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2012
Wright Updates: Being Named Captain, Making More Than Johan, New Deal Replaces Option
An article by Hojo's Mojo
Andy Martino of the Daily News also reports that the deal is an eight-year deal and that it replaces the 2013 option. The eight year, $138 million dollar contract essentially voids the option year contract.
Craig Calcaterra of NBC Sports writes that that it was very important for David Wright to make more money than Johan Santana‘s $137.5 million deal and thus become the highest-paid player in New York Mets history “out of pride.” Joel Sherman of the NY Post getting more than Santana was no coincidence.
According to Anthony DiComo of MLB.com, Terry Collins will ask David Wright to become the official team captain of the New York Mets. If Wright accepts, he would become the first official team captain since closer John Franco retired.
USA Today’s Bob Nightengale reports that the Mets will not officially announce the deal today because Wright will have to pass a physical and other minor issues. An official press conference at Citi Field could come after the Winter Meetings in Nashville.
I’ll keep updating this post as more news filters in.
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Out of pride, had to make more than Johan? Give me a break. So what, now, no player can EVER make more than he does because he’s Captain? Check your ego at the door, David. Fans are going to be up his ass with this contract; he’d better learn to hit the HRs at Citi Field or it’s not going to be pleasant.
AGREED!!!!
There are some people in the media that are going to paint Wright in a bad light because they have nothing better to do. I think they get more clicks so that’s probably why. Wright has as much reason to be a captain as John Franco did, maybe even more. But you know how it is, haters gonna hate.
Smh…The media loves David Wright because he always gives them interviews and quotes after games none of them hate David Wright….
If you want to point to a player that is hated here look cross town at there 3B A-ROD he is hated
You are right, the media does love that guy that stays in the clubhouse to answer the tough questions and is polite to them. Fair or not that has always been the case.
I dont necessarily see any of the questions as tough just that most people dont like to talk after something bad happens or they are upset.
Especially when you are being asked the same questions over and over again. Its kinda like poking the bears at the zoo with a stick waiting for them to get agitated and go nuts all so they can right about it the next day.
And to Wrights credit he has mastered talking to the media.
I guess we differ on what tough is. It seems that todays media always wants to bait or trap the players into a lead story. Kinda like what they did with that coach from Colorado football.
I agree they constantly try to bait and trap but i dont necessarily see it as being tough questions. Since Wright just gives them generic answers he plays the middle, I dont think he ever states his true opinion when asked any of these questions by the media.
I think at times he does but not often and picks his spots.
Jeter and Wright have learned very well how to handle the media. They know how to say things that keep everything safe. AROD is just a dink.
I agree both Wright and Jeter always play it safe…but so does A-Rod. I think A-rod is hated by so many due to the fact that he doesnt have a core fanbase in any city.
And he did what Lebron James did 1st…..He was the best player in the sport and joined the most successful team the Big bad Championship Yankees to play 2nd fiddle to Jeter(Dwayne Wade in a sense)instead of going to a team to be the leader, the guy. Essentially viewed as taking the easy way to a chip.
Not to mention more importantly people view him as a phony because he acts humble in baseball circles but his private life is sprawled everywhere. But that phone number madness during the game was idiotic. I also think if Wright or Jeter did that they’d get a pass from the media. Although those 2 would neer do that…A-Rod draws attention to himself
Yea I think AROD tries so hard to be liked that it just comes across fake. I don’t think he understands how he can be so could, he also does a decent amount of charity work, and he is just scorned. That Texas contract did him no favors. Not all people are meant to be liked.
Leroy,
You are right. It is not something many players handle well at all. I remember Hamptons face in in the 2000 WS when reporters kept asking him about the clemens/piazza incident. I remember him saying ….Mike was right to hold back, for the umpteenth time with a look of disgust on his face. He couldnt wait to leave the New York media circus. Props to David for taking the heat in some very difficult times for his team while veterans were ducking the press.
Too bad fans don’t view it the same way.. His ego and phonyness will cost very dearly to this guy…
which fans?
Calcaterra hates all things Mets. He’s a Braves fan.
Lol…Interesting us Mets fans hate almost all things Mets as well recently
Yes I agree, Wright put more pressure on himself for the perception of : being “non-clutch”: However did Joh Franco learn not to blow saves and to add insult to injury smirk when he walked off the mound. Yes the money is a little (sarcasm) more than Franco’s. A captain in a slump will find it difficult to lead. Wright you better hustle to 1B and run out those ground balls. However DW “oh captain” “my captain” please succeed and then you will appease the fans.
