Dec 17
According to MIKE PUMA: Mets armed for trade Alderson is believed to have inquired about the Cubs’ Tom Gorzelanny, who made $800,000 last season and wouldn’t break the Mets’ shoestring budget even if he were to double that number in arbitration. According to reports, the Cubs have been aggressively shopping the lefty, who went 7-9 …
Nov 05
Multiple media outlets, including ESPNNY, report that with the midnight deadline for exclusive negotiations with pitcher Hisanori Takahashi approaching the pitcher is seeking a 3 year contract with a $4-5 million annual value. Mets fans I ask you: if you were the Mets GM would you offer Takahashi a 3 year, $12-15 million contract? (editor’s …
Oct 06
Prompted by a discussion about the Mets potentially rehiring Bobby Valentine as their manager I decided to take a look back at baseball history to see if it could tell us anything about the merit (or lack thereof) of an organization rehiring a former manager. Hat tip to fellow author Prismo whose comment spurred me …
Sep 21
I have no explanation as to why I chose that feature image only that for some reason I thought it was hilarious and wanted to see it over and over. NOW on with the show. It’s been a long time since TRDM polled it’s readers. What a better topic than this one? OK, I am …
Sep 13
You thought I was referring to the Mets with that title didn’t you? Well normally you’d be right but today you’re wrong. I’m referring to questionably useful starting pitchers currently employed by other teams. Ben Nicholson-Smith of MLBTR has a post up this morning entitled Teams With Potential Interest In Upside Starters that I encourage …
Sep 04
Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports has some interesting tidbits for Mets fans. Hat tip to MLBTR for reminding us that Rosenthal does this stuff: Full Count: Skipper search
Jul 30
A tip of the TRDMB cap (sans a wag of the TRDMB finger) to MLBTR for pointing out that Scott Miller of CBS Sports has reported the Mets are one of multiple teams interested in acquiring Pittsburgh Pirates starting pitcher Paul Maholm. Miller notes that Maholm is under contract through 2011 at the reasonable salary …
Jul 20
Fans hoping for the New York Mets to acquire Cleveland Indians hurler Jake Westbrook (both of you) have been dealt a savage blow by FOX Sports reporter Ken Rosenthal who notes that Westbrook has a stipulation in his contract that requires he receive a $2,000,000 bonus if traded. His uniform # 37 is a not …
Jul 16
In a Tweet yesterday Buster Olney had the following to say: “An interesting possibility among the starting pitchers that the Mets are considering: Brett Myers, who is having a good season for HOU.” Myers is indeed having a very good season for the Astros. His contract is very reasonable: 10:$3.1M, :$8M mutual option ($2M buyout) …
Jun 07
As my fellow TRDMB Fantasy League players surely know, yahoo sports provides daily “notes” about happenings related to players on our fantasy teams. Well I was checking my player notes this morning and found a rather long note attached to Arizona Diamondbacks starting pitcher Dan Haren. It began: “RHP Dan Haren, CF Chris Young, both …
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