my book is as “vilified” as can be in Met history
I would think that Dickey getting a GUARANTEED two year deal in the 28 Million vicinity should get the job done. The Mets get a break by having him on the cheap for 2012 at just under 5 million bucks.
Wouldn’t be surprised if he wanted one other perk after seeing what happened to Jose Reyes…. a no trade to TORONTO! LOL
Here is a dream of a thought…..With the idea of getting out from under the contracts of Jason Bay (albeit deferred) and Johann Santana after this next year Mets make a decision to shoot the works and make a trade with the Marlins for Stanton. We send Flores, Valdespin and two pitching prospects to Miami (other than Harvey and Wheeler).
Oops…… Slapped myself to wake up !
I personally don’t care much about how much he signs for as longs as he signs on the dotted line soon.
Does anyone here have an ESPN Insider subscription? Buster Olney has a piece on ESPN’s insider section about how the Wilpons must either find a way to re-sign Dickey or sell the team. The problem is that I don’t have an insider subscription so it only lets me read the first couple paragraphs.
http://insider.espn.go.com/mlb/blog/_/name/olney_buster/id/8638494/new-york-mets-ownership-re-sign-ra-dickey-sell-team-mlb
Can someone take a look and let the rest of us know what you think of Olney’s reasoning?