So because some reporter, who wasn’t involved in negotiations, puts out there that David wanted to make more than Johan? Really!
What is the source for this inflammatory remark Craig C. at CBSsports, just adding to those that don’t like David and will chomp at any “egotistic remark” put out there to satisfy their dislike for a player that has played hurt, tried to carry a team of Bad News Bears, but couldn’t?
Get over it, David is here to stay focus on SA and Wilpons who can’t cry poor now. Just saying!
So if my math is correct, Wright’s contract is just $500 more than Johan’s?
srt,
“So if my math is correct, Wright’s contract is just $500 more than Johan’s?”
LMAO….No the your math isnt correct….try Half-A-Million more than Johan’s lol….$500,000 clams
Shoot, y’all know I meant $500K. Sorry, just left off the K above.
Al right SRT back to the kitchen with you. We just did women’s suffrage in hope we would get a bigger, tastier ham sandwich. God forbid you actually have an opinion.
That’s the problem, she never does… is all THIS and/or WILPONS HAVE NO MONEY.. She adds nothing to a baseball conversation.
She does, she just doesn’t add what you want to see. It’s fine that you don’t agree, it’s fine that you don’t like her. Just keep the dimple BS out of it. She sticks with baseball and doesn’t attempt to belittle your argument by inserting male related jargon. Be a man and keep the women bashing out of it.
Seriously, what do you EVER add to a BASEBALL conversation Alex? When was the last time you typed something based on baseball instead of emotion?
what do you add here, alex besides negativity?
hahahaha
I’ve become the ‘poster boy’ to rail against for some here. Just makes me chuckle.
I think it’s because no matter how asinine or belittling their comments are you seem to always take the high road that that is confusing to them.
Poster Woman.
Hi Ms. srt,
Actually, when counting for inflation, that contract probably costs no more in actual buying power than Johann’s did five years ago.
Did a quick search and found that Babe Ruth’s $80K contract back in the late twenties would be the equivalent of $1,082,184.80 today. A paltry sum compared to today but considering that was during the depression and the days of the reserve clause, the figure is quite remarkable.
Not comparing David to the Big Bambino at all, just feeling sorry that the Babe was born a century too soon!
we all know about srt’s math ability. First it was months of “The Wilpons Have No Money”
now “this”
she knows NOTHING. All she does is read an article than give her views on it at face value. She possesses NO insight about anything as evidenced by her “wilpons have no money” posts here for the last few months while everybody else was talking baseball, devising trades/plans. And I’m not even getting into the game itself and in-game strategies.
She’s a waste of space here
Hey look it’s Bay doing what he calls me out for doing. LOL.
Morning Bay, or should we say Mourning Bay?
Seriously, with Joe under the weather again can’t we all take Joey’s advice and scale back on each other a little?
No respect for the owner of this site whatsoever. Really sad.
oh shut up! Nobody is cursing or anything. You’re just a whining bore who was FLAT OUT WRONG.
FLAT OUT WRONG with your stupid, brainless, no insight daily posts of Wilpons have no money. But it’s okay to waste it all on this guy.
Now that this Wilpons Have No Money garbage is over try learning about baseball for once in your life so you can add some insight to this site for once instead of piggy backing everything with face value comments that amount to NOTHING original.
And right on que.
well why the hell don’t you respond then? Because you can’t and whenever you can’t respond you post with these short, ignorant retorts. Why? Because you can’t put into words any responses.
Actually you need to learn the difference between have assets and cash flow. There is a term called liquidity which would be helpful to you.
Learn before you post.
Also if you are on the “Wilpon’s are broke” mindset this contract doesn’t do anything to change this mindset. David pays for him self. His on/off field contributions will pay for it along with merch. This does not add to payroll in anyway. Now if they don’t add anyone else around him you still can say they are broke.
Right, they can re-sign Wright and still have less than a 100M payroll and the fact that they are asking him to defer money? Why do that unless you do have financial issues?
Hi Taskmaster,
For those who need a bit of background, attached is a little primer on the subject
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http://www.ehow.com/info_10005389_difference-between-cash-flow-liquidity.html
I guess the problem is that the Wilpons cannot sell certain assets because that would literally mean liquidating the business for them. Who really knows.
