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Mets Have No Interest In Bonds
A couple New Yorker-perspectives on the Mets interest in Barry Bonds:
First, The NY Daily News reports that the Mets have "laughed off" the idea, saying,
"...a high-ranking Mets official insisted there is no interest in taking on the monumental baggage - which includes charges of perjury and obstruction of justice - stemming from the out-of-work home run king's involvement in baseball's ongoing steroids mess."
And Joel Sherman at the New York Post has joined in on the fun,
"Of course the Mets should enlist Barry Bonds. He fits their program perfectly. He is old, injury prone and very likely will not respect the manager."
This isn't new - MLBTR discussed Buster Olney's recommendation of the Mets signing Bonds here, and MLBTR readers seemed to see this as a good move, despite Omar Minaya's stated reluctance. As it stands, it doesn't seem to be in consideration.
By Nat Boyle
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Somebody whose uniforms has stripes, and the Mets fit this profile, should sign Bonds to help him transistion towards prison life.
Posted by: Doug Dacenzo | March 09, 2008 at 11:03 AM
The man didn't kill anyone. Just sign him, he'd make the lineup awesome...
Posted by: moebarguy | March 09, 2008 at 12:29 PM
The Mets aren't serious about winning. You can throw Johan Santana's name around all you want. The fact of the matter is if they were serious they would have done everything in their power to clinch their division last year. Case closed. Fine, let them pass on Bonds and the team that gives him a chance will benefit greatly.
Posted by: fenderfanatic | March 09, 2008 at 02:55 PM
Its funny that all the clubs are passing up an instant top-10 (at worst) production improvement to the lienup because he might be a distraction ~ and many of the teams could probably use such a distraction to take pressure off other guys in the lineup. Top-10 production from a guy who should make it much easier on the guys who struggle throughout the year because all the focus will be on Bonds = “nah, too much baggage” ~ just seems silly to me…
Posted by: darkstar1661 | March 09, 2008 at 04:01 PM
I don't think the attention is the "too much baggage" teams are talking about.
The man is injury prone, in his 40s, and can only field a ball hit directly to him. For the amount of money he's asking for, it's not worth the trouble.
Plus the attention is not good thing for a team like the Mets. They already have attention grabbers who will be on the team for a while and will be marketed as franchise players (Beltran, Wright, Reyes, Santana). A guy like Bonds might take some of spotlight away from these guys...and for the Mets these guys are where the attendance and merch sales are going to come from for quite a while.
Posted by: ludichrisspeed | March 10, 2008 at 03:46 PM