The Yankees and Mets play in baseball’s biggest market, but both are in the midst of quiet offseasons, as our Free Agent Tracker shows. The Bronx Bombers re-signed Freddy Garcia and extended C.C. Sabathia after exercising options on Nick Swisher and Robinson Cano. The Mets lost Jose Reyes to the Marlins, traded for Andres Torres and Ramon Ramirez and signed Jon Rauch and Frank Francisco. Here are the latest rumors from New York:
- The Mets continue to explore possibilities behind the plate and they had interest in Luis Martinez before the Padres sent him to the Rangers yesterday, according to Mike Puma of the New York Post. Josh Thole, the Mets’ projected starter, will head to Dallas to work on his receiving with catching coordinator Bob Natal in the coming weeks, Puma writes. Mike Nickeas projects as the Mets' backup now that they non-tendered Ronny Paulino.
- Troy Renck of the Denver Post expects the Mets to hold onto David Wright until the July trade deadline (Twitter link).
- The Mets and Yankees are two of the teams that continue to seek a utility infielder, Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com tweets. The Braves, Cubs and Giants are also interested in utility infielders and Jack Wilson, Ronny Cedeno, Craig Counsell and Aaron Miles are among the available free agents.
Hopefully Josh won’t be a thole in the lineup given an increased workload.
Pun brought to you by the letters r, o, f, and l.
I’m more worried about the thole in his tglove.
Sorry, his pun was better.
I wonder if the Mets have talked to the Cubs about Soto yet? If the Cubs are “blowing it all up” then I would think that Soto would be available for prospects.
Cubs would only deal Soto if they felt Castillo was ready. Not sure what mets have that cubs would want – murphy and parnell are interesting but not prospects. I like Soto but totally understand if hes dealt for pcs we can send to padres to get Rizzo
If you check the Cub’s depth chart, Clevenger is listed but Castillo is not. If you deal Soto then you probably bring in a cheap veteran to compete with Castillo and Clevenger in spring training and keep the veteran to at least be the back up.
where is castillo not listed? Yahoo has castillo not clevenger and cubs site lists both on 40 man roster. Not ahuge deal just curious as I was under the impression that castillo was going into the spring as Sotos backup ( I could be wrong)
The Mets better not screw up the Wright situation like they screwed up the Reyes situation… If David is not going to be here (which given his age and our rebuilding timeframe, he probably won’t be) then we need to get maximum return for him.
PR be damned – no one is excited about this team as it is – keeping Reyes didn’t keep people in the stands last year either… I would argue Mets fans, in general, will be more excited to see the kids play than some sub-.500 team-laden made up of a bunch of players who won’t be here in a few years.
yankees and mets should look into resigning xavier nady again low risk medium reward