Links for Monday, before Josh Beckett makes his 2011 debut. Will he live up to his extension?
- Rival executives don’t expect Mariners ace Felix Hernandez to be available this summer, but they’re eyeing Wandy Rodriguez and Mike Pelfrey as potential trade targets, according to ESPN.com’s Jayson Stark.
- If you want to look a little further ahead, check out Tim Dierkes' preview of which starters will be available next offseason.
- ESPN.com's Keith Law suggests the Orioles will regret leaving Pedro Beato off of their 40-man roster last fall. The Mets nabbed the reliever in the Rule 5 draft and he's now on the team's active roster.
- Former Braves reliever Jeff Bennett is trying to revive his career after seeing it hit rock-bottom, as Greg Sullivan of the Tennessean writes.
i hope felix is available this summer so we can work out a deal for him with pelfrey in it…imagine a rotation of
hernandez
santana
dickey
niese
young
it would suddenly look amazing
Yeah the mets don’t have the prospects or the cash for him they will be doing a fire sale to unload cash and stock up on prospects. It’s not a bad thing at all or a burn on the mets it’s what they have to do because their owner was working with one of the worst people in American history.
I originally was going to say a smart and ignorant remark but reconsidered and I’ll just say that there is no way the Mets trade for Felix.
“i hope felix is available this summer so we can work out a deal for him with pelfrey in it..”
The Mets need a RF too so why not throw in Ichiro!
why the hell would the mets trade pelfrey? Stark wasn’t referring to trading him in a felix trade, he mentioned it as just a player they may deal at the deadline. Hmm… A 27yr old cheap 15 game winner. Yup, why wouldn’t a financially strapped team ship him out of town. As a met fan, it bothers me when national writers pretend to know anything about the mets. Because when they do, their overreaching insults hurled towards the mets fall short of the reality test and end up making no sense. See– Buster Olney’s analysis of Jason Isringhausen in extended spring train/ this idiocy.
Well you better also hope for a 2B, Beltran not to blow either leg out, a closer to become available, the organization not to be in debt, Pujols suddenly wanting to become a Met, Santana to become 25 again, Reyes wanting to stay and a top 10 farm system.
I’m sure you can add more too. Now THAT, would suddenly look amazing.
What exactly do the Mets have that would entice Seattle to trade away their franchise player? Pelfrey is a decent start, but that’s not even close to a realistic trade chip.
Seriously. Seeing that in the news blurb made me nervous someone had made a trade proposal involving King Felix. Oh well.
I like Wandy, but he’s no spring chicken. I wonder what kind of return we could conceivably get on a 33-year-old southpaw.
60 Million coming off the books after this season, where you get the idea we have no money next year?
The 1+ billion the owner is going to owe to maddoffs victims.
That lawsuit isn’t going anywhere.
You know that how?
Tim have some respect and please stop allowing any and all of your people on this site from posting about potential Felix Trades. He is signed to a very very very team friendly contract given his abilities, only what 25 years old, signed through at least 2014 and the M;s have money coming off the books and decent prospects coming up. HE isnt going anywhere till at the very earliest the summer of his last year of his contract.
Regret losing Beato? He’s been languishing against younger competition in the lower minors for YEARS. Beato has a good fastball, but he’s not been able to command anything, and his secondary pitches haven’t advanced as much as everyone had hoped. He’s had plenty of chances.
The Mets have to keep him in the majors all year long. The Mets might be one of the few teams that have room for such an arm. Also, the only reason they picked him is because he’s the one that got away for them, but in all honesty, the Mets were probably better off picking another Rule V guy.
That may have been true and all, but it’s also pretty obvious that things began to click for him the second he was moved to the bullpen. 2.11 ERA in AA last year, an impressive spring for the Mets, and now has made the club. I dunno about you, but a team in the Orioles position shouldn’t be giving away potentially decent relievers. The Orioles are one of the few teams that “should have room for such an arm” as well.
Supposedly the Mets have had an eye on Beato ever since they failed to sign him back in 05. They finally got their man and for a much cheaper price with more experience.
Felix isn’t available!!!! NO WAY!! 😉