Monday, February 23, 2004
Newsday: Reyes for Soriano?
No. No no no no no no no.
I have a hard time believing there's any truth to the rumors that the Mets might be willing to part with Jose Reyes as part of a deal for Alfonso Soriano, and I don't think that's just my general Mets-related optimism talking. The Star Ledger, for example, quotes someone or other calling it "very, very unlikely".
If the Mets can somehow manage to get Soriano to play right field, without giving up Reyes (or Kazmir, or Wright, or Huber, or Peterson, or...), I'm all for it. I don't know that he can play right field competently and in light of his recent rapid aging, among other things, I don't think he's a good bet to be as valuable for the Mets in the next few years as he was for the Yankees in the last few. But it would take a collapse of Alomarian proportions to make him a weaker offensive option than any of the current Met right field options.
But one thing the Mets do not need right now is a starting middle infielder. They've got pretty good ones already. And the 20 year old currently occupying second base will be much more useful in the next three, five and ten years than the 28 year old they would get by trading him. Jim Duquette has made a big deal out of claiming to have a plan for bringing the Mets back to the top by building from within. A Reyes-Soriano trade would prove him full of shit and be a quick fix to out-Steve-Phillips Steve Phillips.
If Duquette could perhaps trick the pitching-weak and common sense-impaired Rangers into taking Tom Glavine in exchange for Soriano, on the other hand...
(Glavine probably has some sort of no-trade clause, doesn't he?) ¶ joe | 3:03 PM |
No. No no no no no no no.
I have a hard time believing there's any truth to the rumors that the Mets might be willing to part with Jose Reyes as part of a deal for Alfonso Soriano, and I don't think that's just my general Mets-related optimism talking. The Star Ledger, for example, quotes someone or other calling it "very, very unlikely".
If the Mets can somehow manage to get Soriano to play right field, without giving up Reyes (or Kazmir, or Wright, or Huber, or Peterson, or...), I'm all for it. I don't know that he can play right field competently and in light of his recent rapid aging, among other things, I don't think he's a good bet to be as valuable for the Mets in the next few years as he was for the Yankees in the last few. But it would take a collapse of Alomarian proportions to make him a weaker offensive option than any of the current Met right field options.
But one thing the Mets do not need right now is a starting middle infielder. They've got pretty good ones already. And the 20 year old currently occupying second base will be much more useful in the next three, five and ten years than the 28 year old they would get by trading him. Jim Duquette has made a big deal out of claiming to have a plan for bringing the Mets back to the top by building from within. A Reyes-Soriano trade would prove him full of shit and be a quick fix to out-Steve-Phillips Steve Phillips.
If Duquette could perhaps trick the pitching-weak and common sense-impaired Rangers into taking Tom Glavine in exchange for Soriano, on the other hand...
(Glavine probably has some sort of no-trade clause, doesn't he?) ¶ joe | 3:03 PM |
