Buzz: Mets Targeting A’s Again
In an article for Newsday, Mets beat writer David Lennon writes, that while everyone is focused on the Yankees and Johan Santana, the Mets are quietly and actively pursuing A’s pitchers Dan Haren and Joe Blanton.
According to Lennon:
“Plenty of teams also will be after Haren if Beane chooses to move him. But it is Blanton, according to a person familiar with the Mets’ thinking, who should be easier to get. The A’s aren’t thrilled about the possibility of going to arbitration with Blanton, and at the moment, they have no plans to sign him to a long-term deal.”
…it seems that the Mets and A’s rumors will never end until omar deals Aaron Heilman and/or Lastings Milledge to oakland for one of these two pitchers…if it is true that the yankees are actually going to get santana, haren and blanton would be a good consolation prize, but at what cost…
