Also, Atlanta doesn’t lose two draft picks. They lose one. A first rounder. MLB allocates a sandwich pick between round 1 and 2 for us as bonus compensation.

Offering arbitration is a no brainer.

At the end of the day, Minaya is quite similar to a lot of other mid-to-top GMs in baseball and there are only a few that are routinely gold year-in, year-out. Minaya’s ’06 was stellar, and obviously his ’07 was shaky. Same could be said for a guy like Beane, who, for all the moneyball praise, got very little in return for Hudson. Schurholtz who has made some questionable trades and signings the past two years, and even Theo the great, who was being beaten by Boston fans after ’06 for trading for Crisp, giving away Arroyo for a 4th outfielder, giving a way a good middle reliever for a backup catcher whose only use is to receive Wakefield, rushing Craig Hansen because he failed to address the bullpen, and trading two top prospects for Beckett who looked very mediocre in ’06. But hey, a lot changes in a year when you win despite your mistakes and one of your pitchers turns his career around again. If the Mets don’t sleepwalk through a majority of the ’07 season, we could be singing a different tune as well.

We get two picks should Glavine sign with the Braves. It’s a no brainer.