The D’Backs will pay $6.3 million of the $13.5 million owed to Mets OF Shawn Green through 2008, writes the Associated Press… Green will earn $1.75 million through the rest of this season, $500,00 of which will be paid by Arizona, and $9.5 million in 2007 with a $2 million buyout on his deal in 2008… …not bad… …you figure this means the mets will pay green roughly $6 million next season, which would make him of interest to other teams should they want to trade him during the off-season, yet affordable should they look to keep him… Green, as quoted by the AP… “Had I played my whole career and never played in New York, I always would have wondered what it was like. We feel we're up for an adventure. At this stage in my career, it's a perfect fit.”…
I don't think they're too worried about options with Milledge since it's not like he's going to be a guy who's going to be constantly moving back and forth between the majors and minors, like Heath Bell. If they send him down again, it will probably be the last time since he will be here for the future.
By the way Yom Kippur takes place this year between sunset October 1 and nightfall October 2. We've got a meaningless 1:05 pm game against the Nats that day...
No ways Lastings goes, we need RH bats. You can't carry Tucker, Ledee and Green. Or do you really want Woodward as the second RH option off the bench?
If the Mets send Lastings down he probably won't be a Met next season. Needless to say I don't like this trade at all. If they're going to take on several million next year for a useless player, why didn't they go after a guy with a big contract who's actually a good player, like Abreu? Not to mention that Green and Tucker probably are pretty comparable offensively at this point, and there's no question that Tucker is better defensively.
How come when they Yankees made a similiar deal for Abreu, all I would hear is how it was "unfair" and how the Yankees are ruining baseball?
Potential all-star? Green has been playing at an Xavier Nady-like level for his last 3 full seasons, and is even worse this year. You're delusional.
Except Abreu is younger and better than Green, and the main reason that the Phillies traded Abreu is so the Yankees could absorb that entire monstrosity of a contract. The Mets trade was a player trade. The D'backs had no use for Green because of Carlos Quentin, and they're paying most of his contract for this season. Completely different.
The Dbacks are paying the Mets to take him, how is that the same as the Bankees taking Abreu's contract in full?
