Yesterday the Texas Rangers signed closer Joe Nathan to a two year $14.5M with a club option for a third year at $9M. Nathan, who turns 37 today, was once one of baseball's best closers from 2004 to 2009 he compiled 246 saves, made it to the All-Star game four times, and finish top five [...]
Last Friday the Mets outrighted Jason Pridie and Nick Evans to Triple-A. They could have accepted the assignment or elected free agency. They both chose free agency. A day later Pridie signed a minor league deal with the Oakland A’s. Pridie was just an OK player for the Mets, but he’s easily replaceable and won’t [...]
When you think of the New York Mets these days, two names come to mind: Jose Reyes and David Wright. Now there is a chance that both of them won’t be on the team come 2012. With the Mets pursuit of Reyes looking bleaker and bleaker, the talks of trading Wright will heat up. If [...]
There’s been a lot of talk lately about Jose Reyes not re-signing with the Mets. I still believe that he will, and if he doesn’t, I’ll be heartbroken. But if they don’t re-sign Reyes that frees up a lot of money for this organization. That would leave them with about $40M to fill out the [...]
Going into this offseason the Mets have couple of holes they’d like to take care of. Besides the giant gaping hole that is Jose Reyes, there are other problems, such as who is going to be the closer for next year’s team. The perfect successor for this role after Francisco Rodriguez, seemed to be Bobby Parnell. [...]
