The Mets with the Golden Gloves
The Gold Glove award winners were announced last week and once again David Wright won the award at third base and Carlos Beltran won in the outfield. It is Wright’s second gold glove and Beltran’s third.
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Ten Mets Free Agents
The number of Mets players who have filed for free agency has now reached 10. They are: Moises Alou, Tony Armas Jr., Luis Ayala, Damion Easley, Orlando Hernandez, Pedro Martinez, Ramon Martinez, Oliver Perez, Ricardo Rincon and Matt Wise. The Mets Free Agency Tracker page will continue to track players who have filed for free agency and update their status as it changes.
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3 Mets File for Free Agency
Damion Easley, Oliver Perez and Matt Wise are among the 64 players who have already filed for free agency.
Easley, while important the last couple of years because of Luis Castillo‘s balky knees and other second base issues, will probably not be resigned. It’s been widely believed that the Mets will try to acquire a young second baseman in the offseason making Easley expendable.
Wise is no great loss considering he only pitched 8 games in the 2008 season.
Perez will be a big winner in free agency. He had a very good year in which he pitched well in several big games. Add that to the commodity of being a lefty and he has all the ingredients of a player who will be signed for more money than his career numbers prove he’s worth. Outside of Castillo, general manager Omar Minaya has made a habit of avoiding signing players like that.
So it looks to me like all three of these guys will be gone by the time spring training starts.
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Tatis Signed
The Mets signed Fernando Tatis for one year at $1.7 million. A good move to lock up a good bench bat.
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Delgado’s Option Picked Up
The Mets took the first step toward preparing for the 2009 season by picking up the option on Carlos Delgado‘s contract. What remains to be seen is which Carlos Delgado will show up. The one who stunk through the 2007 season and through may of the 2008 season? Or the one who put up MVP numbers from June to the end of the 2008 season?
The option calls for one more year so Delgado will be a free agent after next season which will open the door for another first baseman in 2010. Perhaps Daniel Murphy?
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Congratulations to the World Champion Phillies
Withe the Philadelphia win last night the Mets task for next season has been fully defined: beat the world champs.
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Softball Removed From Maine’s Shoulder
John Maine has had surgery to remove the bone spur in his right shoulder. According to Maine the doctors said they had never seen one as big as the one they removed from his shoulder. It was supposedly the size of a softball. Maine is expected to be ready for spring training.
For an explanation of what a bone spur is see this link.
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HHR: Choking Hazard
In the absence of any real news I must post this link to an amusing post at Hugging Harold Reynolds.
Hat tip to Hugging Harold Reynolds.
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Updates
It’s been mostly quiet in Metsville since the team finalized the contracts on general manager Omar Minaya and manager Jerry Manuel. Manuel has said that he hopes to have his coaching staff finalized by early next week. So with so nothing to write about I’ve spent a little time doing some updates to the blog. I’ve put up the annual opening day countdown timer at the top of the page and updated the StubHub and Upcoming Games widgets in the right sidebar for the 2009 season. That’s right! You can already buy tickets for next season! Enjoy.
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Manuel Back?
It looks like Jerry Manuel will be returning as manager of the Mets next season and beyond. I read on one of the other blogs this morning (I forget which one) that the sticking point in the negotiations was the length of the contract with the Mets reportedly offering 2 years and Manuel asking for 3. The latest rumor has Manuel getting 2 years with a club option for a third year.
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