Bayonne, i too notice that as well.. I was shocked to not find one single “THE WILPONS HAVE NO MONEY” when negotiations were for her boy toy idol. then it dawn on me how it didn’t fit her agenda to criticize the golden boy. She has no idea of the game of baseball, i don’t care how nice she is, save that for the desert, in here all she does is THIS and when it’s convinient for her she uses her little rant about the wilpons with the BLAME THE WILPON OR THEY HAVE NO MONEY bullcrap
Wrong again.
Great put the C on him and add more pressure.
I think that C was automatically added when he signed that big contract. All Terry is doing is putting the letter on the Jersey
Oh I agree but save the letters for hockey, I am all set with this marketing crap.
Yeah, I’m not sure I see the need for the ‘C’.
There’s never a need for a C on the jersey. Besides it just cost more money… oh wait. I got it now. It’s part of the Wilpons marketing program. They can now sell tons of new Wright jerseys with a C on it. I know I got it on my Christmas list to send to some of my best friends here at MMO.
hahahaha.
Hi Tr,
That was the first thing that came into my mind too – now every David fan (including Mrs. Joey D.) will have to replace their old David Wright jersey with a new one sporting the letter C. And that doesn’t stop with apparal – how many more want to update their bobblehead collections as well?
Guess they realized the merchandise value to their organization when nobody purchased Torres shits to replace that of Pagan and Tejada shirts for those of Jose. And with Beltran, they just lost a good product altogether. And I wonder how many Bobbleheads of Torres and Rameriz they are stuck with as well.
Well keep in mind that it was already mentioned that some of the money for Wright might come from their marketing budget so anything they can do to promote Wright now I am sure they will be doing so. Including a damn C.
That ‘C’ stands for choker because that is EXACTLY what he did from 06-08. And if the Mets happened to surround him with players again, and with this contract, he’s suddenly going to become a big spot hitter? A clutch hitter who delivers when you need it the most? Or he’ll simply just leave a ton of runners on when you need them the most….again.
Most likely the latter. Oh and he’ll be jogging to 1B on that groundout in an important spot too.
Yeah he choked in 2007 and 2008 that’s why the Baseball Writers of America voted him 4th in the MVP and 7th in the MVP in those years.
Which coincidentally was higher than any other Met on the team in both years.
Next highest in 07 was Reyes 16th (hit .205 in September you never once called a choker, strange.)
Next highest in 08 was Delgado 9th (hit .248 in August you never once called a choker, strange.)
So weird that Wright performed very well in the final two months of each Mets collapse and was voted the MVP of both teams – yet he’s the choker… but the other guys? No sir.
Don’t give you facts, you know what you see. Ignore the fact that in August 07, Sept 07, Aug 08, Sept 08 the facts say David Wright was a .347 hitter who hit 25HR and drove in a total of 82 runs.
Tell me right now if I told you that you could add a .347 hitter 25HR 82RBI in a full season you wouldn’t gladly take it?
You know he didn’t choke, you’re blaming him at age 24 and 25 for other people’s failures. He did his job in 07 and 08 down the stretch when the pressure was on.
Because CONSISTENTLY failing in CLUTCH SITUATIONS never leads to being called a choker.
Carlos Beltran has been an ABSOLUTE BEAST in clutch situations…and he STILL wears the choker label for one AB…
Why on earth would we call DW a choker
after all…..a .195 batting average with the bases loaded and 2 outs
it got to the point where folks were walking Lucas Duda to load the bases and get to David Wright
I mean if u get a basehit in the 1st inning with 2 outs and no one on base…a basehit with a runner on 1B in the 4th inning with 0 outs…but then in the 7th inning ground out with the bases loaded and 1 out to squeeze in a run….and strike out with a runner on 3B to end the game…
the stat sheet says you hit .500 that day with 1 RBI
Have that type of day…2 days a week over the course of a month…and you too can hit .350 and choke in big spots
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYN/NYN200809240.shtml
The Box score here says David went 1 for 4 with 1 RBI, it never mentions that he left the go-ahead run on base with 0 outs in the 9th inning
it doesnt explain how Bob Howry…a scrub reliever with a 5.19 ERA that year was able to strike out Mr. Clutch
Bob Howry had a 4.54 K/BB ratio that year…
Not exactly Adam Wainwright…
Remember when Johan put that sign up on the clubhouse door on the 2nd to last day of 2008…
Damn near the whole year…Dude was getting NO offense when he pitched…
He challenged the entire team and wrote:
It’s time for MEN to act like MEN
on 3 days rest, he goes out and pitches a complete game 2 hit shutout…wins 1-0
Thats performing under pressure…in a pressure situation…and being a leader
For the love of God, I know you Wright fans have David next to Jesus on your pedestals…
But please never ever ever ever ever compare David Wright to Johan Santana…
No doubt Johan is a leader. It’s just hard for a pitcher to be THE only leader in a clubhouse.
