I hope he does go to free agency, continues to ask for ridiculous money, draws other teams like LA into a bidding war, and makes the Yankees severely overpay. It’s good for baseball when the Yankees are saddled with albatross contracts and so have less to spend on other free agents.

And no, that’s not the argument you and Maniac and Bayonne made. As usual, you took this as a chance to bash the player on the team you claim to root for.

Your argument is that since we made 1 dumb move, we should make a second one.

Perfect sense.

I think that we are in a great position right now, and the addition of a huge long-term contract for millions, on a position we dont need, would just hamper our progress.

I think that if Wheeler and D’arnoud pan out the way many predict, we can be a postseason team by only adding a quality outfielder, or two, next year.
We don’t NEED a second baseman, if we were to find a top tier center fielder that was also a great leadoff hitter for the same type of contract we are talking about for Cano, I would say, YES, because that’s a position that we need. But we are fine with what ever second baseman we throw out there.
It’s the equivalent of saying, ” Hey, the Angels are willing to give up Pujols for whoever will pick up his contract and pay him the $20,000,000 a year that he makes.”
That doesn’t make any sense because we don’t need a first baseman, we’re fine with what we have.
We’re fine at second base with Murphy or Flores, or Havens or Spin.

Bring on the type “A” centerfielder/leadoff hitter for $15 – $18M a year !
And dont say we missed out on Bourn, cause hes not it.

Any suggestions?

To pay 150 – 200M for a player from age 31 to 38 is the stupidest decision a team could make.

AND thats relying on the fact that he will be 31 next year, hes probably really turning 35.

31, the Dominican 35.

2010 – .914 OPS, 3rd MVP, GG, SS, AS

2011 – .897 OPS, 6th MVP, GG, SS, AS

2012 – .929 OPS, 4th MVP, GG, SS, AS

WOW, Just F**king WOW!

Got it.

One day you’ll understand there only one thing that matters. Winning and what’s the best thing to do to win ballgames. Okay so it’s 2 things.

Cano will never be the face of a franchise irregardless of how many home run derby home runs his corked bat can hit.

what’s a few 10s of million among millionaires…..and however the divvy it up or spread it out…and especially when none of it is our money..
Eh on second thought let’s just rationalize anything towards whatever our prejudices are, what the heck.

What fun. Now the flavor of the day is “how can we rationalize Cano’s contract as potentially bad while at the same time make Wright’s signing look GOOD!.

Let’s do that kids!

case closed

That being said, no Mets fan should be looking down on Robinson Cano, complain about a potential expensive and disastrous contract when you have the exact same situation at 3B. And that contract could prove to be a disaster this year let alone 4 years from now.

EXACTLY.

If you look at Cano’s situational and “clutch” stats during his career, it appears he is also one of the most unclutch hitters in baseball. Anyone complaining about Wright and clutch hitting should have a big problem if the Mets ever pursued Cano.

At any rate, since it appears the Yankees this season will have a weaker lineup than in recent years — especially now that Granderson is out for a few months — then I predict Cano will have a falloff in production this year due to the increased pressure. It won’t be huge, but it will impact his value in the market slightly.

I think the Yankees and Dodgers are going to be bidding over his services, and whichever one wins is going to overpay a lot and be pretty sorry within 4 years when Cano’s production nosedives even more due to age.