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cxcx
I wouldn’t call signing arguably the two best available free agents an interesting idea, I’d call it a cheap pipe dream. Particularly when you’re talking about a fairly thrifty team that already has players at those two guys’ positions that are among their best.
Ted
Sign an aging slugger, coming off a superstar season, who can only play an average glove at 1B. Why does that sound EXACTLY like something the Mets would do?
Look, I love EE, but that’s not the fit. He’s vastly better off signing with Boston or Toronto. If the Mets had money to sign EE they’d get it to Cespedes anyway.
jd396
An exorbitantly expensive pipe dream.
AvidAstrosFan
I am guessing the Astro’s push hard for Encarnacion. I think the would like to platoon him at DH with Gattis and let him play some 1st base also.
gogoblue
Astros have virtually no shot at signing Encarnacion. Red Sox will easily trump Astros’ best offer, and if all the offers are in similar range, EE will go back to the Jays. He has spoken numerous times how much he likes Toronto.
dave1775
Toronto fans and players are low lives
frankthetank1985
Wow. So a little 8 year kid is a low life? You are one classy person!
metseventually 2
I think pushing for Desmond (along with declining Bruce’s option) would be their best move. Going to have to great creative at first base….
iamhector24
Declining Bruce’s option… you want them to decline a 13 million dollar option on a 30 homer 100 RBI guy… The Mets front ownership is terrible but this is NEVER happening.
metseventually 2
Yes- I want them to decline an option on a guy who is streaky, overrated, a product of Great American and doesn’t want to play in NYC.
frankthetank1985
For 13 million it’s a bargain for that kind of streaky player. 13 mil these days doesn’t get u that much more than an average player let alone a 30 hr player
Joe Orsulak
Joel Sherman is a clown
Thronson5
I think Cespedes is a goner. Have a feeling he will go to either the Rangers, Mariners, Indians or Yankees. Unless one of this teams end up trading for. Braun or McCutchen
busmannyc
how about going after pedro alvarez. put him back at 3rd base. if he’s a failure that’s your 30hr 95rbi 1st baseman. duda is over hyped,let him walk & tailor made for an AL team. loney is a keeper as alvarez’s backup
Cam
No one is giving Alvarez a shot at 3rd. He’s strictly a DH, and a 1B in emergencies. He should never hold a glove again.
busmannyc
bring Pedro alvarez in to play 3rd base, if it doesn’t work he’s your everyday 1st baseman, 30hr 95rbi at good ol citifield. duda walks: he’s an overhyped AL slugger on an NL team. loney is a keeper.
Joe Orsulak
The fact that you’d rather have Alvarez and Loney over Duda shows that you don’t belong here. Go back to ESPN.com
frankthetank1985
Agree
woodhead1986
non tender Duda, sign EE, if that fails, get Conforto playing 1B regularly in spring and let him compete for the job if his glove isn’t awful. Re-sign Walker, re-sign Colon, re-sign Blevins, maybe even re-sign Salas depending on his price tag. Somehow acquire a solid lefty for the pen, and keep Bruce. Accept the loss of Cespedes and spread that money around more evenly. Get the injured back (hopefully) and you’re ready to rock.
stanthefan
I think you let Walker walk. The Mets will get a compensation pick for him, and they have Reyes, Flores and TJ Rivera. Rivera can play, but I think he will need to play regularly.
That to me is that added cash that the Mets could use towards resigning Cespedes. They get Reyes for the league minimum, can platoon Flores at 1st with Reyes playing 2nd if Wright can go. Rivera can play 2nd or 3rd as well and frankly the Mets problem is not power, it’s defense, getting on base, and an overtaxed pen at times.
stanthefan
Albeit, I don’t know where the right handed pop will come from in the Mets lineup which tells you the Mets should resign Cespedes. My only worry about the Mets ability to resign Cespedes is that he “loves to play in NY”, has proven he can play in NY (which is big), and there’s this other NY team that will be freeing up boat loads of cash…
Duda’s option is what the Mets have to DeAza give or take. For a guy that has hit 30/100 for the Mets, this should be a no-brainer.
Same thing as Jay Bruce. Bruce can hit, and I believe he can hit in NY because he did hit almost .500 the last week in a Mets uniform; he’s just streaky. I like a guy though that his power plays at Yellowstone. Besides, there’s NO protection for Cespedes as is but if you let Cespedes walk, do you really want Jay Bruce, Lucas Duda or Granderson to be that guy without any protection!?
Bolstering the bullpen would be a great idea, but I think that is 2018 talk. How do you walk into 2017 knowing DeGrom, Harvey, Matz and Wheeler are all coming back off of surgery and assume they’ll be as effective?
I think you could sign a guy like Chapman (who wouldn’t want an elite closer) but given Cespedes’s value to the Mets, I’d sure that up first.
slider32
I think that the Braves will be going after some bats this winter along with the Phillies. Cespedes will get a lot of attention from other teams who are willing to spend a lot of money for him. I think a player like Cespedes and McCann would make the Braves a contender with the middle of the line-up of Freeman, Cespedes, Kemp, and McCann.
stangny
We don’t need Cespedes. Let him sign elsewhere & take the draft pick compensation. It’s time for Conforto to play LF full time. Either trade Bruce for top shelf bullpen help or let him play out his option & leave as a free agent along with Granderson both after 17 season. Don’t resign Walker, take the draft pick compensation. We have Matt Reynolds to play 2B. Mets could have their own 1st round pick plus 1st round picks for Cespedes & Walker. 17 season outfield will be Conforto LF, Granderson / Lagaures CF, Bruce / Nimmo RF. 18 season outfield Conforto, Lagaures, Nimmo. Next offseason Mets get draft picks for letting Cabrera & Bruce leave as FA’s. That would mean 6 first round draft picks in 17 & 18 combined while having a competitive playoff team.