Are we talking about the same Wright who put off having an MRI the team doctor suggested for his back b/c he knew in the back of his mind they might find something that would take him off the field? Turns out he played for how long with a broken back?
The same Wright that sat out a couple of days with a broken finger, refused to go on the DL, and hit a HR in his first at bat back after those couple of days?
The same Wright who was pissed off when TC took him out of the lineup b/c he was afraid the Brewers would retaliate and throw at him?
No one’s comparing him to Johan. But let’s not put him in the category of soft either. There’s just too much evidence to the contrary.
Yeah now how about turning the convo back to baseball and WINNING. All that other stuff doesn’t mean a THING.
Yes, we are talking about the same Wright that held out for more money than Johan Santana even though back in 2008 when the Mets had their last chance to get into the World Series it was JOHAN who threw that gem of a game next to last day of season that saved the Mets season for one more day. Yep, that same 2008 that David Wright choked during September leaving many runners on in scoring position.
Johan bailed Wright out but Wright holds out for more money because of numbers he accumulated post 08 when the games meant less.
What stuff doesn’t mean a thing?
Johan’s competitive nature that allowed him to go out there and pitch that game end of ’08 – with a torn meniscus no less – that gave them post season life for another day?
Are you saying he’s the only Met with a competitive nature that wants to win?
Forget about Wright for a minute, since you’re so angry they extended him.
What about Dickey? He just pitched the last 2 seasons with a multitude of injuries, never missing a start – and some of those injuries would have landed a lesser man on the DL
It’s all about winning. Don’t think I’m discussing anything but.
add double talk to ignorance, no insight, and flat out being WRONG about Wilpons Have No Money. Don’t even know what the hell you’re saying here cuz you’re definitely not answering my post
So says you….
Wilpons have plenty of money. Mets, not so much….
No…he’s the only met that has a competitive nature…wants to win…and actually backs up his performance in the clutch…
David Wright ….not so much…
Wait…
David was hitting .129 when he supposedly injured his back…
then in the 10 games after…he hits .305 with 3 HR and 7 RBI’s…
Why on god’s green earth would you take yourself out During a hitting streak?
The next 15 games after that, David hit under .200 again…
this is when the team proactively had him take the MRI…found a hairline fracture…which did not require surgery…but some anti-inflammatory meds and rest…he came back…healed up…and STILL SUCKED the rest of the year….
his back had as much to do with his 2011 as Hurricane Irene
And when Ruben Tejada got suplexed by Chase Utley….Mr. Captain had the chance to take him out when he got on 1B….
did he try to steal? nope…
did he try to retaliate in any way? nope !
In 2011, in Spring Training….
Angel Pagan…Tejada…Turner…Ike…Murphy…all rave about Beltran and Reyes leadership…
as a matter of fact…guess who took LESS money upfront so the Marlins can sign other players?
No one other than Mr. Greedy himself Jose Reyes
Reyes took a 6 million dollar paycut in 2012, so the Marlins can try to sign Albert Pujols
O and guess who is training the NY Mets SS this off-season…
Jose Reyes !!!!
Mr Greedy himself will be taking time out of his busy schedule to have Ruben Tejada live with him for 6 weeks and work out in his home.
Thank God the Mets still have leaders in Toronto !
Johan is a leader. Absolutely. But he’s a leader of pitchers. Mariano Rivera isn’t the leader for the offense – he leads the pitching staff.
Johan to me is the best leader the Mets have but that doesn’t mean it translates to the hitters.
Wow, Bayonne Mets Fan, you’re kinda harsh. I do think Wright will never hit the homeruns at Citi Field that he did in Shea. We have no “tablesetters” with speed that will take advantage of the non-HR hits that Wright does make. We need speed and power and with half of the games at home, I really don’t see Wright’s numbers increasing significantly as he gets older and deeper into an exorbitant contract unless he gets a lot of help (and that will cost MORE money down the road). Captain or not, I really hope we don’t regret this; eight years is a LOT of time at a LOT of money. I sincerely hope the third baseman joke-of-a-contract in NYC continues to be A-Rod for many years to come.
