OMG what a hack!!!! So D’Arnoud is now Gary Carter????

And Alderson is Cashen??

Unbelievable!!!!.

“If we got this for Dickey, a similar return could be expected with Wright with his track record, the dearth that is 3B at the MLB level, and the fact that teams reward players based on what they have done.”

You’ve completely left out of this equation the difference in contractual obligations regarding the two players. Dickey, $5mil next year, and at 38 y/o being amicable to only a 2 year extension.

Wright on the other hand being owed $16mil next year and looking for a 6 – 8 year extension. Huge difference there in what a team will be willing to commit to both in years and salary. Dickey was the more attractive and was able to yield a bigger return.

Cashen had a horrible team when he took over. Sandy had a flawed but far more competitive team when he took over.

Cashen’s edict was to make the team better and he had more resources – i.e. money to put the team together on top of good trades and incredible draft picks.

Sandy’s edict was always to make the team cheaper, not to make the team better and he has done a wonderful job of that. He doesn’t resign a home grown player who just happened to be the batting champion over money – which would have been a lot less if he had signed him up prior to Reyes last season. He trades Cy Young Dickey because of money – in return he gets two potential players who won’t cost the team anything for five years. He trades Beltran because of money. He gutted the team because of money.

Some believe that Sandy is doing this for the good of the team. I don’t buy that.

I read today that the Mets are raising their single game ticket price. The ridiculous reason the Mets executives gave is to encourage fans to buy season-ticket packages. Now if you buy into that mentality then I guess you can buy into the Mets claiming they are trying to make a better team for the future by making them uncompetitive now.

Hell, dump Beltran, a batting champ and a Cy Young award winner, save millions of dollars and point to the future.

But…with the dearth that is 3B in the MLB and baseball’s love for rewarding guys with what they have done, the Mets could’ve targeted a package built around Myers, Sano, Middlebrooks, or even Castellanos. Anyone of these young players, plus the Dickey haul, plus actually using money off the books (expiring contracts, Bay’s deferred money, and the $20MM that had been owed to Wright and Dickey), the Mets could’ve conceivably signed two starting caliber MLB OFers and be set for the future with more talent on the farm and more financial flexibility going forward.

“TDA was ranked 17th on Baseball America’s 2012 prospects list. From 2000-2010, only 6 Cs have been ranked 17th or better. Here is the list:

Joe Mauer
Victor Martinez
Matt Wieters
Buster Posey
Jesus Montero
Carlos Santana”

No, but Cocaine isn’t as popular as it used to be.

they already have a core in place to build around, and obviously wanted (for many reasons) to have the veteran presence to go along with it.

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And 18-year-old OF Wuilmer Becerra as other prospect coming to Mets.

plus, with the draft picks, it helps to suck royally and draft real early on (which is how the Nats ended up with harper and strasburg, drafting #1 the years there was a generational type prospect sitting there waiting).

Strawberry was #1. Gooden was way down there at #5 2 years later.

Of course, proving that it is not an exact science, even for Frank and his guys, they actually picked 4th the year before and after the Gooden pick, and took the imortal duo of Terry Blocker and Eddie Williams.