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He signed the contract so fuck off. Correct personnel decision too.

Id make them both fair offers, but I cant break the bank on Wheelers track record.

I like Wheeler too, but id rather get stuck paying him market rate in the fall after he proves it for another year. What kind of discount is Wheeler going to give you now versus the chances of injury or ineffectiveness?

=LWFS post_id=5025 time=1553568270 user_id=84] Of the options, Flushing. For your consideration: A Meet of Mets?

Vic Sage wrote: 89 wins second place second wild card win the play-in game, lose the divisional series. This is where I am at too.

Maybe they can put a plaque up in that sorry excuse for a 'Mets HOF'

What do they have that an online subscription to The Athletic cant give me? And the Athletic has stories that night or the next day, not in 2 weeks. The thing is, if they had any vision whatsoever they could have been ESPN Insider/The Athletic online before they even existed. But they chose to cling too long to the outdated delivery medium. Put SI out to pasteur .

Oh, was that tonight? Had plans come up after we scheduled. Oh well, time to work the waiver wire and earn it!

He'll be back in the news for new crimes soon, some people cant stop

I dont like the wording of the rule but given how it is written the ump isn't wrong, you can definitely make the argument that he turned his ass into the pitch intentionally.

=Fman99 post_id=3868 time=1551837404 user_id=86] She's hot. Good hire.

Frayed Knot wrote: The potential conflict of interest is being both an ESPN employee and a NYM employee is the odd part to me - although maybe it's justified by the fact that baseball isn't one of the two sports the "worldwide leader" covers. 1 and a half sports - all things NFL and only the basketball that involves Lebron

its Jose. the more off-field issues you have the less chances you are going to get once the talent runs out.

A Boy Named Seo wrote: She was (and will continue to be) and ESPN announcer while working for the Metropolitans. News of this hiring has unsurprisingly angered men all over the internet. https://nypost.com/2019/03/05/mets-add-espns-jessica-mendoza-in-out-of-the-box-hire/https://nypost.com/2019/03/05/mets-add-espns-jessica-mendoza-in-out-of-the-box-hire/ why and where is anyone angry? its a meaningless hire in the scheme of things - much like the Leiter hiring we herd about yesterday. I get why they'd kiss ass to a former player with a meaningless position, i dont get this one - but its still ultimately meaningless.

Frayed Knot wrote: But it's logical that one or both will spend some time in AAA and/or on the [CROSSOUT]DL[/CROSSOUT] IL so it doesn't need to be an either/or situation. In fact, I think 1B would be a great place for a platoon. IL? you mean the International League? (yeah, i know, dumb name change) if they both play well i strongly favor a platoon - the problem is going to be keeping them both on the roister with a glut of infielders and the modern 15-pitcher roster leaving 2 bench spots

and the players would do well to make service time manipulation a CBA issue. toll the clock from the day a guy is drafted OR the day he sets foot in US for international signings.

my favorite Mets pitcher ever, before Dickey came along

If Smith is looking good thats great - you could platoon then as a lefty and righty. i'm not saying you keep a talent at Alonso's level down until June to prevent a yer of arbitration, but a week or so for service time? i think you do that to pretty much anyone

Edgy MD wrote: Yup, through 19 plate appearances (Lagares leads the team with 20), DS is at .500 / .579 / .688 // 1.266. and there we have it, the "excuse" the Mets are going to use to mess with Alonso's service time.

Nimmo would get more money in your scenario, but that money would come from somewhere. Maybe Harper, maybe amateur signing bonuses - no reason to give a 16 year old in Venezuela a million dollars if you lose control of him at 19 or 21. I believe that 'somewhere' is ultimately going to be other baseball players because I believe each team/owner has a budget that they arent raising if the rules change. And none of that means I favor the current system, I just disagree over the likely effects of ending it.

If each team thought THEIR amateur talent evaluation was exactly average then it would be a wash to them. I'm guessing each team thinks they can do better over the long run.

Edgy MD wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: I find ZERO reason to grouse over the Bonilla payments its a Madoff thing. How so? The Wilpons would never have given out such a generous deferment if they didn't believe they would continue receiving an even greater return on their durty Madoff money. http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/16650867/why-mets-pay-bobby-bonilla-119-million-today-every-july-1-2035http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/16650867/why-mets-pay-bobby-bonilla-119-million-today-every-july-1-2035 The Mets have never really talked about the deal, but it is well known that their owners, the Wilpons, had many accounts with investor Bernie Madoff. Madoff was returning 12 to 15 percent a year in what we now know were fictional returns. So deferring deals wasn't a problem because the payout would occur years later and the interest rate would be lower than the money they were (fictionally) getting back from Madoff. To see the deal as the Mets would have seen it, let's say the Wilpons put $5.9 million into a Madoff account in 2000 and got a conservative (by Madoff standards) 10 percent annual return. By 2011, when they would have to pay Bonilla for the first time, they would have already grown their pot to $16.83 million. Even with paying off Bonilla every year, they would wind up with a $49 million profit on the deal. Of course, the Madoff returns weren't real, which complicates this hindsight.

Frayed Knot wrote: I find ZERO reason to grouse over the Bonilla payments its a Madoff thing.

As for a prediction, I'll say 190 innings (30 starts) of 1.00 WHIP, ERA around 2.50

I like that they are paying the Atlantic league to test this. A consistent strike zone would be excellent and hard data that it works would be nice.