Arbitration Offers

[Frayed Knot]

Mets offer arbitration to relievers Roberto Hernandez & Guillermo Mota,
chose NOT to offer to Cliff Floyd & Chris Woodward.

Robo (type A) has been linked to signing w/Cleveland so this sounds like a way to steal draft picks
Mota (type is an interesting choice. He was making some $3mil last season so any NYM offer would have to be within 80% of that. Seems to me that if they do want him back they'd be better off negotiating a new settlement that would take his mixed (at best) results over the last 2 years into consideration as well as the fact that he's going to miss some 30% of the upcoming season.

No surpirse on Cliff since they'd risk the possibility of locking themselves into a semi-expensive one-year deal for a player they've already replaced. No surprise either on Woodward.

None of the lists I saw mentioned Bradford - although it seems like they were dealing with [u:920fe18641]remaining[/u:920fe18641] FAs only. As a Type-A FA I assume they did the seemingly automatic thing and took the free draft picks just as I assume the Giants did the same thing with Alou.

[smg58]

I take it Hernandez is a class B free agent? If yes, then sure you offer him arbitration.

Two-thirds of year of Mota at $2.4M (assuming he'd get 80% of $3M)? I'm really not sure I trust him, but even set-up guys are starting to get expensive.

[DocTee]

Robo gone to Cleveland

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Mmmm... sandwich.