The Mets are listening to offers for center fielder Juan Lagares, Mike Puma of the New York Post reports. However, Puma notes that there’s skepticism within the industry about a trade coming together. New York may have to eat some of the $15.5MM left on Lagares’ contract in order to move him, suggests Puma, who points out that’s not something the team’s often willing to do. The Mets are already low on available spending room as it is – they may only have around $10MM to play with, per Puma – and that’s without having addressed one of second or third base (depending on where Asdrubal Cabrera plays in 2018) or adding a first baseman/outfielder.
- As far as free agent right-handers go, the Cubs have shown more interest this offseason in adding Yu Darvish than re-signing Jake Arrieta. Regardless, the club doesn’t appear likely to engage in “a steep bidding war” for either, according to Gordon Wittenmyer of the Chicago Sun-Times. And while the 31-year-old Darvish may land the bigger contract this winter, Wittenmyer argues that the decorated Arrieta – who’s five months older – could end up as the better bet.
- Former major league outfielder/designated hitter Luke Scott expressed interest in making a comeback at the Winter Meetings earlier this month, Roch Kubatko of MASNsports.com reports. The former Astro, Oriole and Ray hasn’t played in the majors since 2013, though, and he last suited up at the minor league level in 2015. The lifetime .258/.340/.481 hitter will turn 40 in June. If he can’t resume his playing career, Scott’s open to becoming a hitting coach, Kubatko adds.
- Free agent righty Tyler Wilson is nearing a deal with an unnamed team, Kubatko relays in the same piece. To this point, Wilson has spent his pro career with the Orioles, who chose him in the 10th round of the 2011 draft. He saw action in Baltimore as a swingman in each of the previous three seasons and posted a 5.22 ERA, 4.77 K/9 and 2.42 BB/9 across 145 1/3 innings (42 appearances, 19 starts).
Always liked Luke Scott
Agreed 1000%, I just always hated the mutton chops, he sported later in his career 😛
And People made fun of Colby Rasmus’ Amish beard? million times better than mutton chops IMO
Mathematically, you can’t like somebody more than 100%.
He’s obviously just mad for you pointing out Rasmus’ terrible “amish” beard…!! lol..
I tend to be Hyperbolic, which isn’t meant to be taken literally, but intended to demonstrate my fondness of Mr. Scott, despite my criticism of his facial hair style. I really did like Luke Scott during his playing days and You still understood my point.
But assume I meant 100% and if that’s not good enough imagine me recanting that statement, and replacing it with “100%”
Thanks for clarifying
You’re welcome? Why are you thanking me.
Ohh I get it. Sarcasm!
What did I do to you to warrant that sarcastic response… kinda cold.
My comment was directed at amishthunderak lol
Love, or admiration is not a pie.
I tend to be parabolic, so don’t take me figuratively … but I agree with you -27.3%
Would have really disliked many 1970’s ballplayers then.. muttonchops, crazy beards and long hair was the in thing for ball players back then.
Check out a picture (if can find it) of a ball player named oscar gamble circa 76-78 who had the wildest looking afro and whose hat would constantly fly off whenever he went after a flyball in the OF because of it. The thing must have been over 12:” over his head and his mutton chops? very long.
I used to love the Braves former closer Kerry Ligtenburg…Solely for his burns!! lol
For those who don’t remember Kerry, Google him and his awesome style!! lol..Fair warning though, I’m only about 60% sure it’s spelled Kerry Ligtenburg..
Jose Cardenal sported a Afro also that was in the Oscar Gamble tradition.
Kerry Ligtenberg
My favorite hair was fake…..Mike Schmidt’s wig.
Until he takes the field wearing his “Make America Great Again” hat on “accident”
I remember Scott being an Obama “truther”
Wow I didn’t like him until you just told me that. I wish him all the best now!
Merry Christmas to all, even to all the hidebound racists.
They truly need the message of Good Will To All.
And the same to all the downvoters. May you rise above your resentments. You’ll feel better about yourselves.
Luke Scott was the Ted Nugent of MLB — a staunch Republican. I think because of President Trump’s approval rating being so low, there’s no chance teams would even want to watch Scott try out. Same thing Arrieta is finding out this offseason after he couldn’t leave politics out of baseball, that the offers aren’t what he thought they would be. Scott should have tried to come back a year ago when he would have gotten an opportunity.
MLB almost definitely has the most conservative players of all the major sports. I really don’t think it’s a factor.
I know zip about the real guy, but in MLB The Show I used to be able to hit a HR once every 3 plate appearances with Luke Scott, despite his lower ranking.
Must have been the red bat.
I always liked Gary Gaetti. Wouldn’t advise a comeback attempt.
Can you fill me in, I don’t understand where the Gaetti reference came from??
