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2012
Alderson Discusses Dickey Situation And Mets Strategy In Nashville
An article by Hojo's Mojo
Tonight at the Winter Meetings in Nashville, Sandy Alderson spoke with reporters and confirmed that he met with R.A. Dickey for ten minutes today, but that it was purely social.
Alderson said he will not negotiate a new deal without Dickey’s agent present.
“I don’t negotiate directly with R.A. That would not be professional under the circumstances. He’s represented.”
“On the other hand, we continue to have conversations with his agent. I would expect that we’ll see him some time during these three or four days. When, exactly, I’m not sure.”
Alderson has no intention of letting Dickey play out his option in 2013 and he expects to have trade discussions with several teams about the reigning Cy Young winner.
“We expect to talk to a lot of teams about a lot of different things. That’s why we’re here. I would suspect, yes, we will have conversations about R.A. That doesn’t mean we would prefer to go in that direction or reconcile to go in that direction.”
As far as acquiring players, he reiterated that there is not enough flexibility to add significant players via free agency, but that he intends to focus on what players are available via the trade market over the course of the next few days.
“We’ll know more in two or three days. I think there are free agents out there who can help us, who are in our price range. Whether we’re able to fill all of our needs through free agency, I think, is a separate question. I’d say probably unlikely, depending on what our standards are for the outfield, catching, relief pitching, etc., etc.”
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Sounds like no signings are coming except for the Vinny Rottino’s and Fred Lewis’s of the world.
Every time Alderson speaks my expectation of the Mets improving in 2013 decreases….
BBLB, How’s it going! Every time Alderson’s lips move he tells more lies and makes me cringe!
Maniac,
Besides the Mets? Everythings been good…yourself?
I honestly cant wait til we get a new GM here….this is just depressing…im tired of hearing how so many players dont fit the team financially…The ticket,parking,food prices to go to the see them play dont fit financially but I dont see them dropping that fast enough.
I still cant believe they took that chat room away from the page. They ruined one of the best features of the site.
Yeah, Removing the chatroom just created more traffic to the posts/columns/articles.
It will be missed so much more on game days
Maybe it will be back when people learn how to act like adults.
MANIAC…LIES? CAN U EXPLAIN? ALL I BELIEVE ALL HE’S EVER ACTUALLY SAID WAS WHAT HE ISN’T GOING TO DO ie TOP F/A SHOP WHICH HE HASN’T; HOWEVER AS FAR AS DICKEY IS CONCERNED, I BELIEVE THEY’VE ALREADY REACHED AN ACCORD REGARDING TERM & $$$ WITH “NO TRADE” AS THE ISSUE KEEPING INK FROM PAPER AS ALDERSON WOULDN’T(OLD SCHOOL) SOLICIT OFFERS WHEN HE’S OSTENSIBLY TOLD DICKEY, AS I BELIEVE, HE’D GET HIS NO TRADE AFTER HE’S USED HIM AS BAIT TO DISCOVER WHAT PIECES MAY BE AVAILABLE FROM PLACES LIKE TORONTO, CLEVELAND & KC.
ONCE HE ASCERTAINS WHAT THE POSSIBLE RETURN COULD BE HE’S LIKELY TO SWITCH THEM OFF OF DICKEY & ONTO A NIESE OR GEE AT LEAST THAT’S WHAT I’D DO & IF IT WERE ME I’D BE WILLING TO DEAL BOTH FOR THE RIGHT RETURN LIKELY FROM 2 DIFF PARTNERS FOR EXAMPLE MLB EXP TALENT FROM CLEVELAND FOR SAY NIESE & GEE FOR THE RIGHT PROSPECTS FROM KC OR TORONTO
AS A GM I’D CERTAINLY BE MORE COMFORTABLE WITH A ROTATION COMPRISED OF SANTANA, DICKEY, HARVEY, WHEELER & TBD THAN SANTANA, NIESE, HARVEY, WHEELER, GEE
SA has sad all along he will look to improve by trading. He has pitching to trade so thats what I am expecting. Dickey or Niese will be ex-mets soon IMO.
Yeah, Hopefully history doesnt repeat itself and he brings back another Andres Torres & Ramon Ramirez in a trade
I’d trade Wheeler before Niese. If we trade Niese and Wheeler keeps walking people at the same rate as Oliver Perez, this organization is screwed.
Hi Maniac,
Interesting thought about using Wheeler as trade bait. If he is as highly regarded by MLB organizations as let on, I am sure teams with ample enough hitting and in need of starting pitching would thus be willing to part with one of their own promising young hitters in exchange. Both teams would be dealing with their strengths to fill in their weakness.
If we can put out feelers for a Cy Young Award winner whose heart sincerely sides with the New York Mets, I wonder if we are actually putting out Wheeler feelers as well.
http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/mets/post/_/id/59092/aldersons-opening-statement-at-meetings
I have to admit that if RA Dickey really did go speak money with the GM than i can’t argue w/Alderson’s response, RA shouldn’t do that and it is innappropriate. I mean that’s pretty wild if RA actually wanted to talk contract on his own without his agent there.
Gotta agree with you there, Bay. What was he going to do a Jedi Mind trick on Alderson to get a deal?
Hilarious listening to SA speak after years of dealing with Omar, who couldn’t finish a sentence without starting a new one. And, frankly, I don’t know who is more difficult to decifer.
Sandy’s very difficult to read. He’s almost too methodical. Let’s hope for the best..
And Sandy whom cant complete a sentence or interviews without barrages of ……….UGH, UGH, UGH, UGH
Nothing new here with his statement. Think everyone pretty much knew the reason RA isn’t signed yet is b/c the FO wants to see what other teams will offer back in a trade.
If they don’t trade him this week, I can’t imagine why this would go into the season w/o him being extended. They can’t be that far off in money for the 2 years. Not unless the Mets really low balled the first offer and it’s less than 10 MIL a year. If that’s the case, then there’s no doubt in my mind they would prefer to trade him.