Yes he is as harsh as shining your Waterford crystal with Brillo pads.
SMH….Its funny how some people only comment on other posters but never on the Mets or baseball…
Gotta admit it was a creative post though.
No wonder I cant ever get my crystal to shine!
Unfortunately in sports you get paid for what you did in the past and not what you will do. And Wright is getting paid for leading the franchise in almost every offensive category. Is the contract a little expensive? Yes, but the top player on every team is paid more than they probably should. I cannot believe you malcontents slamming this deal, because if they didn’t sign Wright all you same psychos would be right back here slamming the Mets saying “jeez, franchise leader and you won’t even open up the checkbook?!” Thanks for being the reasons the comments are just painful to read and stay miserable.
You Met fans are never happy. Wright said that he wanted to see a plan from ownership and wouldnt have signed without ownership committing to winning. Did they sell him some BS? They have lied before but maybe they have shed enough bad contracts,built some of the farm system and ready to spend money and compete. In a month they dropped Bays 20M and signed Wright to a 140M deal, this doesnt look like Mets. I am looking at this optimistically and it actually might be a sign that the Mets have turned a corner…
Also Tex makes 23M, Upton 15M, Kuroda 15M….17M for the face of our franchise is fair…Be Happy Mets fan, its a step in the right direction..
Sounds like a whole lotta hype to me.
“Wright said that he wanted to see a plan from ownership and wouldnt have signed without ownership committing to winning. Did they sell him some BS? ”
Well then he lied because he signed without them committing to anything but his big contract. If he stated he wanted to “SEE” a plan then any sales pitch by the Mets would mean NIL….SEEING & HEARING are 2 different things
Youre Wife/husband can treat you like crap everyday then when you say youre leaving/ divorce they tell you….Im gonna change and make things better just watch…you stay then she continues the action then what??? leave??? Guess what Wright cant because he signed a deal that is more binding than marriage nowadays
Jim Duquette “DWright deferred payments are not anywhere near the Santana deferments. Santana’s was 30 mil over 6 years. DW – are closer to half that”
That’s actually a good thing if it’s true. I was thinking there would be epic backloading and deferrals. Cant wait to see the real details come out.
Apparantley Ed Coleman stated earlier this morning that the contract gets Heavy in the middle years of the deal….Because Wright didnt want to be paid $20MM and be the one blamed for the mets struggles and not being able to add due to his contract restricting them.
I think it’s smart for any player that if backloaded it’s in the middle. Nothing worse than the 38 year old making 22M. That’s why I am not a big fan at all of the Reyes deal. Same average annual value, slightly higher, as Wright but 22M in 2017 and being on the hook for 4M more in a buyout of 2018 is a lot of money.
Well youre not a fan of any long term big contract because almost all are heavily backloaded….
I am not so sure that almost all are heavily backloaded. I would have to research that. However, don’t you agree it would be better for both parties for it to be middle loaded?
Fun fact.
Excluding players under “team control” through arb, and the minors…
Wright and Niese are the only two players who have a contract past the 2013 year. Of course, guys like Murphy/Ike/Duda are under team control but…that just struck me as interesting.
Russell Martin said the Yankees told him they didn’t have the money available to match Pittsburgh’s two-year/$17MM offer, reports David Waldstein of the New York Times.
Read more at http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/#LxkQofS06iCTi12l.99
Yankees cutting payroll too lmao….Mets fans are pissed about this but the Stankees fans are gonna go nuts if the Yanks cant or wont sign every free agent available.
And so will Scott Boras who called for New Owners for the Mets after calling them a thrift shop for signing only cheap washed up players lol
Seriously BBLB, aren’t the Yankees too far gone to attempt this? You can’t have a 200M payroll and then say 12M over 2 years is too much. LOL. I wouldn’t be surprised to see the Yankees take a page out of the Mets book and try to do their own version of stripping cash and rebuilding.
Because of the new CBA the Yanks have to get their payroll down to 189 for the start of the 2014 season or else they get slaughtered with a steep luxury tax bill and possibly forfeiting draftpicks. They still have work to do to get down to that number by next offseason.
