Talented pitcher is only 29. But he's apparently seeking a five-year deal. His numbers might justify it, but he has been inconsistent. Some see another Oliver Perez waiting to happen. He was a 16-game winner two years ago and averages eight strikeouts every nine innings over his career. His WHIP has improved in each of the last three seasons (to 1.315 this past season), but only once has he won more than 10 games. He'll be enticing in a very weak free-agent market, but there's a reason why the Rockies didn't want to go more than two years (for around $15 million total).
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“Moneyball” — the book, and soon to be a movie — turned DePodesta into something of a caricature. He is well aware of how he is perceived. But he has to be one of the most unwitting, unassuming polarizing figures in the history of the sport.
DePodesta, 37, joked Tuesday that he worried about being labeled a “dumb jock” while playing football and baseball at Harvard; little did he know that he would become known as a “geek” after he started working in baseball front offices.
Labels. They flow easily from dramatic narrative, the kind you find in a book or movie. But DePodesta isn’t one-dimensional. Neither, for that matter, is Alderson’s other recent front-office hire, J.P. Ricciardi.
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2011 Projection - The Mets have already dropped Valdes from their roster, and I don’t see him returning to the organization in 2011. Although the Mets have already lost Hisanori Takahashi, and likely will lose Pedro Feliciano this winter, I don’t see them adding him as a lefty specialist – mainly because he was ineffective against lefthanded hitters (who hit .330 with a .991 OPS against him). He is a nice enough guy and definitely a team player who will fill any role asked of him, but he’s simply not very good.
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Not that I know what DePodesta is making with the Mets. It's none of my business. But if you believe the Mets need a new direction as I do, then you have to accept that more money is going to the people entrusted to make the decisions for the next five years. And that includes the front office, the scouting department, the minor leagues, everything. You can't take shortcuts anymore. And this isn't to blast Omar Minaya, but when you build an academy in the Dominican Republic, and don't get me wrong that's a good, smart investment, and you depend less on every other aspect of building an organization because you're sitting back waiting for players from the academy to roll in, that comes off as a shortcut. You can't win with shortcuts. Hiring Ricciardi and DePodesta will ensure that no stone will be left unturned, and that there will be no shortcuts
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Trade: Sent to Kansas City in Joe Foy deal
After trade: 1,931 games played, .279/.345/.430 OPS+116
Analysis – Poor trade for the Mets. Instead of a five-time All-Star, the Mets got to play Don Hahn and Del Unser in center.
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