Believe it is Luke Scott that after being out of MLB since ’13 and professional baseball as a whole since 2015, playing overseas in ’14 and ’15, that is attempting a ML comeback…
Nowhere did I read anything about Gary Gaetti, who by the way, has to be what 60 years old by now?? lol
It’s sarcasm
As in just a random old guy making a comeback, or is there some kind of inside joke about Scott and Gaetti I’m obviously not in the know about?? lol…
Either way, clearly over my head…
I guess just some random old guy since the first guy said he always liked Luke Scott
I feel like you’re still going to be trying to do the math on this comment a week from now.
Gaetti is a starter on the all ugly mlb team along w stalwarts Otis Nixon and Andy Echebarren
With Willie McGee in the 2 hole
Bartolo Colon is a free agent
Otis Nixon had to hate his mother for him being so damn ugly. He’s the Russian Roulette bullet of baseball cards.
Poor Otis, especially when he was playing next to Neon. He really did look like he’d been beaten with a track shoe as a baby.
We’re not selling jeans here!
Maybe Matt Klentak will sign Luke Scott and put him in CF?
I don’t think the cubs will sign either. I say Darvish ends up in Minnesota or Houston
Eggcelent! Maybe you weren’t eggzactly eggspacting an egg pun, but I used one when stating how I felt about the Chubs trying to sign Darvish.
Another note. When I read a team is interested in Darvish, I think yes every team is interested in Darvish, depending on the price. If Darvish is eggspacting to only want a 2 year $6 million contract every team in the MLB and most in Japan. Would be what you call interested. EGGcelente!
I stopped reading your comment after like 7 words, so I have no idea what you’re talking about
EGGcelente! This website says Team A is interested in a very, very, very good player. I say of course they are, every team is interested. Whether a team will try to sign them depends on the price they want to sign for. If Darvish was willing to sign for 2 years $6 million, teams would be trying even harder to sign him than they did for Shohei Ohtani. But if the Darvish would only sign for 17 years $789 million, he would have to retire from baseball. Eggcelent eggsample!!!
Michaelw, I see you have arachnophobia, a fear of egg related puns. I am sorry if I scared you.
What’s the word for the aversion to foolish posts?
Intelligence.
Teams should be very wary of Arrieta’s loss in velocity and his mechanics. Not only are they hard to repeat, but it seems like an injury is coming soon.
That 2015 season is something i’ll never forget with him. 16 was still pretty good especially his postseason but man I legitimately felt every start he was gonna be unbeatable and he was
Has there been any reports of him getting anything cleaned up or worked on this offseason??
Idk, kind of like you alluded to, he just didn’t seem to be fully healthy last season…Arrieta is a freak when it comes to nutrition and keeping his body healthy, so he’s very in tune with his body…He’d certainly know if he was unhealthy…Maybe he pushed himself too hard, knowing it was a contract year?? Or possibly pitched through some pain and minor injuries, causing him to make small and uncomfortable adjustments to his mechanics??
Maybe he was thinking to just pitch through the injuries to not have the them listed and documented for teams to point to when they are trying to negotiate his upcoming contract, idk??
Obviously, idk, I’m not a big Cubs fan, nor did I see Arrieta pitch a bunch last year, maybe about 6 starts with mix results…So, I could be off completely..I’m just taking a guess, and asking out of curiosity, because something was clearly off…
Anyone have any educated guesses, or any further information on Arrieta??
My educated guess is that he’s getting older and losing velocity.
Power to him if he wants to try, but it’s the longest of shots. If he had a skillset that gave him a look-in, sure….but nearly 40 year olds who haven’t contributed anything of worth in 7 years, who were absolute butchers when forced to use a glove, aren’t likely to get a sniff.
7 years? How so? It will be 2018 season
He last played in the minors in 2015
and the majors in 2013!
His last decent year was 2010.
Arrietta has some serious control issues. He rarely throws anything in the strike zone. Hitters start laying off his stuff by the second at bat, and the walks ensue. I don’t understand how no one else has noticed this. Anything he throws in the strike zone gets hammered, and he tends to lose his pinpoint control by the 4th or 5th inning.
Well said
Are Sox and cub fans agreeing on something?
the red line is the only thing Cubs and Sox fans have in common.
Completely agree.
First noticeable sign of injury to a pitcher is usually loss of location, followed by loss a in Velocity. Arrieta has a tough time rebounding from all the innings he threw in Cubs WS year.
Can someone inform me what the Mets are doing?
If Rosario struggles again, they have no infield to speak of.
They’ve got Conforto,Cespedes, and a platoon bat in Nimmo in the OF.. Now they want to eat money to trade a decent outfielderr.
They have the most question mark filled rotation in baseball.
Rosario didn’t struggle with his big league debut, you might be thinking of their first baseman Dominic Smith.
Rosario has a ops of 665 in 165 at bats so he did have his rookie struggles. That being said 2017 is absolutely no good way to determine how he will be as he is learning at the ML level now. Talented kid he is
for a rookie that got called up for 2 months in the bigs, he did very well. Also Dominic Smith is the one that mets fans should worry about
“Can someone inform me what the Mets are doing?”
