LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Let's just accept the Mets-leaked cover story, and say that he has an adductor/hip issue that could be problematic down the road. They would have been taking on his below-market contract for a season and, like, a third... not signing him to a five-year, market-value deal. You think he's got a potentially-creaky hip? Ride out his contract, then QO the guy at year's end. if he breaks a hip he's going on DL for like, all the season, and accepting any QO. But you don't give up Wheeler for that.