Kelly Shoppach
It turns out that Adrian Gonzalez was not the bad guy on all the Boston
Red Sox text message bullship to the owners. It turns out that it was
now-catcher Kelly Shoppach that was writing the
owners of the team about Bobby Valentine. He
just happened to be using Gonzalez’ cell phone.
Naturally, nobody is confirming
anything and my question would be did Gonzalez know his phone was being used or
was this a pussy move by Shoppach?
This is the kind of player we want on
the team? What’s he going to do here, write the Commissioner about the owners?
Look Sandy, you did this deal and let
it run for the remainder of the year, but no one wants a creep like this on the
team. It’s like having a beat writer or thread posting fan playing behind the
plate.
Cut fish.
According to Adam Rubin: Although
general manager Sandy Alderson publicly said
last week a formal budget has not been established for next season, the Mets
are likely to have a payroll comparable to the slightly more than $90 million
they have committed in 2012, according to a person briefed on the current
internal planning.
If this is true, and the Mets do renew both David Wright and RA Dickey’s contract, well, here’s looking at your team.
If this is true, and the Mets do renew both David Wright and RA Dickey’s contract, well, here’s looking at your team.
Cot has the team at $54,475mil. Add
$16mil for Wright and it’s $70,475mil. Add RA at $5mil and Jon Rauch at, let’s say, $4mil, we’re now at
$79,475.mil.
So, you dump Mike
Pelfrey’s $5,6875mil (replaced with Matt Harvey),
Andres Torres ($2.7mil), Ramon Ramirez ($2.65mil), Kelly Shoppach ($1.35mil),
Tim Byrdak ($1mil) and Manny
Acosta (875K).
You re-sign Ronny
Cedeno at around $2mil, Scott Hairston at
say, $3mil. This brings you in at around $82,575mil.
Your 25-man (two over) at this point
is:
Rotation (6) Santana, Dickey, Niese,
Harvey, Young, Gee
Pen – (7) Francisco, Rauch, Edgin,
Parnell, Carson, Familia, Mejia
IF –(6) Davis, Murphy, Tejada, Wright, Cedeno, Turner
OF – (6) Bay, Hairston, Duda, Baxter,
Valdespin, Nieuwenhuis
C – (2) Thole, Johnson
You now have around $18mil to go
after someone like Michael Bourn and a couple of
secondary players. You still have to deal with that fact that most of the FAs are
going to be offered more by other teams, and most of the agents advise their
players not to sign with the Wilpons, but this is basically your 2013
team. Around 80 wins.
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4 comments:
Do a little research on the whole Kelly Shoppach thing because there are articles explaining the situation.
How do you figure 80 wins? Is the addition of Harvey to the rotation or perhaps a better start by Davis going to make up the difference? It's essentially the same team that exists right now.
It's insanity to expect things to improve with no changes, but then what has Nero Alderson done since he's arrived except shop the scrap heap for that elusive lightning in a bottle.
Chazz:
You're right. I wrote this when the news first came out and rushed it because I had to go out of town. My bad
Reese -
same as Chazz response - I found computer in hospital this morning so I could check my messages
Reese, 80 will probably be an improvement on where the team emds this year, but it won't be 90.
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