Mets Close On Erik Bedard?

If Reyes is dealt, I think I'll be sick.

Man I hope the third wheel isn't the Twins getting Tejada...

Yeah this is al talk right now. It makes sense for the Mets to invlove themselves in some contract eating. There are a lot of ways you could work this three way deal. The los Angeles could work such that they don't have to give up as much, so they could still persue Miguel Cabrera.

I almost lost it when I saw the headline on Mets blog. Then learned it was a rumor. This thing gave me wicked blue balls.

Lets' make a new rule not to talk about your own balls.

fair enough basemonkey. I hope I did not evoke any mental images.

another point is that Orioles COO Andy MacPhail of all baseball men won't jump the gun. He's more a patient type of baseball man...it is absurd to think that he will make a move before Johan gets dealt, esp. since prety much any deal that could be offered for Bedard should be passed thru the Twins first...to me this sounds like the NYC media machine picking up a random rumor and giving it a lot more life than it really deserves..

I wonder if the orioles would threw in Tejada to "spice up" the deal for maybe one more prospect, so they have someone to replace Reyes at short?

hahaha, coolpapabell...sure enuff...the only pictures I need are hanging on the wall...

..also, BTW I have personally seen Bedard pitch in person with up close seats and he is a damn damn good pitcher...a ton of great hitters lave the plate against him looking like children...ever since he developed that mid 90s cutter, he's been ungodly..the only reason we haven't heard much the hype to match that ability on him is the fact that he plays for a losing team his whole career...

...another point to be made here is that the Os aren't the As or Twins and looking to dump money or contracts...that might be nice...but, the Os just want to get good and young players period...it's for talent reasons not salary ones...so any team wanting some kind of discount in talent for salary dumps should talk to the Twins or As...

Your not getting Reyes plus three. That's just crazy. Reyes is at least somewhere near the caliber player Santana is, if not in the same discussion, and he's locked in for pennies through 2011. I don't care what the Yankees or Red Sox think, Jose Reyes has more trade value than Phil Hughes or Jacoby Ellsbury.

And I do think the O's are trying to dump salary. They're going into a rebuilding period and they had a record high salary going into 2007 by a wide margin.

One thought I had about why they might want to talk sooner than later with the Mets: Maybe they like Ramon Castro. The only way the Mets can discuss Castro is if something gets done before Dec. 12, when they have to make a decision on Estrada. Castro makes sense for the O's, he gives them a good offensive player with some risk that could be a great stopgap for Matt Wieters.

Castro can't be dealt until like June, right? He just signed a new contract a few weeks ago.

Oh is that a rule? Its possible, I just know Castro gave the Mets a pretty good deal when he could have gotten money elsewhere.

Santana > Reyes.

Again, I'll reiterate. The Os are trying to get good young players. True that usually means cheap ones as well. But I do not think the Os are willing to take on lesser players in order to save money. I guess that's just what I was getting at. So forget the "Swap out Gomez for Endy and eat a bunch of contract" sort of talk...

Minaya said "Reyes and Wright are core players" meaning that he will not be trading any of them since the team is built around them, so don't worry fellow Reyes lovers. I would imagine that any combination of Heilman, Pelfrey, Humber, Gomez,and Church will be included in the trade. If Heilman is traded, Billy Wagner will be either pissed or upset. He was quoted in the newspaper sating things like " The Mets shouldn't trade away talentlike Heilman" and "They need to focus on bringing back key players" (reffering to LoDuca) So i'm scared...he might be starting to act like he did in Philly :(

@ Krusty

I read it here: http://mlb-rumors.blogspot.com/

However, take it worth a grain of salt. He lists no sources.

first of all, Tim, Sweeny Murti is not the Mets beat writer... he's actually the YANKEE beat writer... but thats ok, he knows a lot about the orioles being they're in the yanks division...

Second of all... he's a bum, and usually is wrong about everything he says... this would be the first time he didn't have to clean up his own mouth's mess...

Sweeny Murti is the beat reporter for the Yankees...
Where is Ed Coleman when you need him...

I'm not saying Heilman is trash at all...he is a legit ML RP...and a good one at that...my point tho is that it's not as if he hit the majors at 23...he came up a little late but got good quickly to his credit...but at his age, and probable peak values, he's better suited for a near contention team or bonafide contender, not a team looking to rebuild and get younger...

...second of all, his pitch count numbers always contradicts his insistence on being a starter...HE IS NOT A STARTER...it's really funny how when he is trade bait, fans and officials talk about him as a potential starter on any other team...but when the season starts, they put him in the pen...right now, the Mets have an obvious need at SP, so why are they looking to deal him in order to get a starter...to me that adds up to the fact that if he is a starter, he is a starter like Rodrigo Lopez, Russ Ortiz, or Byun Hyun Kim are starters...that is, the type os starters who's ERAs rise due to losing gas by the 3rd time through an order or 4 th inning...that's not a starter...

Heilman is good...and he makes any team's bullpen pretty damn strong late in a game...but, that's an awful luxury to have on a young team who is getting blown out...and by the time that young team starts putting it together and gets good, guess what? Heilman is about 32-35 and near declining if not already...

RE: Sweeny Murti:

"...he's a bum, and usually is wrong about everything he says... this would be the first time he didn't have to clean up his own mouth's mess..."

HAHAHAHAHA!!!

I got a good laugh out of that one! I don't know if Murti is a bum, but he is a helluva Yankee homer, worse that "Fat Man" Francesca...he gives John "Satan" Sterling and Susan Waldmann a run for their money as biggest Yankee homers in NYC.

"Just heard of possibly another Bedard type trade to Mets. Mets give Church, Heilman, Humber, Pelfrey, and F-Mart for Bedard"

I think that'd be too much to give up. Hold on to Church and then offer up the other four guys, that should still get it done anyways, considering Fernando Martinez is still one of the best prospects in baseball and Mike Pelfrey was once considered an elite prospect and still has that kind of potential if some things go right for him

Sorry fellow fans, no ace this year! But I would love to see another "project" turn around like Maine/Perez.

Rich Harden could do wonders if healthy and should come cheap. Anyone else you'd like to take a gamble on?