Mets Not Interested In Bonds

add Marcus Thames to that list.

Sign Bonds on the condition he becomes mute.

Bonds is clearly a victim of collusion, there's a good dozen or so teams that could play him at DH or LF.

He OPS'd 1045 last year, and additionally he has had 3 months off with no injuries, so anyone saying "he's old", he would only be playing for 3 months, Im sure his durability would be better than it has been in years.

As of now, Bonds would add about 2-3 wins to ANY team, ones in pennant races would be absolutely idiotic not to sign him.....unless Selig has told all the owners not to.

Giles is interesting. Only because he is realistic and he is somewhat valuable. That high OBP would be nice in the 2 hole. And while Endy has been filling in extremely well, he is not a starter and eventually will get exposed if he keeps getting run out there everyday. His defense is just ridiculous though. I might even go as far as too say he is the best defensive outfielder in baseball right now. He would win a gold glove at any outfield position if he played everyday. I like him better as a 4th OF getting a start or two a week, pinch running, and subbing on defense in the late innings.

I assume Holliday would need Martinez in a deal, which is a bad idea. I have also heard they(the Rox) would be interested in swapping Beltran for Holliday, though I would be about as interested in that trade as I am in acquiring genital herpes.

Jason Bay and the X-Man are also interesting because they are a team far off from winning and might not mind taking some low level young prospects. I heard something very interesting yesterday from Omar Minaya. Talking about CC Sabathia, he said he had spoken to Mark Shapiro, who told him that the Mets had players that Mark would have traded CC for. If you take this at face value, maybe the Met system isn't quite as awful as we thought. There are guys like Kunz, Niese, Parnell, Carp, Evans, Murphy closer to the top, but also have guys like Rustich, Moviel, Gee, Owen, and some other interesting guys a little bit lower. One extremely intriguing name to me is Wilmer Flores, a 6'3, 175 lb 16 year old Venezuelan shortstop signed last year. He is very young, but has just mashed to a tune of .354/.388/.646 for the Kingsport Mets, albeit in a small 80 AB sample size. Francisco Pena is another interesting guy only because he was hyped up and he is still so young, despite not really putting it together behind the plate.

Ibanez of course is interesting, as is Murton, they should both come cheap and while they dont stand out, they could both help out in LF for a team that is looking for a number 6 type of hitter. This Church situation is killing them. If they could ever get Alou back healthy and Church back healthy they could win the division going away.

A player who has been mentioned as available but not connected (that I know of) with the Mets is Casey Blake of Cleveland.
He could platoon with Delgado and/or cover either OF corner while Alou and Church try to regain health.
I don't know what the Tribe would want that the Mets could afford but I think Blake should be considered as someone who would fit for the Amazins.

A.D. I think Fender was being sarcastic, and is for a Bonds signing for the Mets. And rightfully so.

nrmax88, yes I was actually going along with his sarcasm, hence my "illogical" line.

Its extremely troubling to think about teams who are trying to trade actual prospects away and hurt their franchises in doing so for LF/DH-types when the best one ever is available, for free (He said he'd donate the prorated min salary he'd get to charity).

Seriously this is such crazy talk. Media circus? This isnt 1998, EgoBarry is done. Barry said he just wants to play the game and not talk about anything. I say every team should want that.

Gentlemen, don't forget that we're talking about the same team that blew a 7 game lead over the Phillies by losing 11 of their final 16 games last year. That's not a distraction? I haven't seen a bigger choke job since Linda Lovelace. The Mets need the boost from Bonds.