Per Andy Martino at http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/david-mets-wright-deal-article-1.1195318, talks between the New York Mets and
David Wright (his agent) will “begin to intensify” as early as “this week”.
Does this process really need a period of time for it to intensify? It seems to
me that the ball is in the Mets court to get this going. Wright has had his
option picked up ($16mil) for 2013, so Sandy Alderson should know where to
start this process. Also, everyone knows that, no matter what you put on the table,
the other party will come back and ask for more. That’s why they call it a
negotiation. You have two factors here: number of years, and total dollars paid
over that period of years. You can leave the yearly salary breakdown, options,
etc. as something you can talk about once the important stuff is done. Lastly,
you can’t piss the other party off by making your initial offer too low.
Baseball is still a telephone business. No one needs to hop on a plane for a
meeting, or back up every offer with a fax like the real estate business.
Baseball GMs and agents work every day on the phone and I’m sure Alderson has
already put a number in front of the Levinsons. My guess: 5-yrs, $100mil.
On the other hand, Jim
Bowden at ESPN says that the deal with Wright is far from done due to the fact
that “the Mets have “shown the same cavalier attitude they had in their
contract negotiations with David Wright as they did in their negotiations with
Jose Reyes last winter. He also lists Boston, LAA, Arizona, KC, and Texas as
matched up trading partners if Wright was to be moved.
I did some peeking at
their organization and, figuring that the Mets could wrangle away one top
player/prospect and two ‘futures’ for Wright, here’s an example how they could
match up:
Boston Red Sox:
RF Cody Ross,
C Blake Swihart, LHP Henry Owens
Los Angeles Angels:
CF Peter
Bourjos, 3B Kaleb Cowart, OF Randal Grichuk
Arizona Diamondbacks:
OF Geraldo
Parra, RHP Trevor Bauer, OF Alfredo Marte
Kansas City Royals
OF Wil Myers, RHP
Jake Odorizzi, C Mike Kvasnicka
Texas Rangers
3B Mike Ott,
RF Joey Butler, C Brett Nicholas
http://ballparkdigest.com/201211015783/minor-league-baseball/news/ryan-sanders-close-to-buying-b-mets-moving-team-to-ottawa is reporting that ‘The Ottawa
Citizen’ newspaper is reporting that that a company headed by Nolan Ryan,
Ryan-Sanders Baseball, is negotiating to buy the Binghamton Mets and move the
team to Ottawa, Canada. The link on the BPD site to the Ottawa Citizen has been
removed.
I went to the newspaper
and the wording was different than what BPD and some blogs are reporting. They
said:
Nolan Ryan’s company, Ryan-Sanders Entertainment, which
already owns minor league franchises at both the Double-A and Triple-A levels, is
believed to be negotiating through Beacon Sports Capital Partners to own a
minority share in the Eastern League (Double-A) franchise poised to set up shop
in Ottawa in 2014.
Look folks, I’ve been
on both sides of these ‘rumor’ type of stories. In fact, I got my ass reamed
after reporting the wrong three names for the Sandy Alderson troika-VP system
that was coming in.
The information here
may all be true and the sale may go through, but, there also is a good chance
that it is a slow time of the year and some reporter is trying to spin this a
little different than it stands right now.
Let’s say I call you up
and ask you if you would sell your truck to me and you say no. Then, six months
later, I ask you if you have changed your mind and would you now consider
selling me your truck and you say hell no.
A reporter or blogger
might turn this into a headline like “negotiations continue on the sale of your
truck”, when there never was a negotiation in the first place. All you ever did
was pick up the phone and listen to me expressing my desire to own your truck.
This Ottawa-based
company has desired to own the Binghamton Mets for over two years, but that
doesn’t mean that the current owners are going to sell it.
Wait reports like these
out. Some turn out to be true but most go away as soon as some real Mets news
starts to develop.
Players opting for free
agency:
1B Adam LaRoche – Washington - $10mil – no buyout
P Sean Burnett – Washington - $3.5mil – no buyout
(2012: 1-2, 2.38, 1.23, 56.2-IP, 57-K, 12-BB)
Players Signed:
OF Henry Alvarado – St. Louis – 16-yr. old DR prospect -
$150K
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