It's starting to look like it's going to be the Nats. Jon Heyman @JonHeyman 7m7 minutes ago Hearing nats are pressing to get cespedes deal done. Belief is they're willing to go to about 100M/5 yrs, maybe a bit more. Jon Heyman @JonHeyman 6m6 minutes ago Nats interested in structuring a cespedes deal over many years, a la scherzer deal. Talks serious.
We as Mets fans should expect nothing less. Like I said before, it would've been shitty enough to lose him to the Angels or Giants or whoever..but now its gonna be in our division? Yay
If this deal happens it is crazy that the two position players that are probably most responsible for getting us to the world series( even though that had a bad world series) are going to end up playing for our division rivals.
That's what happens when your team is run by penny pinching scrooges. MLB did us no favors by keeping the Wilpons in charge.
Manfred: NL could get DH as soon as 2017 is awful news. Watching the manager actually having to manage is why I prefer the National league. Just ugh!
If they are willing to go 3 yrs instead of sticking with the 1 yr we were hearing then fuck it go to 5. Letting him go to the Nats hurts us.
Especially considering NEITHER Murphy or Cespedes were the Nats first choice! More like third choice in each case.
They are never going to 5. They aren't going to 3. If they can convince him to go 1 year at a big number with the enticement that he enters free agency again next year, they'd do it. Of course he'd be an idiot to give up a 5 year deal so (i) he won't do it and (ii) the Wilpons know that. He's not coming back. _
I think the Wilpons are banking on the fanbase not staying pissed about both Murphy AND Cespedes going to the Nationals. They figure as long as they got the Big 3 pitching, the rubes will fill the ballpark and their pockets.
The Wilpons are trying to replicate lasts years storyline, stay competitive until the trade deadline, look to add a player from a team who is out of it and wants to get some young talent in return for a rent a player that can propel them to the pennant. This is not good for the fans.
New report suggesting maybe Cespedes would prefer to remain with the Mets. Grain of salt of course but if there is any truth to it the Mets need to throw in an extra year and give him 4 for 85-90 mil and call it a day. Ball is in their court. If he wanted to be in Washington he probably would've signed already since they are supposedly offering him 5 years. And knowing their owner they probably aren't short changing him either. Either keep 30 homers in your lineup or add it in the lineup of your only division threat.
I'm more concerned about losing Cespedes than him going to the Nats, but I agree that if he wanted to sign with them he likely would have already. my feeling all off season was that he wanted to remain a Met, so hopefully the three year with an option out is a viable solution for him to give it one more shot here.
It's stupid for him to turn down a 5 year deal, that's the luxury of being a baseball player, guaranteed contract even when players start to decline. He may be done after 3 years as a player and no one is going to give him big money then, he needs to be fiscally smart and take the 5 year deal, he needs to walk away from this ownership.
Hypothetically, A 3 year $75 million deal with the mets is a better deal than 5 years $100 million. Let's say Cespedes plays out all 3 years; absent of falling completely apart he can likely get a two year $25 million dollar deal from another team after that, so it would all come out the same. But if he can make $25-30 million this year, and opt out if he has another stellar year, there's no way he can't exceed the remaining $70-75 million over the next four years he leaves on the table from the Nats. $20 million per year from the Nats isn't a great offer and the financials of baseball show not difficult to exceed. Teams simply have concerns about him.
Reports are he's considering a 3 year deal from the Mets with an opt-out after one year. Just friggin do it already.
