I thought I’d fire everyone up with this link.
But even smart guys don’t get it right every time. It seems that Alderson misplayed his hand with shortstop Jose Reyes, whose trade value peaked a month or so ago after half a season of hitting the hide off the ball. A career .287 hitter (with a mediocre .335 on-base pct.) coming into the season, Reyes had been tearing it up in his walk year, hitting over .350 and leading the league in triples. That production made it easy to look past Reyes’ atrocious fundamentals in the field and on the base paths.
Agree from the business aspect and tradability…..should have negotiated in spring training to at least show good faith.Once he got hot it was too late, and his agent was holding all the cards.
Then at the trade deadline I believe the GM fell into the wilc card hype. Should have traded him at deadline, only because I dont believe they are going to sign him after the season
I agree with most of the analysis in that article, but I think Alderson risked a total fan revolt if he traded Reyes for a Zack Wheeler type prospect, which is probably all he would have gotten. Reyes getting hurt the first time, kind of made his value stop skyrocketing to where maybe the Mets maybe could afford him next year…getting hurt the second time, I think they will be able to afford him, but do they want the risk now? Nothing is ever easy for the Mets.