New York Mets
Baseball super agent Scott Boras has hit Mets slugger Gary Sheffield with a $600,000 lawsuit. Boras, who represents baseball superstars such as Yankee Mark Teixeira and once had Alex Rodriguez in his stable, filed the suit under seal in Manhattan federal court last week. The two have been feuding since Sheffield dumped Boras just before he signed a $39 million contract with the Yankees, from whom he played from 2004 to 2006. But Boras has claimed Sheffield still owes him money. -- NY Post
All indications point to the Braves wanting pending free agent Adam LaRoche back next season. LaRoche was outstanding in his two months with the team, hitting .325 with 12 home runs. But with phenom Freddie Freeman a year or two away, how many years will the Braves offer LaRoche, who could also get a look from the Mets? -- Macon Telegraph
Is the four-year SportsNet New York partnership of Gary Cohen, Ron Darling, and Keith Hernandez over?
All indications point to the Braves wanting pending free agent Adam LaRoche back next season. LaRoche was outstanding in his two months with the team, hitting .325 with 12 home runs. But with phenom Freddie Freeman a year or two away, how many years will the Braves offer LaRoche, who could also get a look from the Mets? -- Macon Telegraph
Is the four-year SportsNet New York partnership of Gary Cohen, Ron Darling, and Keith Hernandez over?
Was their Sunday call of Nelson Figueroa's 4-0 shutout of Houston, in the Mets' season finale, the trio's final performance together?
Following the game, on the air and in no uncertain terms, Hernandez raised that very possibility. Cohen had just finished talking about how well they've worked together and Darling thanked fans for sticking with them during a season of Mets injuries and abysmal play.
It was then that Hernandez steered off course, dropping a bombshell.
"I've enjoyed the four years and, hopefully, I'm in the middle of negotiating my new contract, hopefully, I'll be back (next season)," Hernandez said.
Mets COO Jeff Wilpon and GM Omar Minaya said they still intended to improve the roster through free agency or trades. The crop of players expected to be available on the free-agent market is not bountiful, but players like outfielder Matt Holliday and pitcher John Lackey will be out there, and if the Toronto Blue Jays make pitcher Roy Halladay available on the trade market again, the Mets will look into him. It is unlikely, however, that the Mets will have the prospects to entice the Blue Jays to make a trade. As for Holliday and Lackey, they will be expensive, and it is unclear how much money the Wilpon family will be willing to spend in the wake of losses incurred through investments with Bernard L. Madoff. -- NY Times
And there's little at the Major League level the Mets could trade for anything of value that they should even consider trading. Outside of maybe Angel Pagan, Jeff Francoeur, Luis Castillo and Josh Thole, just about everybody on the team's roster is at his lowest value point of the last two years. Would they really be smart to trade Mike Pelfrey after a brutal year of being victimized by horrendous defense? Should they look to move Jose Reyes after a season riddled by injury or David Wright after a 10-homer campaign?
Of course not. Sure, there are small pieces the Mets could -- and probably should -- move to rework the Major League roster, but not any that are going to yield a difference-maker in return.
To get one of those via trade, the Mets would have to trade a package of prospects, which is exactly the type of thing that got them into this mess in the first place. I got at this a month ago. The best way -- and maybe the only way -- to foster inexpensive organizational depth is to develop players internally. They don't have to be stars, mind you, just everyday guys and role players that free up payroll to be spent on free-agent acquisitions who could fill the spots the organization could not.
Brooklyn Cylones:
Javier Rodriguez OF (Mets) - Javier was a second round selection of the Mets in 2008. He attended the Puerto Rican Baseball Academy that was created to renew the baseball talent in Puerto Rico. His best tool should be his speed, though his stolen base totals his last two years have been just two. He only hit .230 in the Rookie Gulf Coast League this year and he struck out 39 times in 36 games. If Javier wants to take advantage of his speed he needs to improve that OBA (.285). He won’t be hitting out of the leadoff spot if he doesn’t get on base.
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General:
About five weeks after taking the field with the organization, Stephen Strasburg stood on the mound for the first time and gave up one run on three hits in two innings, which technically makes his earned run average 4.50. The rest of the numbers looked better: The Nationals let him throw 25 pitches. Nineteen were strikes, and 22 were fastballs. All but a couple of balls sailed in low. The fastballs were clocked at 94 to 95 mph, according to a scout from the Milwaukee organization who sat with a radar gun behind the plate. "I wasn't really going with an attack today," Strasburg said. "I didn't really want to bust out my big approach that I used all through college. You don't want to go out and rush it immediately, and try to punch everybody out. . . . Hopefully next time I will crank it up a bit." -- Washington Post
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