After comments from New York Mets owner Fred Wilpon this week, it looks as if the mets will finally move into a different direction after the 2011 season. The Mets have been throwing money at players like the Yankees for years without the results.
The Mets owner spoke out on Jose Reyes and Carlos Beltran specifically. Both players will be free-agents after this season. Wilpon said of Reyes in free-agency "He thinks he's going to get Carl Crawford money. He's had everything wrong with him. He won't get it." He should have spoke out in the off-season before the Mets picked up his $11 Million contract.
Both players are high priced veterans. Both should be moved if the mets want to move forward. Fred wilpon may not know when to speak about his team or what to say, but the fans in New York have had enough.
Here is what he said of Beltran and David Wright-
On Carlos Beltran, who starred for Houston in the 2004 playoffs before signing a seven-year, $119 million deal with the Mets: We had some dummy in New York, Wilpon says, referring to himself, “who paid him based on that one series. He’s 65 to 70 percent of what he was.”
On David Wright, “A really good kid. A very good player. Not a superstar.”
What the Mets owner should have said and should be thinking is that they need to be better at building their franchise through the draft, not free-agency. Thats why the Marlins beat the like a drum every summer.
Here how the Mets can help themselves. Trading Reyes and Beltran isn't going to be easy. They both make a lot of money and will both be free-agents after this season.
The Mets must keep in mind they will not get All-Star players back in any deal or multi-player packages of top level minor league talent. Although both players are swith hitters.
The Detroit Tigers could be that team to deal with. The tigers have nothing to show for Magglio Ordonez coming back and have have three different starting 2nd basemen.
The Tigers have four starting left handed pitchers in Toledo who will be pitcing in Detroit before the trade deadline to showcase them. They all have one special talent that makes them viable as future starters in Detroit. If the Mets need one thing its pitching.
The Tigers have a good mix of just about everything. The Tigers have been very streaky this season and still trail the Cleveland Indians by 7 games. They do have switch hitting utility player Carlos Guillen on his way back from injury but they can't expect anything from him. He has been battling injuries more than any other player the tigers have had in recent memory.
The rumor mills have Reyes to the Tigers. However it may just be because the Tigers have been trying for three years to get him (rumored).
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