Holy @#%$!

[metsmarathon]

yeah, i mean, i'm just waiting for it to be done so that i can stop wondering how it's gonna get done. but i'm hardly worried that it gets done.



and if it doesn't get done? well, shit, it's not like we were a bad team before the signing.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Exactly. If they go with Escobar and/or Baty and/or Vientos at third base, they're still a likely playoff team.

[metsmarathon]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Exactly. If they go with Escobar and/or Baty and/or Vientos at third base, they're still a likely playoff team.

without correa, we were an even bet to take the NL east. damn right we're a likely playoff team even without him!

[A Boy Named Seo]

what, me worry?


https://twitter.com/martinonyc/status/1611400838919950336

[metsmarathon]

looks like boras isn't the only one who can play this game.

[MFS62]

=metsmarathon post_id=116242 time=1673025765 user_id=83]
looks like boras isn't the only one who can play this game.

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

=MFS62 post_id=116243 time=1673026972 user_id=60]
=metsmarathon post_id=116242 time=1673025765 user_id=83]
looks like boras isn't the only one who can play this game.

[Lefty Specialist]

You kind of get the feeling that if the Mets balk, Boras will sign a shorter-term deal with the Twins, who always seem to be in the background. They've seen the medicals and were OK with offering him the 3-year deal for over $100 million that he opted out of. They also made a long-term offer that the Giants blew out of the water. So they'd be a pretty reasonable fallback.

[Centerfield]

The Hot Corner wrote: That is a pretty messed up pretzel. Needs beer cheese and a beer.

It kinda looks like a pretzel that had too many beers.

[MFS62]

=Marshmallowmilkshake post_id=116245 time=1673027591 user_id=119]
Meanwhile Boras is an agent with a client who needs a contract.

[metsmarathon]

Lefty Specialist wrote: You kind of get the feeling that if the Mets balk, Boras will sign a shorter-term deal with the Twins, who always seem to be in the background. They've seen the medicals and were OK with offering him the 3-year deal for over $100 million that he opted out of. They also made a long-term offer that the Giants blew out of the water. So they'd be a pretty reasonable fallback.

but did they give him a new-hire-type physical after the ankle incident late last year?



They saw the prior medicals, but if there's something new with that old injury, maybe they wouldn't be quite so fast to pull a trigger.

[Edgy MD]

I think it's fairly clear that an agent can't "make" a client sit out a year.

[MFS62]

Edgy MD wrote: I think it's fairly clear that an agent can't "make" a client sit out a year.

I struggled mightily over that word when I typed that.

I thought of using "had" or I could have said "Convinced his client that it would be better for him to...".

Maybe just urged? Suggested?



Whatever



Later

[ashie62]

No, an agent cannot make someone sit out against their will.



Correa to the Twins on a short game deal



The Bret Baty era begins



That's my guess

[nymr83]

Stephen Drew I think took a 1 year deal not until the season started after Boras overplayed his hand trying to get him the big contract. and he never got paid big after that.



there may have been others.

[vtmet7]

=nymr83 post_id=116263 time=1673039694 user_id=54]
Stephen Drew I think took a 1 year deal not until the season started after Boras overplayed his hand trying to get him the big contract. and he never got paid big after that.



there may have been others.

[metirish]

Make of this what you will #LGM

[nymr83]

At this point I'll believe it when there is a press conference

[Lefty Specialist]

Yeah, there have been so many 'sources close to....' stories that I'm just gonna wait this thing out.

[metirish]

Nothing much new but talks with Twins accelerating according to Athletic report overnight

Edited January 10, 2023 by Guest

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Have any of the beaters speculated as to what the Mets will do with Escobar when this is over one way or another?

[Benjamin Grimm]

A lot of talk about trading Escobar, but I'd keep him as a reserve infielder, right-handed DH. It would be silly to ditch Escobar and keep Ruf.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

I think Escobar is a good spare part to have but you gotta wonder where he stands on first being replaced, and next, considered still be to be replaced by an injured guy, one year into his contact. Perhaps we trade him (and Ruf) to San Francisco, and then sign Andrew McCutheon as RH DH

[Edgy MD]

It's also being replaced like this — leaving the sword of Damocles dangling there for a month.

[MFS62]

They're now checking out his ankle injury with CARFAX.



Later

[TransMonk]

My gut says they wrap this up today. Take it to the bank.

[Lefty Specialist]

=metirish post_id=116415 time=1673349821 user_id=72]
Nothing much new but talks with Twins accelerating according to Athletic report overnight

[roger_that]

Never let us down before:

[metirish]

Coobie's fave player can't be wrong

[metirish]