I said from the start extending Wright was more about business than baseball. That’s unfortunate but it’s exactly what was needed. Despite what you & I think, there are millions of people out there who love David Wright and he represents one of the only things fans can hold onto until the young kids are ready.

You need to find a package that is good enough to make those people go “okay I can move on from the last 9 years and look forward to 5 years down the road.”

The Dickey deal was different. People loved Dickey and rightfully so, but the deal was obviously a good one to make so it lessens the blow

LMAO

so i guess its Ike Davis’s turn to be the real only good hitter for the NY Mets….

Yankee package – pick 4 out of 5 players for David Wright

Mason Williams, of
Gary Sanchez -c
Manny Banuelos, lhp
Dante Bichette -3B
Dellin Betances – rhp

99.999% of met fans were not happy with the way the FO sh**ed on Dickey on the way out

Big difference

You can’t.

The truth is, to get the VALUE for Wright that you want to turn around and send to Miami for Giancarlo you’d need to go to teams like Seattle, Arizona, Pittsburgh, or Houston and frankly why would they deal for him just to watch him leave?

Also if you’re telling me the Yankees have enough prospects to get Wright and then we could use those prospects for Giancarlo – why wouldn’t they just go get Giancarlo?

In order to get a significant haul for Wright you need
A) Wright willing to sign an extension. Remember the Blue Jays KNEW Dickey’s parameters because they asked the Mets and they wouldn’t do the deal without an extension
B) A team willing to sign Wright to a 7/120+ contract
C) A team with enough prospects to make it worth it to the mets to trade wright.
D) Wright and his agent not recognizing the open market for 3B is in his favor should he leave

it’s not as easy as trading in a video game. Just assuming it would be easy to do is laughable.

And using AGone who TOLD San Diego he was leaving and TOLD them what he wanted so they could tell the Red Sox (1 of 3 major market teams who could probably afford him) is not the same.

Says the guy who needed the Rule 5 draft explained to him after bragging about how much he knows.

Why do the people who constantly declare they have so much knowledge do such a lousy job demonstrating it?

” D’Arnaud is two years older than Stanton. Are you saying D’Arnaud is the one on his way to a hall of fame career and is a franchise player?”

Who said anything like that? Do you understand that they play different positions? Do you understand that a major league baseball team consists of a 25 man roster? That if you only have 1 really good hitter, you will not succeed? Just look at the Texas Rangers of 10 years ago.

Isn’t that what you thought we just did with Dickey who is 38?
You guys need to make a checklist to make sure when you open your Sandy Mouth you don’t contradict yourselves so often….

From a Marlin perspective, unless you are overwhelmed with pieces that can contribute on the MLB level soon, trading Stanton now is retarded…

The Mets right now do not have the pieces to compete with Texas and some other clubs in the Stanton derby…

Trading Wright for even 2 top 50 prospects would’ve given us a much better chance at getting a much better hitter, younger…with the financial cushion to give him an extension, give Ike an extension, along with Duda, Tejada and Murphy…

Yes, so they are thirsty for Wright…but not thirsty enough to TRADE FOR HIM….?

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080707&content_id=3084786&vkey=trade2008&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb

http://sports.espn.go.com/boston/mlb/news/story?id=5890951

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3694100

“and few teams have the capability to shell out $130M+ after some of the spending sprees.”

according to franchise face, money was not the most important issue…winning was !!!

I would even trade a guy like gee and Duda to get it done

“But we only had Adrian for one more season; that much was made clear. And once we knew it was only one season, we thought the right move was to act somewhat preemptively to get the best package of young players back.”

So they traded a player who made it clear to them he was not interested in being on their team. You see how that’s different don’t you? It was easy for them to trade him because he made it clear they couldn’t sign him. You think it’s a coincidence they happened to get him in a major market like Boston after he told them what he wanted for a deal?

Also, I am not sure if I need to explain to you the difference between a 1B market and a 3B market. The major market teams in need of a 1B after 2011 would have been Boston, Dodgers and Tigers. Dodgers were dealing with McCourt and uncertainty which slims down your choices between Boston and Detroit.

Wright would have had Nyy, Phi, Atl, Laa, Chw, Cin making offers. The markets aren’t even close.

If the Mets traded Wright to Colorado for a bunch of prospects, would you sign with them if you’re Wright? If not – why do you trade for him if you’re Colorado?

Gregg already said it for me: Miami wants cheap players for their farm. d’Arnaud is not and will not be an option. Why would you consider that especially in the fact that catching was one of our big issues?