Same thing Fred Wilpon always does, stealing every last dollar from Mets fans bank accounts.
Wilpon is a scam artist taught by the master Bernie Madoff.
The Mets have $50M tied up in LF Yoenis Cespedis and 3B David Wright. If both of them play like they’re paid… But they won’t.
Wright’s contract is 75% insured if he’s on the disabled list 60 days.
Wright’s contract affords the Mets flexibility, in a worst case scenario.
“Mets are in attendance for Luke Scott’s work out”
I’m with you. Who do the Mets think will take on Lagares’ contract AND give up a player who could help this year. And a CF would be more expensive than any position to replace. They’re killing me right now
You know it’s a slow offseason when Tyler Wilson gets his own bullet on MLBTR
I wonder if a trade partner for Lagares might be the Angels, CJ Cron in maybe a straight trade, maybe cash from NY to even out the salaries. The Angels currently don’t really have a bench, so that could be a good fit.
Sorry, but Luke Scott is no class trash. Sorry if your memory deceives you.
I didn’t know much about the guy and what you were implying so I read a few stories about him. Seems like your opinion about him is exactly that, an opinion from someone who doesn’t know him. He seems like a well liked guy.
More like he’s a chump.
Google Luke Scott racist. Also Simschifan I wouldn’t trust you to know what Google is.
Soxfan1 voted for Hillary.
The lowest approval rating in history, and Trump supporters still show their faces in public?
At least Hillary would not have spent $1.4 Trillion tax breaks for corporations and 1 percenters with an already massive budget deficit and rotting infrastructure. You people have been played, and you know it.
Clearly they don’t know it. That is the problem.
ChiSoxCity,
Where do you get these ratings? CNN? WasPost? HuffPost? ESPN? Good God, Please don’t say Vox.
How about any reputable mainstream source. I understand the mainstream media’s message doesn’t resonate with your view of reality. But it’s the closest thing to journalistic integrity you’re going to find.
RT is the closest thing to journalistic integrity that any of us can find in the USA.
I saw SundownDevil in Virginia marching around with a torch earlier this year.
I really don’t get the Mets
They have obvious needs in the rotation, infield and outfield, yet spend $14m on a reliever when they already have Ramos and Familia
Then== they proceed to give their GM an extension, but have less than $10,000,000 to play around with.
The definition of dysfunction
#LOLMets is back!
Following the trend of most baseball teams – spending money on relievers instead of SP to shorten the game. At least they didn’t give $60M to a 1B when they already had a couple.
who did that?
How is it that Wilpon is still operating the Mets as if he’s moments from bankruptcy? You’d think he was still making payments to Madoff. Just sell the team, and your troubles will be over unless $1B+ isn’t enough to satisfy your debts.
It’s really too bad that virtually every Mets story has to revolve around their unwillingness to spend–regardless of the amount.
They spent.
On Tebow.
For non-baseball reasons.
I had totally forgot about that. What a joke. I was happier when I had forgot about that.
Yup. Mets are again a joke. #LOLMets are back.
The cubs should be going after lance lynn or alex cobb instead of darvish
Prefer the draft pick, I think.
somebody should tell Gordon to shut up nobody reads that rag
The team that knows him the best doesn’t want anything to do with Jake Arrieta moving forward.
Maybe they know he stopped drinking his magic potion.
The problem with Jake is he thinks he should get 7yr 200mil and 6y 180 is a great deal when it should be more like 5yr 110mil with 24 the first year and 22 the second and 22 the third then 20 and 20 his last two and that is fair. I bet he told the Cubs 6yr 180 or I am gone and the Cubs said thanks for your time……
I still buy into my original theory, but…if they sign Darvish, I think they lose a third round pick, but if Arrieta signs elsewhere, I think they’d gain a second round pick, so there is a nice bonus there.
They lose nothing if they sign Darvish
Typical Mets. They will trade Lagarus and he will be the next Justin Turner
I’m so scared we are going to waste one of the best rotations in baseball by continuing to operate like we’re the Tampa Bay Rays, Minnesota Twins. Not surprised at all to hear Kinsler rejected the deal to come here and went to LAA, he will actually have some protection in lineup! Players have zero confidence that they will be surrounded by any other bat, frustrating. I thought at least like a Starlin Castro type would be added. No our big winter move was bringing back a special advisor…happy holidays. LETS PRETEND WE ARE A BIG MARKET TEAM
Got that out of my system Lols. All I want for Xmas is a decent bat to protect La Potencia.
I thought Theo was hoping for a Cobb salad this Holiday Season?
xfactr Yes Theo wanted him some Cobb salad, but for about 4yr 60mil not 5yr 100mil like I think he’s asking.
What does don’t appear even mean?
Man Lo Cain would be ideal here in Queens. We have lacked team speed for years now (besides ol boy Reyes)