Dickey for D´Arnaud & Gose would be a great trade, though I can´t imagine that happens unless the Mets include something else that´s significant.

I also wouldn´t be surprised to see Thole included in this as Dickey´s personal C, especially if D´Arnaud is involved. In that case, maybe Buck heads to the Mets, also to keep D´Arnaud at AAA to open 2013, possibly. All sorts of options here. Wouldn´t be surprised at all if this ends up being a major trade with 7 or 8 players involved and going back & forth.
LHP Brett Cecil is also someone who could also be a nice fit here as a lefty for the bullpen or back-end SP btw.

In any case, while I´ll keep rooting for Dickey and adopt the Blue Jays as my favorite AL team for 2013, this has the potential to be a very helpful trade for the Mets longterm.

Much like these RAD rumors we’re following tonight, so much of the earlier reported facts the news was putting out on this tragedy was incorrect. So many news outlets are just too eager to be the first reporting on this that they just start spitting out any and all rumors that are coming in. Qualifying it with ‘this is unconfirmed’ is ridiculous.

The PCL can make hitters seem better than what they really are. That is a fact. And all I’m saying is to keep that fact in mind.

No offense taken by us older guys. Am sure he had a man-child like Jeff help him out.

But what I’m really expecting is an email going out to us on the Mets mailing list immediately after any trade telling us how we’re going to surprise a lot of people in 2013.

Fail to see an issue here.

And you know the gun lobbyists will blame the parents for not sending their children to school carrying firearms to protect themselves. I’m sure you know I’m saying that not to be funny but because I’m so disgusted that the U.S. has to be one of the few countries in the western world in which having firearms (not hunting rifles, etc) is illegal. Even with Connecticut’s strict gun laws, those guns were registered not to the killer but his mother and thus were legally owned. So it wasn’t a failure with any law, it’s again a failure of the way we live.

Twenty children between the ages of five and ten lost their lives and for all those other kids, they’ve lost their innocence at too young an age and will no doubt this is going to haunt both them and their parents, as it would most anyone outside that gun lobby.

PCL average: .278/.345/.430

IL average: .257/ .328/.389

Las Vegas is a notorious hitters park, and so are other stadiums in that league. Some of the other stadiums in that league are just as much as a hitter’s paradise as Las Vegas, so his away numbers could possibly be inflated as well.

Just a joke people. No need for the old folks to get their depends in a bunch.

That was also a joke. Please appreciate it regardless of your age.

Amen to that.
Mental illness is becoming an epidemic in this country.

Now, if they were 25 with 3,000 MiL ABs of the same output, and suddenly spiked in a hitters park, that would be a real red flag!

No need to check out MB now, so you are welcome.

My WAG, based on nothing but a gas bubble, is that a deal will go down to some completely unexpected team like Atlanta or the Yankees. Unless it doesn’t.

Gose batted .286 last season in Vegas. Before that he never batted higher than .262 in his five years in minors. His OPS was 50 points higher than his career mark.

d’Arnaud’s slugging of .595 was over 120 points than his career mark. His OPS was 160 points higher in Vegas!

RED FLAGS for sure.