Will the batting title Reyes won Wednesday sway another team toward bidding higher? Will his hamstring injuries this season soften the market? For now, Alderson can only guess.
“Who knows how people will respond?” he said Thursday, sitting on a couch in an empty Mets clubhouse. “Sometimes this is like going to the grocery store. You’ve got a list, until you get to the checkout stand, then you start reading People magazine and all of this other crap ends up in your basket.”
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“As long as it’s not resolved completely for the Wilpons, I think it has a lingering effect on them,” Alderson said. “Does that translate directly to what our payroll will be or what have you? I don’t think so. On the other hand, I think things are looking brighter today than they were a week or so ago.”
via Mets’ Entire Offseason Hinges on What Happens to Reyes – WSJ.com.
