The Daily News’ Mark Feinsand and Bill Madden say the Mets “don’t seem to be inclined to get involved with the big free agents such as Matt Holliday” and so should be in on trade talks. They also say the Tigers will cut payroll, but “it’s highly unlikely that any team would take on the mammoth contract of Miguel Cabrera.”
Wait a minute, hold the phone. Would the Tigers really be looking to dump Cabrera’s salary? It’s huge, mind you — he’s owed $126 million over the next six seasons — but he’s not even 27 yet and he’s completely awesome. So awesome, in fact, that Fangraphs valued him at $24.3 million in 2009, more money than he’ll make in any single year in his current contract. Obviously I have no idea what he’d cost in a trade package, I’m just saying. Some team with money should be willing to take him on.
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All of these guys, these reporters all come in with different stuff. Heyman and Sherman say Holliday will come down to the Mets and Cards, Harper says the Mets arent interested in Holliday, or Lackey but Rosenthall says the Mets are hard after Lackey. Its just a mess of contradictory info.
These guys must get this stuff from somewhere (since I dont think they are always flat out making it up), and ‘team officials’ must give them bits and pieces of stuff here and there.
With that said do you think team officials might try to have a litt fun with these guys? I can see a Mets exec sitting in his office when Heyman calls and telling him one thing, then when Rosenthal calls telling him another, then when Sherman calls telling him a new story, the reading the paper the next day and laughing about it.
I don’t think it’s just about having fun with them, I think it’s also about leaking information and gauging response. Plus who knows? If they’re shrewd, they might be leaking that they don’t have the money to pay Holliday in an attempt to bring Holliday’s price tag down.
That said, I do think inside-baseball people like to have fun with reporters sometimes. Bobby Ojeda told me the Mets of the late 80s used to anonymously leak made-up stories about each other just to see how far the reporters would run with them.
Yea thats exactly what I mean. I do understand all the posturing and all that, of course the Mets are nevr going to come out and say who they are all in on, no one is going to show thier hand like that.
But like the Ojeda story, I have to think that these guys must at times just f*** with these insiders just because they can.
I have no idea whose stories to believe, but it would certainly seem to make sense for the Mets to pursue at least one big free agent in a year when their first-round draft pick is protected.