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Stay, Go, or Call it Quits: 2007-2008 Offseason

Valadius

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Keeping that whiff record out of Met hands for a little while longer.


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The Daily News reports that Posada is at the top of Omar's wish list.

]Jorge Posada: Mets Reportedly Interested
RotoWire.com Staff - RotoWire.com
Thursday, November 1, 2007

Update: The Mets have Posada at the top of their free-agent wish list, the New York Daily News reports.

Recommendation: Mets GM Omar Minaya will have to wait until November 12 before making any sort of offer to Posada, but clearly the Yankees are in jeopardy of losing their star catcher if they don't make a strong offer to retain his services in the next couple of weeks.


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That article in the News suggested the Mets might be willing to go five years for Posada.

He'll be 37 next year. A five year contract would take him past his 41st birthday.

If they do that, they're nuts.

I'd be willing to give him two. Maybe I'd even cross my fingers and offer three. But anything beyond that is way too risky, especially for a catcher.


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There's a whole lot of speculation in that article. Which, among other things, means we've already reached the point where commenting on every rumor would take hours out of the day.


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="metirish"]Some of this stuff is unbelievable .

Mets signing Posada is a no-brainer

Sticking it to the yankees is not a reason to sign Posada or anyone for that matter.


Ugh.

Didn't we just have an aging catcher on a long term deal? One that we had to wait out when the guy hit 38, 39 years old and wasn't hitting his worth anymore?

How about, I don't know, a guy who won't be making 13 mil at age 39?


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My one hang-up with Schilling is that he would be the third pitcher in the rotation who is likely to miss several starts during the season. .


True but...he's also the only starting pitcher that has 3 World Series Ring this Millenium ('01 D'Bags; '04 Sox; '07 Sox)...when he's been paired with another big game pitcher, his team has done pretty well (the Big Eunich in '01; Pedro in '04; Beckett in '07)...I'm gonna sound a little Yankee-like on this one but Curt/Pedro/El'Duque have combined for 8 World Series Rings...I'd kinda like to go with a Pedro/Perez/Schilling/Maine/Pelfrey rotation with El'Duque being in the pen as the long man & fillin starter when either Pedro/Schilling need some rest (basically, I don't anticipate more than about 25 starts from Pedro, Schilling or El'Duque so to maximize their effeciency setup the pitching staff so that none of them are overburdened)...


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I'm going to sound a little asshole-like, but Bob Gibson, Tommy John, and Jack Morris have a lot of rings too.

I respect that factor, but I'm leery of it. Tim Leery.


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](basically, I don't anticipate more than about 25 starts from Pedro, Schilling or El'Duque so to maximize their effeciency setup the pitching staff so that none of them are overburdened)...


vtmet, Saying you only expect 25 starts from all three of them would suggest that maybe it's not such a hot idea to bring Schilling in, especially when you don't know when they'll miss those starts. I've had two years of El Duque not pitching when we needed him most. I don't want to have to worry about three of those guys this year.


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Well, being less of an asshole here. Part of the fun of old guys who will inevitably break down is it means repeated tryouts of three or four starts for young starters. If a Schilling misses a few weeks and a Humber steps in and doesn't perform, they welcome back Schilling and keep working on Humber. If Humber does perform, they marginalize Schilling (or somebody else) and let Humber keep going.

It's a compromise position. An old guy (or two or three) who is effective but injury vulnerable allows you not to riskily commit whole hog to a young starter who hasn't figured it out yet, but guarantees that young starter will get his chances to figure it out.


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Would you rather have 25 Schilling starts and 11 Chan Ho Park starts, or 36 starts from a guy who's somewhere in the middle? That's the gamble. I'm tempted to take Schilling, actually.


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I'd probably rather have 25 Schilling starts and 11 Humber or Mulvey starts.

Chan Ho seemed like a worthwhile gamble at the time because it was for one start, it was early enough in the season that the younger starters hadn't had time to come along, and he was coming off a good spring.

Of course we lost the division by one game, so that "worthwhile gamble at the time" blew up in our faces, as did any decision that cost us a game.

My point being that I'd expect the extra 11 to go to comers, not goners.


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Edgy DC wrote:
I'd probably rather have 25 Schilling starts and 11 Humber or Mulvey starts.

Chan Ho seemed like a worthwhile gamble at the time because it was for one start, it was early enough in the season that the younger starters hadn't had time to come along, and he was coming off a good spring.

Of course we lost the division by one game, so that "worthwhile gamble at the time" blew up in our faces, as did any decision that cost us a game.

My point being that I'd expect the extra 11 to go to comers, not goners.


Mulva? Gipple?


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I'm fine with that as long as the conditions are reasonable. The Mets appear to be rebuilding (retaining) a pretty good bench.

The real work will be in filling the void that exists at catcher and second base while rebuilding (and strengthening) the bullpen and rotation.


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Curt Schilling and the Boston Red Sox have reached an agreement on a one-year deal worth about $8 million in base salary and another $2 million in potential incentives, ESPN The Magazine's Buster Olney reports.


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HAIL SEAVER!


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Yancy - "I was hoping it would slip by unnoticed this time."

It's been hailing all over the forum.


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Rockin' Doc wrote:
Yancy - "I was hoping it would slip by unnoticed this time."

It's been hailing all over the forum.


So much so that I've been reluctant to make post #42. The dream must end, eventually, though.


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Former and recently-discussed-in-this-thread Met Chan Ho Park returns to the Dodgers, site of his greatest successes and where he gave up two grand slams in one inning.


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