Srt, you’re so right. David isn’t soft. He’d probably kick every guy on this sites butt AND these guys would probably crap their pants if a 90 mph fastball came there way.
he would kick everyone butt…
so long as they were not named…
Chase Utley…
Right now he wouldn’t have to kick Utley’s butt, he could just run around him. Poor Utley’s knees are about shot.
Ha! Even Philly fans joke about Utley and his lawn chair now out there on second.
LOL
Utley with bad knees sure isnt afraid of Wright though
Most MLB players aren’t “afraid” of each other. Seriously what can they really do to each other? It’s not MMA.
Tell that to Roger Clemens !
Alex: “She adds nothing to a baseball conversation.”
Bayonne: “She’s a waste of space here…oh shut up!”
Two utter losers who could not add to a baseball conversation if their collective baseball IQ of 50 depended on it AGAIN attempting to (and failing of course) mock and criticize a person who not only adds to every conversation simply by being present, but has more intelligence, reason, humor, sanity, and general goodness in one of her toenails than Alex and Bayonne EVER could.
Really, those of you who engage the Core of Idiocy here really should look deeply into why you can find nothing better to do.
Alex and Bayonne, you and your handful of cohorts here are the biggest jokes in the entire Met blogosphere.
Hey you, take your butt back to Metsblog or go write your diatribe on how this Wright deal is pure lunacy.
LOL!!
I don’t want to spoil the good feelings today! Plus I have been kind of busy.
Hey, I am on the team now; it’s done and I hope he wins the Triple Crown!
But PLEASE, we must re-sign Dickey.
We can trade Wheeler and Harvey for Trumbo.
NO Dickey, NO Dicketttty.
well…one thing is for sure…
Jose Reyes and his disaster of a contract will probably be more tradeable than this one !
bwahahahahahah
Well most likely because Jose’s didn’t include a NTC… LOL. Keep in mind this is basically the same deal as Reyes, just an extra year. Reyes AAV is higher than Wright’s.
David will have 10-5 rights pretty soon…the NTC is pretty much a non-issue…
David Wright = Allen Houston in a baseball uniform
I think you just made my point instead of yours. Of course Reyes was more likely to get traded as there was not a NTC and he didn’t have 10-5….
but who would want Jose Reyes and his albatross of a contract????
….Miami…Toronto….Boston….
looks like it wasnt so bad after all…
Exactly…Met Fans were the only ones who thought Reyes wasn’t worth that contract….
Before Miami upped thier bid teams still had interest in signing him which means they were prepared to consider coming close to what the Marlins eventualy upped thier take it or leave it bid to.
The Marlins scared the hell out of Reyes about losing a deal to play in a city he liked and took it without checking what anyone else was going to offer.
The funny thing about Reyes is he’s even worse in big spots that Wright is. If they could move him then Wright will be moveable as well. Plus he speaks better English and washes his hair more than once a month.
Oh my god the end of the world IS this year!!!!
jessup is ready to give up on Sandy…
Argues a WIN NOW strategy
and Fonzie is agreeing with me that Wright could be traded despite his new contract!
The Damn Mayan were right all along….
And they don’t even speak English either!
Watching you two go back and forth makes me wanna vomit… I heard DW is having a party to celebrate him making more than johan santana, maybe you two can take gina and SRT as dates to kiss the golden boy’s check before it bounce..
Alex, I still don’t get it. Why do you feel the need to insult the 2 known females on the site just because they disagree with you and are females? I don’t really pay attention to Gina’s comments all the time but I have never once seen SRT post anything about a players looks or having a crush on them. I can’t help but thinking Alex with post like this you are sealing your own fate. I hope not but…
Also, just as a side note. From reading Chester’s post he was very anti re-signing Wright.
Maybe he thinks all women are shallow like his wife? Could that be a possibility?
I don’t know. I just think it’s ironic that he preaches a double standard but then behaves this way towards the women here. That’s all.
Seriously Alex, you need to channel your anger on this signing into a more adult fashion.
You hate the guy, you don’t think he’s worth it – yeah….we all get it. But none of the posters you’re belittling had anything to do with his signing or the contract he got. So take your anger out on those responsible.
Joe D asked a favor of all posters here to play nice while he was out, so why can’t you respect that? Can you just not help yourself?
