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Even looking at his pictures I don't remember him, sorry Dale, the name I vaguely recall.

Giants fans now get to experience going from Beltran to Pagan.Didn't see it but Sandomir in the Times was tweeting like crazy last night about how SNY were going all out on these moves with wall to wall coverage.

The designer beard, it was a superstars beard but he still wore it.

@Jon_Heyman: Francisco got $12M for 2 yrs from mets"

@Jon_Heyman: Frank francisco gets 2 year deal w/ mets, as @KenDavidoff reported"

"@Jon_Heyman: Pagan will go to giants for andres torres and ramon ramirez, confirmed (via @Joel_Sherman and @YankeesWFAN)"

Heyman saying mets Mets are talking about the Giants about Pagan.

This is how Expos fans must have felt with this sort of wheeling and dealing in the bargain basement.

Crazy money and crazy years, just like the Arod deal is looking so smart with several years left so will this one.

Jon Heyman #mets working to acquire another reliever in addition to rauch. Also have multi-player trade in works

Up there as tallest Met ever?

Damn, looks like the Marlins are going to get Pujols.

600 to 699

What we need, backup catcher, bullpen arms/closer utility infield guys? I should add with apparently very little to spend, ten to fifteen million.

Mets have no plans to trade Wright Published: December 5, 2011 10:19 PM By DAVID LENNON david.lennon@newsday.com DALLAS -- Despite Sandy Alderson's bleak financial outlook for 2012 and a payroll that is expected to be no higher than $100 million, the Mets have no intention of following Jose Reyes' departure with a trade of their other franchise player, David Wright. Not yet, anyway. As the Mets and a stricken fan base continued to cope with the fallout from Reyes' defection to the Marlins late Sunday night, Alderson explained why he has no plans to dump two of his biggest gate attractions during the same offseason, regardless of the savings. With the Mets struggling to sell tickets, trading the popular Wright would be tough for the franchise to absorb. "Yeah, it comes into play," Alderson said Monday. "I've acknowledged that before. At the same time, as another take on it, we just reconfigured our fences. That's a longer-term proposition, but it certainly would have a short-term impact on somebody like David. "It would be a little bit inconsistent for us to make those changes and then turn around and trade one of the two or three people that might benefit the most from those changes." The decision to make Citi Field more hitter-friendly for 2012 was embraced by Wright, who admitted that the original cavernous dimensions had crept into his head. For a team that always has leaned on him heavily, pulling in the fences seems to have returned the favor. Plus, Alderson said Wright also has value outside the foul lines. "David has been not just an excellent player for the Mets but also a very loyal spokesperson for the franchise," Alderson said, "and I think all of those things are taken into account." The Mets set up a conference call Monday night for Wright to speak about Reyes' departure, but the team abruptly canceled it without explanation shortly after Wright appeared on a radio show to discuss the same topic at length. Wright, like Reyes, is a homegrown star. But he's entering the final season of his six-year, $55-million contract, and with a $16-million club option for 2013, he could be nearing the end of his run in Flushing. "The goal for me is to play out those two years and see what happens after that," Wright told 1050 ESPN. "But I don't think there's any question that you see what Jose has done and Jose leaving and there are going to be questions surrounding what my future is going to be. "I understand that we're very similar as far as age and what we've endured here in New York. I'm not sure what my future holds. But again, that's out of my control." Wright now is one of six players who account for roughly $64 million of the 2012 payroll, and Alderson said Monday he has roughly $20 million to $25 million left to improve the team for 2012. The GM also said the plan is for Angel Pagan and Mike Pelfrey to return, which subtracts another $10 million in arbitration, leaving Alderson with only $15 million -- tops -- to spend this winter. That's not much with the Mets needing a closer, additional bullpen help, a backup catcher and a fifth outfielder. The Twins reportedly took Matt Capps off the market Monday with a one-year deal for $4.75 million, so he's no longer a closer candidate. The only thing for certain is that Alderson will need to get creative in order to stretch the Mets' limited resources. "We need to get back to the point where we're closer to break-even," said Alderson, who mentioned Sunday night that the Mets lost $70 million this year. "This, by the way, would be true of any owner. This isn't about one individual. You can't sustain losses of the kind we have over the last couple of years and expect anybody to endure those."

Was Ceetar signed away with Reyes?

duan wrote: I've tried to get round to thinking about this for a couple of days. to be honest, the Mets under the Wilpons are a bit like Ireland. There's the Tsunami of Madoff (for that read the mishandled banking meltdown) which if everything else was going well you could handle but then there's also the reckless growth of spending in the payroll, the stadium and planes for the owners (for that read our current budget defecit) There's no easy place to go with this except to accept some painful medicine for a couple of years and hope that the medicine is actually correct and that the clean bill of health happens earlier rather then later. Of course there's a risk, correcting the payroll imbalance too quickly could lead to a depressionary spriral where due to the poverty of the output and the absence of confidence the income which comes with it declines at an accelerated pace. So what you try and do is get rid of the things that you simply can't afford any more, and make smaller chops everywhere else. Last year the Mets spent $41 million on players who did not play at all, they have also had one of the worst injury records in the majors for last 3/4 years. So I have no doubt that Reyes' relative inability to stay healthy over an extended period of time has been the key factor in Alderson valuing him a *that much less*. Normally the advantage of being a big market team is that you can absorb one or two bad injuries/signings, but until the mets get through this period they can't. Me, I think it won't be a great signing, but they'll get one MVP season, two MVP but hamstrung, one healthy but only ok, one injury riddled and one .320 obp 390 slg with 10 steals fiasco. Don't get me wrong, he'll be a lot better then Jason Bay, but therein lies the secret of where we are now. Ha! , but where are the Germans?

I'm confused, is that an article Davidoff wrote or some excerpts with MGIM add ons?

Benjamin Grimm wrote: All right, let me be the first to say it: R.A. Dickey is an idiot. let me share that with you and collectively we will call him an idiot.Join us brothers.

Yet so desperate were they to fill seats kids were free through September, what a fucking mess this team ownership is.

Jesus, looks like I actually got one right.

Centerfield wrote: And you know what, if they weren't even going to make an offer, why didn't they trade him at the deadline? At least we'd have something to show for it. Six years at $17.5 a year is not unreasonable. If this was so far out of their range that they couldn't even get involved in the conversation, only an idiot would hold onto him. At the time, I remember thinking that the "Don't Trade Reyes" camp should have been more specific. They should have said "Don't Trade Reyes BUT MAKE SURE YOU CAN RE-SIGN HIM". Of course, I suppose that should have been evident and only an idiot would think otherwise. Fucking idiots. good question, Wilpon's didn't want to look like they were giving up on the season?.......yet Beltran was traded.....

That seems such a long time ago, it's been some fall.

soupcan wrote: Sports is just sucking a bit fat juicy one for me right now. Fine

David Wright 3b 6 years/$55M (2007-2012), plus 2013 club option 6 years/$55M (2007-12), plus 2013 club option signed extension with Mets 8/06 $1.5M signing bonus 07:$1M, 08:$5M, 09:$7.5M, 10:$10M, 11:$14M, 12:$15M, 13:$16M club option ($1M buyout) award bonuses: $50,000 each for Gold Glove, All Star selection if traded, Wright may void 2013 club option 1 year/$0.374M (2006) renewed by Mets 3/06 1 year/$0.3225M (2005) re-signed by Mets 3/05 drafted 2001 (1s-38) $0.96M signing bonus agent: Levinson brothers, ACES ML service: 7.075 http://mlbcontracts.blogspot.com/2004/12/new-york-mets.html