I know you guys look forward to hearing from Ken Rosenthal during Fox broadcasts of Mets games, so I thought you’d like to know that Ken thinks the Mets should trade Reyes now.
While April 19th seems early, maybe 10-20 record won’t be. If Sandy is going to rip off the band-aid, why wait until July and have a summer of distracting drama (oh wait, this is the Mets, that will happen anyway) when you can get that over with on May 10th?
Unless you think .590 ball is here to stay.
Now I lived through 1977 so I assure you that neither the Reyes Drama nor the After Effect will be pleasurable. It’s just a matter of where to split the season. The only way out is to announce Reyes has re-signed and I doubt either party will do that in season.
At 11-5 this would be a non-story (at least for another 2 months). At 5-11 expect to hear lots of this.
One gleam of hope Mets fans – remember a fellow named Nomar Garciapara? Leader of the Red Sox? You know, that inept franchise that never won? Check his baseball card.
I was hoping the Mets would re-sign Reyes, but I’m becoming convinced that it is best to trade him. Not any fault of Jose’s, but he’ll be entering his decline by the time Sandy Alderson can put enough other pieces together to make the Mets be playoff contenders again.
It would be better to get some young up-and-coming player(s) for Reyes than sign him to a Carl Crawford-type contract.
They’d lose money by not resigning Reyes.
The reason teams wait until July is because contending teams have more pressure on them to make a move and non contending teams have more leverage.
That said trading Reyes now is a white flag, and the impact would definitely be felt in ticket sales later this year.
Somewhere in the MetsPolice archives is a comment section in which I advocated ripping off the band-aid in the ’08-’09 offseason so we’d already be 3 years into the process by now.
That said, having already waited this long to admit things aren’t working, there’s no real point in management getting antsy now. *IF* there’s a team out there that feels like getting Reyes for the majority of the season is worth a premium (in addition to having him for 5 months instead of 2, perhaps they think it’ll increase their chances of re-signing him), hear them out, but no way do you do it just for the sake of getting it over with.
You guys talking about the devastating affect this will have on ticket sales are cracking me up. In the words of Dale Gribble, “Open your EYES, man.” The difference in attendance between squat and diddly-squat isn’t going to cover a $100M+ contract.
trade him to a team who would like to win now,we get a blue chip player. for the future!