You know TRS, this is why you’re pathetic.. Your lame attent at making me look as the bad guy is getting old quickly, this is the same sh** you did when kingman came in here and blasted the site and joe D, you were all giggles and LOL, then when joe got serious then you realize you could be next in the line of people getting banned from here…
that loser came in here blasting me and bayonne and you like a little cheerleader when into all giggles and jump in and it was all good and dandy, but as soon as i attack back then your reply was me being some sort of feminist or something to the point that some other guy came in talking sh** about my wife in here, one thing i never do is disrespect anyone’s personal life or anything because they’re not here right? i am sure you wouldn’t want me to talk about your kids or wife right? yet you encourage the guy basically by continuing to talk sh** without knowing one’s life, yet you demand respect from us, specially towards them? When have i insult SRT? saying she knows nothing about baseball is an insult? it’s the truth, me or even bayonne not once called her a name or anything that’s not truth, she loves wright and sandy alderson, it’s all good, nothing wrong with that, but my problem is how she uses her female gender to try to make us being abusive or insulting, you and her are cut by the same tree (TRSRT) and i don’t care what neither of you think or say.. You both pathetic and as i have said many times and i can scream it from the top of a mountain FU*K THE DESERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“lame attent at making me look as the bad guy”
No-one needs to attempt anything. You are doing a great job on your own.
Wright’s contract is 138 for 8 and Johan’s is 137.5 for 6. Who makes more per year? Doh!
I’m waiting… This is what I now call the Carmelo Effect. Ok,David, you want to be The Man, put the ‘C’ on and pray it’s bulletproof. Your team has been soft a tissue(1 ply) in the second half of the season… 6 years in a row. I’m not gonna spend my Met fan life angry and hurt, but I am not stupid. Show me, just show me.
Love him or hate him there is one thing no one can deny here….
Wright is the best player on our team and even if you believe thats not saying much it will be the first year since Sandy took over that we can say we kept our best player.
On a litlle side note I think it is a bit dishonest to say he’s getting paid as much as Johan since Johan actually got more per year and the only reason why the “DEAL” is bigger is due to the length of it.
To those who think this will hurt our ability to spend in the future all I can say is if we have problems spending money during the course of this deal it won’t be because of what we are paying Wright but what we paid other players around him that kills us.
In the end Wright will only add 3 maybe 4 mil at the most to the current yearly payroll number… Which is about what we would have spent on Ramirez or Rauch. Not being able to sign guys like that is not going to break this franchise and only a deep decline in Wright would make the money spent on him a waste.
The spending that WILL kill us is what we do with the Santana and Bay money and whatever money we can add to that via increased revenues from attendance.
Wasted spending with THAT money is the thing to worry about not what Wright might make 7 years from now.
You can always find a taker to trade for Wright to use as a DH or 3B for a team that needs a little extra pop.
So now that this signing is done and in the books we should start worrying about who is going tobe around him because there is one thing EVERYONE agrees on, That Wright on his own is not enough and he needs help in the lineup otherwise the money spent even if he does NOT decline WILL then be wasted.
Time to focus on who to replace from the list of guys that are the WORST players on our team and stop debating about if the BEST guy on our team is good enough to keep.
Yup, it’s no where near the Johan level contract. In fact it’s the Reyes deal with one more year, actually slightly less.
And that just about right for both of them….
I always considered both of them about equal in importance to us only in different aspects of what they bring.
Wright actually extended for a mIl less than what I thought he would (18M)
hilariously…
wrights salary wont break the wilpons budget…however…their insistence on putting public relations over winning in a RESULTS ORIENTED TOWN is catching up to them.
The Madoff money ran out right when their 05-08 run did…
so rather than change how they do business…
its more of the same…
Met fans are not going to rush and see a 75 win team….
and unless u surround Wright with a Pujols, Hamilton and Cano…its David Wright and the 5 Heartbeats…
except now u dont have Beltran. Reyes and Delgado…the 2nd best position player on this team is Ike Davis
aka the guy they threw under the bus a few months ago for staying out too late…
this sounds like we are primed to sign “somebody” to surround David with VERY QUICK.
and if that “somebody” happens to be over 30…looking for a big contract…well…we are going to have to roll the dice…
Jason Bay II all over again
“and unless u surround Wright with a Pujols, Hamilton and Cano”
Did SF or Detroit have all those guys?
I know you guys hate Wright I just have to wonder how much of it is just revenge hate due to letting Reyes go….
Is Wright the best player on our team yes or no?
Is keeping the best player on your team a good or bad thing?
