Found December 09, 2008 on
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I remember previous seasons reading complaints that Omar Minaya was impatient and too quick to overpay for the player or players he wanted. Now there is criticism about how none of the holes on this team have been filled yet. While I can't pretend to have any insight into our GM's thinking, ...
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December 08, 2008
The winter meeting of Major League Baseball have begun. The Mets, and all the other teams have descended upon the city of Las Vegas in hopes of improving their roster without breaking the banks. Barely checked into Vegas, the Mets...
Via Dom D's Mets Fan Blog
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December 07, 2008
According to SI,com's Jon Heyman, Mets general manager Omar Minaya is meeting Sunday night here with star free-agent closer Francisco Rodriguez, and he is expected to make Rodriguez an offer.
The exact proposal isn't known but they've been internally discussing a three-year contract, and might include a fourth-year vesting option.
Minaya said they might meet with...
Via Machochip
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December 10, 2008
But someone was going to pay him, and that team was again the New York Mets, who got him for a sum of $37 million over three years. And with that, Omar Minaya's replacement for the injured Billy Wagner makes the GM's dream of fielding an all-Latino team thismuchcloser. The 37-year-old Wagner ...
Via Legend of Cecilio Guante
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December 10, 2008
Orgasmic Celebrations, Coming to Shea Soon! First off, business travel blows. Just thought I'd get that out of the way. In other news, my Mets apparently went out and signed the best closer on the market to a three-year deal. I should be exuberant. Instead, I am completely...whatever. The pain of the last two seasons' nose dives still cuts deep and my Met fan cynicism, a...
Via Sports Blog Net
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December 08, 2008
I don't know who to believe anymore.First, Jon Heyman reports a two-year deal, worth $12 mil per. Now, Joel Sherman reports that Paul Kinzer (Francisco Rodriguez's agent) told him the offer is for three years and $33 mil.The Mets have offered a deal i...
Via tonyblogs.net
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December 09, 2008
The Mets got their man, signing closer Francisco Rodriguez to a 3-year, $37 million deal earlier today, adding some much needed help to their bullpen. I, one of the biggest anti-Mets people out there, have to say that this is a great signing and here's why.When free agency started, rumors were ...
Via Five Tool Tool
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December 10, 2008
A classic example today of how fans overvalue the winter meetings. The Mets have apparently signed record-setting reliever Francisco Rodriguez to a three-year, $37 million deal that has the snap reaction of making the team ten games better. It couldn't be simpler, right? A team with a dramatic ...
Via Mets Merized Online
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December 09, 2008
Since the free agency period has now started, players who are free agents can sign with whatever team they wish. Here is the list of moves the Mets have made so far this off-season. This list will be updated after every transaction. Each move will be followed by a grade, provided by myself.Francisco Rodriguez # - New York Mets
SV - 62 ERA - 2.24 SO - 77GRADE: A+ Signed three...
Via NY Baseball Digest
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December 09, 2008
An old saying goes that "Patience is a virtue," and it is never more true with New York Mets GM Omar MInaya. I was speakingA with a NewA York area writer yesterdayabout the lack of dels thus far, when Omar's name came up. "He was really impatient earlier in his GM tenure with Montreal, and somewhat early [...]
Via NY Baseball Digest
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December 08, 2008
The Mets didn't wait to get in on some major action in Vegas yesterday. Omar Minaya and his crew including Jeff Wilpon arrived on Wilpon's jet in Vegas at 5 PM, only to immediately rush off to a local steakhouse to meet with free agent closer Francisco Rodriguez and his agent Paul Kinzer. They spent [...]
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December 08, 2008
The Tigers acquired catcher Gerald Laird from the Texas Rangers late Sunday night, for two prospects, right-handers Guillermo Moscoso and Carlos Melo.
Check out what the Free Press had to say about those two pitching prospects...
Moscoso, 25, made a splash in the Detroit farm system this year by going 5-4 with a 2.70 ERA in 21 games (12 starts) between Class A Lakeland and Double...
Via Dom D's Mets Fan Blog
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December 08, 2008
Another major-league source told the Chicago Tribune that talks linking Chicago White Sox reliever Bobby Jenks and the New York Mets never progressed. Chicago general manager Kenny Williams scouted Mets pitching prospect Bobby Parnell at an Arizona Fall League game last month, but New York is disinclined to trade Parnell, the source said.
The Sox don't have a bona fide backup...
Via Mets Fever
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December 10, 2008
There is a rumor circulating that the Mets have spoke to the D-Backs about reliever Jon Rauch. It's been long rumored, since his days with the Nats that the Mets were interested in Rauch. In fact I've always thought they should have trade Milledge for Church and Rauch not Schneider. Rauch is ...
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December 09, 2008
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December 07, 2008
As NYBD has been reporting, the Mets still prefer Francisco Rodriguez to be the closer, with Brian Fuentes viewed more as option "1a". Kerry Wood falls behind both of them on the list. It's hard to believe the Mets won't just simply get who they want of the bunch. As long as K-Rod accepts a [...]
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