Plus, he’s going to need time to get back into rhythm.

And no, the organization doesn’t rise and fall with Nimmo. He’s important, but this isn’t a Fernando Martinez situation.

the 1 other option is bourn waiting til april, then signing with a team that wont risk losing that pick…

the system is broken and made with loop holes

does that team lose both their 1st and 2nd round pick? or just the 1st ?

In the history of baseball there has been one team able to build a consistent winner mostly though free agency, the Yankees, and their most successful period was when they were a homegrown team supplemented by free agents. Every other team has built from their farm and the draft by drafting impact players, trading away deep depth for need and supplementing the roster with smart signings. The teams who tried to go the free agency route like the Mets and Cubs in the mid to late ’00′s, the Marlins last year, end up sucking very quickly.

You should really go back and look at those ‘teams to beat’ assembled by Omar, look at who made starts and who got significant at bats. They were all deeply flawed with mediocre bullpens and no depth. The 07 and 08 teams basically had a hot streak at the beginning of 07, then over a year of .500 ball followed by another hot streak to end 08. Those glory years left the team with 130+ million dollar fourth place roster and very few players that could help on the horizon. Give me what Alderson is doing now, or what Cashen was doing in the early 80′s any day of the week.

I’m not even suggesting Bourn won’t get what he wants…there is always some dumb GM who decides what the hey….

But in the end, no matter how stubborn or convincing Boras is (and by that I mean convincing Bourn), Bourn is going to see people playing baseball in a matter of two weeks and if there is no contract signed by then Boras will either be forced to lower the price, take the best deal he has gotten thus far, or more than likely get fired (if he refuses) because as much as Bourn wants 13+Mil and 5 years, that desire PALES in comparison to his desire to play baseball for an MLB team.

He is not going to sit out the season because he can’t…
He isn’t THAT good to hold his value that long.

Look at Oswalt…He held out too and wound up being a Reliever not a starter….
One thing to be stubborn but at some point the players says this is more important than that and the price adjust accordingly no matter WHAT name appears on the Agent’s business card…

Thats all I was really getting at above.

Money isn’t LIMITED….You get enough to sign ALL of your picks and we already saved money last year by not signing half our draft and not giving our 2nd rounder a slot offer…

The money is much LESS important than the player…
So if your going to take the pick you had better get someone who will be better than Bourn when he gets here and if he isn’t then the pick is expendable…

This is the point lost on everyone who bitched about Omar giving away picks to get guys that made his team the team to beat those three years.

No draft pick given up at all

this to me is the biggest question.

we all know we have 2 other options to play 1B

we all know we have options to play 3B…and C….

we have 0 depth in the OF and SS

when Sandy inherited this club, he actually got a club that was pretty resistent to injuries, because of the depth.

3 seasons later….and we have 0 depth at SS, 0 depth at 2B, 0 depth in the OF

You’re also looking at the savings wrong, it actually is a large amount that can add up quickly. An extra 250k can turn your 12th, 16th, and 20th round picks into the equivalent of a 3rd, 5th, and 9th pick. It’s like trading down in football, it’s routine for a team to trade their first pick for another teams first and third, it’s a great way to still get the player you want plus another one for virtually free.

I also wouldn’t really worry about the amount unsigned last year, the Mets got 18 out of the first 22 picks (20 rounds), most who didn’t sign were in the 30′s. Players drafted their have a better chance of being struck by lightning than being a starter in the majors. You should feel good at how aggressive the team was with who they picked. They seemed to realize that if a signable player would have very little chance of contributing long term then draft a tougher to sign,but more talented, player. If you sign the guy great you get an extra 8th,9th, 10th rounder, if not then who cares, it’s just to fill out the Kingsport or GCL Mets roster anyway.

Give me two hail mary lottery tickets in the 30′s vs any other 8 safe signings. Go the the baseball america draft database and pick a random 30 something round in any random year, you will recognize almost no one who actually signed.

Would a deal like this be legal under MLB terms:

Bourn gets a 3-year, 36 million $ contract with a club option 4th year at 12 million $ or a 1.5 million $ buyout to make it 37.5 million $ guaranteed if the 1st rounder is gone.
If it´s only the 2nd rounder and losing the 1st can be challenged you make it a 4-year, 52.0 million $ guaranteed contract. Which is still well below what Bourn was looking for (5-years, 75 million or 6-years, 90 million) but at least in a range where Boras & Co. can save face.

The question the Mets have to ask themselves:
Who is going to be the CF for the next 3+ years ?
Is it Nieuwenhuis / Cowgill or Den Dekker / Lagares from within ? Is that solid enough ?
If not, who are the best available CF options on the free agent market beyond Bourn ?
Carlos Gomez & Jacoby Ellsbury next winter, sure. But where do you see the market for them going ? Do you believe in Ellsbury who has been labeled a very strong or rather mediocre CF by different reports ? Are you willing to hand out a major contract that may have to top 100 million $ overall to a 30+ year-old OF who has had injury problems in the past ?
Likewise, is there a realistic trade target a few months down the road or next winter ? Chris Young jr. (if his 11.5 million $ option gets picked up by OAK ) ? Dexter Fowler ? Colby Rasmus ? Cameron Maybin ? Is the 11th overall pick (and the slot money he brings with it) worth more than the prospects you´d have to give up in a trade ?

And thats assuming he doesn’t insist on OVERSLOT which happens a lot with the players we target because they all can go to college and re-enter the draft…

Doesn’t matter your really not saving a lot of money to sign picks with….

And it’s all pointless if we don’t sign half our draft again.