LMAO
Umm…The Tigers traded FOR Cabrera….
then they traded AWAY Granderson…for a CHEAPER version of him in Austin Jackson…
then they signed Victor Martinez ….
then they signed Prince Fielder
and o yeah…traded FOR Omar Infante
Cabrera is surrounded by Fielder, Martinez, Infante, along with a great CF in Austin Jackson
and o yeah…Cabrera was banging HR no matter who was in the lineup…but being surrounded by top talent sure helps you on a quest for a triple crown !!!
And who won the World Series in the end?
The team that surrounded their star position player Buster Posey with Pablo Sandoval, Hunter Pence….Angel Pagan…their top position prospect Brandon Belt.
Not to mention the best pitching staff in baseball…
Ironically, the mets look just as 24 + 1 with David Wright as Steve Phillips thought they would be with A-Rod
Which name from Sandoval, Pence, Pagan and Posey is equivilent to Pujols, Hamilton and Cano?
I mean if pagan should be in that same list then why haven’t you complained more about him that Reyes which EVERYONE agrees is not even mentionable in the same breath as Pujols Hamilton and Cano.
Not even CLOSE!
And he is better than Pagan!
Metsie something is terrible wrong. I’m actually agreeing with you for like the 3rd time today. lol
Read my very last post before this one! LOL
I’m telling you we all have until the 21st and it’s over!
Dead on Metsie.
LMAOOOOOOOOO
Wright doesn’t want to be a burden
November 30th, 2012 12:40 pm
David Wright specifically requested that he earn the bulk of his money in the middle of this new contract, so the team has more money to spend now, and so he’s not a financial burden at the end of his career, WFAN’s Ed Coleman told SNY this morning.
Matthew Cerrone, MetsBlog.com
Thats awesome! Seriously. Wright idolizes Cal Ripken, not just for how he played the game, but because he played his whole career with one team. This was one of Wright’s goals from the start of these negotiations, and he actually helps that happen by limiting the chance of being way overpaid in years when he’ll probably be less productive.
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OMG I have completely witnessed a grown ass man make himself look like a total STAN in full public
Cerrone had an orgasm while riding shotgun with jonathan niese..
How did this fugazzi become the lead blogger of all other Mets blogs?
He can’t write, he can’t spell, he can’t speak, he can’t even form his own opinions. He’s terrible and every time they call him the official blog for all Met fans on SNY it drives me crazy.
Who made this Matt Cerrone guy an authority on the Mets?
Who made this Matt Cerrone guy an authority on the Mets?
Good question.. This site is the best site there is.. This site is sooooo good that you got an owner of another mets blog spend more time in here than his own and he brings his 7 commenters with him
David Wright’s walkup music for 2013?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU6syQbAvmg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll3uipTO-4A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZYV1IJab-s
Now we need to get Bourn fpor center and a leadoff hitter. If Wright can be surrounded with solid RBI guys like Davis and get on base guys like Murphy, with Bourn leading off we could have a very good batting order.
I think it is fair game for one to dispute the validity of the contract in terms of money or if it was too much to spend on David – or even if the Mets would have been better off trading him instead – but that criticizing him for having his agent negotiate as lucrative a deal he could get to finish his career wearing the orange and blue is going across the line.
David hasn’t done anything the rest of us wouldn’t do in his position. How many remained loyal to their company that was paying them a respectable wage when they had the opportunity to make more for somebody else?
Baring injury, David knows there exists maverick owners who by competing against each other for his services would be raising the ante and so he could have easily put talks on hold and told Sandy that at the end of next season he was going to do exactly what the general manager advised Jose to do – test the waters first and then get back to him. After all, we know of other players teams wanted to re-sign prior to their free agent eligibility and though they might have negotiated, no deal was going to be signed before the player tested free agency anyway.
Not a fan of big contracts, and I do question DW’s clutch abilities, but man, I cannot believe how much negativity surrounds much of the Mets’ fan base.
Overall I appreciate Metsmerized, but I’ve distanced myself from the site once baseball ended as there’s too many trolls creeping around looking for something to club.
Hold up guys, based on his past behavior…do you really think that David Wright explicitly said that ” I want to make more money then Johann Santana?
Could it be that what he actually said is that I want to be the highest paid player for the Mets and that these “Quotes” were delivered to us OUT OF CONTEXT?
After all, which quote makes better headlines and more fodder for the savage media and fans looking to bludgeon someone?
Get real guys!