Saturday, April 03, 2004
Mets trade Cedeño and bundle of cash for nothing in particular
"Roger Does New York, Part Two" has come to a merciful end as the troubled and increasingly useless outfielder is headed to St. Louis, where the fans love guys who play hard, even if they hit like Bo Hart or Joe McEwing. In return, the Mets get 31 year-old infielder Wilson Delgado, who's never accumulated more than 141 major league plate appearances in a single season, and 32 year-old catcher Chris Widger, who will actually lose his major league roster spot to Vance Wilson before the season starts. The article states that 27 year-old outfielder Eric Valent will be called up to be the Mets' fifth outfielder. Hopefully that's not actually the case.
Cedeño hit .267/.320/.378 in 527 plate apperances for the Mets last year, and that was actually an improvement over his previous season. In his first time around with the Mets, he hit a respectable .313/.396/.408 and stole 66 bases for the 1999 National League Wild Card team. He stole only 39 in the last two years together. The Cardinals have something of a hole in left field that Cedeño will no doubt be asked to occupy from time to time. Somewhere smart Cubs and Astros fans are chuckling to themselves.
Neither Delgado nor Widger will start the season on the Mets' major league roster, nor is either likely to play any significant role at any point in the season. This move can't even be classified as a salary dump, as the Mets are going to pay "a considerable part" of his Cedeño's contract. It's a person dump. This move doesn't add anything of real value to the Mets team, not that any such thing could be expected in exchange for Cedeño. Getting him off the roster is certainly good enough for me, and if a certain move can be made to transform Karim Garcia and Shane Spencer into bench players, the Mets' reserve corps will be all the better. ¶ joe | 7:53 PM |
"Roger Does New York, Part Two" has come to a merciful end as the troubled and increasingly useless outfielder is headed to St. Louis, where the fans love guys who play hard, even if they hit like Bo Hart or Joe McEwing. In return, the Mets get 31 year-old infielder Wilson Delgado, who's never accumulated more than 141 major league plate appearances in a single season, and 32 year-old catcher Chris Widger, who will actually lose his major league roster spot to Vance Wilson before the season starts. The article states that 27 year-old outfielder Eric Valent will be called up to be the Mets' fifth outfielder. Hopefully that's not actually the case.
Cedeño hit .267/.320/.378 in 527 plate apperances for the Mets last year, and that was actually an improvement over his previous season. In his first time around with the Mets, he hit a respectable .313/.396/.408 and stole 66 bases for the 1999 National League Wild Card team. He stole only 39 in the last two years together. The Cardinals have something of a hole in left field that Cedeño will no doubt be asked to occupy from time to time. Somewhere smart Cubs and Astros fans are chuckling to themselves.
Neither Delgado nor Widger will start the season on the Mets' major league roster, nor is either likely to play any significant role at any point in the season. This move can't even be classified as a salary dump, as the Mets are going to pay "a considerable part" of his Cedeño's contract. It's a person dump. This move doesn't add anything of real value to the Mets team, not that any such thing could be expected in exchange for Cedeño. Getting him off the roster is certainly good enough for me, and if a certain move can be made to transform Karim Garcia and Shane Spencer into bench players, the Mets' reserve corps will be all the better. ¶ joe | 7:53 PM |
