I can't see either. Boston already has Beckett, Dice-K, Lester, Penny, Wakefield, Buchholz, & Bowden while the Phillies spent on Ibanez & Moyer.
i would like to see the mets try to steal adam laroche from the pirates if possible. he is in his last year and the pirates organization thinks Laroche is expecting too much. Dejan Kovacevic of the pittsburgh post gazette
omar is meeting with scott boras to discuss Lowe & Perez. Hopefully we walk away with a Tri Fecta of Boras clients Lowe,perez and Manny
Mets Pursuing Redding, Wolf By Nat Boyle [January 6, 2009 at 9:52pm CST] Mike Fitzpatrick of the Associated Press reports the Mets have made an offer to Tim Redding and are readying one for Randy Wolf. The Mets need two starters and are also looking at Derek Lowe and Oliver Perez to fill out their rotation. No details on the offer to Redding. Fitzpatrick cites an unnamed source. In 2008, Redding won 10 games for a team that didn't win 60, finishing with a 4.95 ERA and in 33 starts and 182 IP. In November he had foot surgery and is expected to be ready for spring training. I think this is to push boras hand
I think Boras is a little too smart for that. These are both back-of-the-rotation guys; maybe they sign one, but unless the price is cheap enough to allow for one or both to end up in long relief, you can't sign both (you can't possibly go into the season with a rotation of Santana, Pelfrey, Maine, Redding and Wolf). I suspect that if Redding accepts the offer the Mets would pull one to Wolf, and if Wolf got and accepted one they would pull the one to Redding. The Mets need at least one of Lowe and Perez.
How will the Mets' new ballpark play? Wednesday, January 7, 2009 | Feedback | Print Entry Posted by Rob Neyer From Amazin' Avenue and Hit Tracker's Greg Rybarczyk, some fascinating stuff about the Mets' new home: Eric Simon: For starters, what makes Citi Field a "Grand Canyon" where Shea Stadium was merely a decent pitcher's park? The park dimensions are nearly identical, with Shea actually slightly deeper in many cases. Greg Rybarczyk: I'm sure most people have not had access to the drawn-to-scale Citi Field prints, as I have, but when you compare the dimensions you get there for Citi Field with the ones for Shea Stadium that you get from overhead satellite photos, you will see that Citi Field is actually deeper in almost every part of the park, and by a large amount. You will see that only in the corners is Shea deeper, and then only barely so in LF and a bit more so in RF, while Citi Field is a) hugely deeper in RF and RCF, and b) somewhat deeper with much taller fences in LF and LCF. --snip-- Really, Citi Field is not even close to Shea dimension-wise, and home runs will be drastically reduced. I predict this because over the last three years, my analysis of every home run hit in MLB revealed that approximately 29% of all home runs have cleared the fence by 10 feet or less. At least half of the Citi Field outfield fence is either 10 or more feet deeper, or effectively 10 or more feet deeper due to a combination of longer distance and higher fence height. --snip-- I think the odds of Johan [Santana] winning the Cy Young are pretty good, actually. Of course he's got to pitch well, but the field is going to help him and help the relievers that try to keep his inherited runners from scoring, and the relievers who try to close out the game in the 9th. Since the Mets have a great CF in Beltran, they will never be worse than even with an opponent in terms of covering the huge outfield, so there's another plus for the Mets. I think scoring may not necessarily be that much lower, also, due to the certain increase in triples, and most likely in other non-homer hits as well due to the bigger field. Homers will be way down, but I see Jose Reyes liking the deep RCF alley, he will certainly rack up some triples and maybe some ITP homers as well. That last bit is hyperbolic, of course; nobody hits inside-the-park homers any more, not unless an outfielder falls down and can't get up. But otherwise I don't know why a bigger outfield wouldn't help the Mets, and Santana in particular. My one concern is that aside from Beltran, their outfielders aren't the fleetest afoot. 18 comments on "How will the Mets' new ballpark play?"
Word is the Mets are almost done with a deal to sign Tim Redding to a 1 year, incentive laden deal. Solid move for a 5th starter I guess, and gives up some depth. I'm curious to see though what this means for Jon Niese.
http://www.metsblog.com/ I guess it makes sense to have somebody like him on the team who can be either a 5th starter or long reliever.... Still, whats wrong with Parnell or Neise?
Mets Sign Tim Redding By Tim Dierkes [January 9 at 2:12pm CST] 2:12pm: Troy Renck says Redding agreed in principle to a one-year, $2.25MM deal with the Mets. 1:12pm: According to SI.com's Jon Heyman, the Mets are close to signing Tim Redding to a one-year deal for $2.25MM plus incentives. Ken Davidoff of Newsday also has it, suggesting the deal is for about $2.5MM. The Mets figure to add Derek Lowe or Oliver Perez as well. Not sure if this takes them out on Pedro Martinez. After signing Lowe or Perez the Mets may have the luxury of using Mike Pelfrey in the #5 role to limit his innings slightly. SIGN PEDRO SIGN LOWE AND SIGN OLLIE JUST KEEP STOCKPILING PITCHERS
Redding was probably the Nationals best player last year and can definitely still pitch. Lowe demanded way too much money and Niese and Parnell aren't ready yet. He was the best option for the Mets outside of Lowe.
redding is a good sign. he is going to be a long reliever/ possible 5th hopefully he is a spot 5th and long reliever.you can go into a season with just 5. look at 2006 you need 6 or 7 starters. btw if we sign lowe. arent teams afraid to pay ollie b/c they would owe us their 1st round pick? could we possibly get both?
