According to Mike Puma, part of the hold up with the Wright negotiations deals with deferred money: Talks on Wright-Mets megadeal hit snag over deferred dollars “According to an industry source with knowledge of the negotiations, deferred money is an issue. So the $119 million-129 million the Mets are willing to pay Wright for seven years (making …
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Nov 27
What in the Sam Hill? Reports Now Suggest 7 Year Deal Worth Well Over 100M.
Now according to Andy Martino the Mets offer is indeed 7 years and well north of 100M. Seriously can we get some type of rhythm at all to the reporting? Is this the original deal or was the original deal as I expected lower and they met in the middle? I can’t get Twitter to work from …
Nov 27
Mets Make An Official Offer To Wright
This from the fingers of Adam Rubin: Report: Mets finally make Wright offer According to the report the deal is 6 years 100M, the same as Zimmerman and Longoria. The deal would begin following the 2013 season, which is already locked in at 16M. Thus the overall deal could be said as 7/116. Obviously this would …
Nov 15
What if the Mets Pulled A Marlins Type Fire Sale?
After the dust has settled a little from the Marlins dismantling their team, the guys on MLBN radio this morning were discussing whether other teams could pull off this type of deal without the general venom all over baseball that resulted from this trade. Example: how the Red Sox were able to cast off about …
Nov 13
Two New Names The Mets Should Consider
Browsing through this mornings headlines I came across two not so sexy names that would be in my opinion perfect additions to the 2013 Mets while albeit possibly not in starter roles. The first one is Jason Bourgeois Elects Free Agency Bourgeois is a 30 year old career AAAA player with tons of speed who …
Nov 07
Could the Angels and Mets Look To Exchange Salary Dumps?
This one is for you TX. In a post in the NYP from Mike Puma today way down at the bottom there was this little tidbit. Something Puma obviously stole from our readers here. More subtly, Alderson also might see if there’s any outside interest in disappointing Jason Bay, who is still owed $19 million. …
Nov 01
Wright Discussion Intensifies?
NY Mets, David Wright plan to talk contract negotiations as early as this week I hesitated to even post this story because 99% of us have already voiced our opinion on this matter over and over again. However, due to the fact that this decision dictates the entire off-season plans I suppose there is no …
Oct 12
If the Mets Keep Wright, Are The Dbacks Still A Trading Partner?
OK so forget my earlier trade of Wright for Justin Upton, we all know that was just throwing ideas out. However, after a report from MLBTR today: Diamondbacks Considering Trading Kubel Or Parra It appears the Mets and Dbacks could and should be a fit for each other. According to the article the Dbacks are …





