Kevin Millwood (one year, $5 million): While many people believe the AL East reclamation project worth pursuing is Javier Vazquez, that will only drive up his price, and likely net him a multi-year deal. What's great about Millwood is that everything superficial that drives down his value contrasts with the evidence that he's worth a one-year flier from the Mets. Millwood's record and ERA in 2009? 13-10, 3.67. In 2010? 4-16, 5.10. Yet his xFIP actually went down from 4.78 to 4.66 year-over-year, his strikeout rate went up, his walk rate went down slightly, and only his home run rate took a slightly negative turn. Millwood would also be moving from the AL East to the NL East, took the ball at least 29 times in each of the last six seasons and eight of nine, and gives the Mets some solid back-of-the-rotation production while Jenrry Mejia learns his craft properly in Triple-A.
SNY
Tsuyoshi Nishioka, a 26-year-old middle infielder for the Chiba Lotte Marines of the Pacific League in Japan, will be posted for MLB teams this week, a source close to the situation said Monday.
Nishioka won the Pacific League batting title this year with a .346 average. He scored 121 runs, stole 22 bases and had 206 hits, the most by a player in that league since Ichiro Suzuki in 1994. Nishioka, a switch-hitter, batted leadoff for the Marines and his team recently won the Japan Series.
"He is a good player, he is a talented kid," said ESPN analyst Bobby Valentine, who managed Nishioka in Japan.
ESPN
Seeking to become the 12th Mets player to reach Cooperstown -- and potentially the second to do so with a Mets cap on his plaque -- Rusty Staub is among 12 candidates named to this year's Veterans Committee's Hall of Fame ballot.
Staub, 66, hit .276 with 75 homers over two stints with the Mets, part of a 23-year career that saw him hit .279 with 292 homers for five different teams. Though Staub's best years -- including two of his three MVP seasons -- came with the Expos, he spent nine seasons in New York and is most readily associated with the Mets. Since his retirement, Staub has frequented Mets games and focused his philanthropic efforts in the tri-state area.
Of the 11 former Mets in Cooperstown, only one -- Tom Seaver -- was inducted as a Met.
MLB
Free agents can now negotiate with any team, but it would be a surprise to see more than a few Type As sign in the next two weeks. Clubs forfeit a top draft pick if they sign Type A free agents before the deadline for teams to offer arbitration to departing free agents. That means teams are probably going to wait until after November 23rd to sign Type A free agents who aren't guaranteed offers of arbitration. If the player's former team doesn't offer arbitration he won't cost anything despite his Type A ranking, so the signing team gets to keep its draft pick.
MLBTR
Trade: Sent to Montreal in Gary Carter deal
After trade: 728 games played, .236/.327/.355 OPS+ 91
Analysis – Great trade for Mets as Carter was one of the keys to 1986 World Series team.
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