that might be the worst thing i’ve ever heard. I’d rather have A-Rod for 30 mil. Spending $14 mil a year for 5 years on a 40+ CATCHER, when a durable starter AND bullpen is CLEARLY a need, while having your OWN catcher almost BEG to be back on the team….well that’s just not the moves of a smart, big market GM…those are the moves of assinine GMs, like in Baltimore or Tampa

I think I am the only one on this blog who thinks that Posada would be a terrible acquisition. He just came off a career year and we will be paying him big time for that. His Power is mostly due to the short porch in RF at Yankee stadium. His play at his position is average at best and has been described as brutal on occassion with the passed balls that he is afflicted with. He is a career .277 hitter.

I just can’t see the logic in getting this guy and at this stage of his career. If he were the starting catcher for a team in our division that we were concerned with (Phillies or Braves) then I could see the alternative reason of fighting for him as it would injure one of those teams by his leaving. But last I checked, the Yankees are in the AL not NL.

Please tell me this is all a smoke screen. The problem with the METs is not the production from the catching position. It is quality top of the rotation starting pitching followed by a lack of length in our outings by the starters followed by a poor middle relief core of Mota and Shoe.

Targets in the order of preference should be:
1) Discover and get a true ace to lead the squad
2) If you can’t get the ace, retool by getting an innings eating successful pitcher to augment the middle of the rotation (Blanton type)
3) Dump Mota and bring back a closer in waiting to assist in back end of pen with Heilman who is very good and hopefully a Sanchez that is ready to compete and produces to a level that is 90 % or closer to what he was in 2006

I am sick and tired of omar going to the Yankees for leadership. It makes me sick.

Please note, people, that Rosenthal is just speculating. He’s saying the move is “expected” but by whom? He’s not saying he has inside info that it’s going to happen.

If Omar did offer Posada a monster contract then he should be committed to Bellevue. Period. Put him in a straightjacket.

There’s no way a catcher that old deserves a monster contract from a NL team.

Having said that, I listened to Carlin/Jones on the FAN this morning and Jones said that Posada was the MVP of the Yankees team this season and that the Yankee players would agree with her. That’s just her opinion, but seeing how she spends a lot of time with the team and she doesn’t seem to have an agenda, I don’t doubt here opinion.

She also said A-Rod “sucks the life out of a room” when in the clubhouse because everything is always about him.

Ultimately, Rosenthal writes, “The best guess is that Posada will remain with the Yankees, increasing his Hall of Fame chances rather than entering the unknown in the National League.”

I dont know what’s a bigger joke; signing Posada for five-years, $70 million or that anyone thinks Posada is a
Hall of Fame catcher.

posada’s a type A FA, right? so losing him would cost us our first round pick in next years draft.

mortgaging our future for an aging catcher? i don’t get it. a lo duca/castro platoon would be cost-effective and perfectly fine productivity-wise. ive always liked lo duca and i enjoy knowing someone on the mets isnt afraid to speak their mind. losing him would be a big loss to the personality and character of this team.

I really don’t care how high the payroll goes. But I do care about that if the dollars spent in some places (catcher or 3b (see arod)for example) affect the teams aggressiveness in going after free agents the team actually needs.

I have been a lifelong Knick fan (unfortunately). They have spent the money. They have spent bucketloads of money. I used to simply buy into the hype each year that the talent assembled for those dollars was well spent. But over the past 7 - 8 years….I have come to realize that it is not simply procuring the best talent that wins, or spending big money on that talent. It is finding all the right pieces to fill needs. The knicks are a text book example of how to spend money unintelligently.

I think a Posada signing or to a lesser extent the AROD signing would be much the same. The positions of need are not 3b, shortstop or Catcher. They are starting pitching and relief pitching. THe METS hit enough last year. Just did not pitch well enough down the stretch.

i advocate spending the resources on the needs of the team. Not overpaying for average guys that slot in the area of our needs like say paying Jason Jennings 4yrs and 40 m. I advocate going after and targeting premier players at positions of need (through trade if necessary).

what really scares me about this is that rosenthal usually has a pretty good idea of what’s going on with this team.

I’m hoping this is just a story put out there by the organization to lower the asking price for LoDuca, or for leverage in a potential trade.

I heard something on mlb radio this weekend and I thought I would throw it out there. What do you think it would take to get Ben Sheets off of the Brewers. I do know he is injury prone but if/when he gets healthy, he is our ace. It would be less expensive than Santana and we might not have to compete with the Yanks to get him. Also, I like Bedard as well but wonder what the Orioles would want. I don’t think we have the minor league talent that the Rays or giants are looking for to get Kazmir or Lincecolm.

There is no reason to get Posada for that much. The only upside is that he would probably be playing 1B after next year. But that will still have us looking for a catcher next year.

NO POSADA!

Yanker anteaters have no place on this team.

unless posada is a cross between winston churchill and vince vaughn and produces like johnny bench i say pass too..

im all for running the price up on the yankees though..

If Omar really did offer Posada a huge $ LT contract, then sign me up for the Fire Omar campaign!

Not only would it be a terrible move, it would prove that he really has no idea what he is doing, and is going to fall back on just overpaying for whatever big name is out there (never mind how old they are).

last year was an outlier year for Posada, and at age 36 and a catcher, the odds are pretty low that he can replicate it.

I’m not really a Loduca fan (I personally think you can stick the fork in him, since he’s done), but Paulie and Castro (with Paulie on a 1+1 deal) would be better than this.

Torrealba isn’t exciting. I would take a flyer on Barrett first.

Even better, try for a trade. Paulino? Not sure if he is the answer, but at least he is young and has some upside. Or how about Shoppach? He is at the right age to really go on a tear, and he is blocked.

In any case, is Omar really working all the creative angles to make the team better? Or just panicing and firing up the old checkbook?

And forget about all the nonsense about him being a calming influence, blah blah blah. If he is moving around behind the plate like the old man he is, who’s going to listen to him?

If Omar really thought they needed someone like that, he should have fired Willie and brought in a new manager and coaches.

I would rather have A Rod than Posada (expecially if one of them or DW is going to be at first soon).

God, I hope this is just smoke screen. It was bad enough watching Piazza the last couple of years of his contract, and I liked him. Posada is a Yankee through and through and I never liked him. If the Mets actually go through with this deal, they may as well rename themselves The New York Yankees - Flushing Branch.

A five year $70M deal for a 37 year-old catcher makes NO SENSE whatsoever. I have faith that Omar is smarter than that; I just hope someone like Jeffy Wilpon isn’t behind the scenes pushing the deal.