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The Colorado Rockies re-signed catcher Yorvit Torrealba yesterday for two years and a guaranteed $7.25 million.
In Newsday, David Lennon writes that Torrealba’s agent, Melvin Roman, may take legal action against the Mets for what he says was a fraudulent claim by the team when they stated that Torrealba had failed a physical.
…let sleeping dogs lie, roman…the fact that the Mets cut-off their discussions with torrealba so abruptly definitely raises a red flag…
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Wow, you obviously aren’t a lawyer. If the Mets said or insinuated something that wasn’t true about the guy that affected his negotiating position and cost him millions, he has every right to pursue any course he has available. Sleeping dogs don’t sleep when you lose 8 million dollars.
Except I haven’t seen ANYWHERE where the Mets said or insinuated anything about Torrealba failing a physical. Most articles about the subject were complete speculation on that part. Even the quote from the Post below says that his agent claims the Mets said that, but I haven’t seen any quotes to back it up.
Probably more the agent blowing up smoke because he’s pissed he lost out on commission of 8 million dollars.
I’m pretty sure the mets went out of their way to say that he did not fail his physical, but wouldn’t give a specific reason why the deal wasn’t consumated.
He may know something you don’t know. Just sounds like the Mets certainly knew something was wrong with Torrealba. I’m just glad it didn”t happen and we traded Mota away.
Yeah, it sounds like we put two dogs to sleep at once. No kudos to Omar though, because he was the one who brought those dogs in our hood in the first place.
sent this in to metsblog this morning, but dont see it posted yet, so here goes…
According to Roman, “We agreed to the terms, pending on him passing the physical and then according to them, he didn’t pass the physical.” But the agent said though the Mets claimed Torrealba had a partially torn shoulder, two Rockies doctors as well as orthopedic surgeon James Andrews said Torrealba is healthy.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/11302007/sports/mets/mets_focus_on_blanton__haren_288397.htm
(a torn shoulder is a big deal to me… sounds like Mets were just keeping concerns quiet until he could sign another deal…yorvit should be thanking them!)
Does anyone think maybe Minaya balked at fan response to the Torrealba deal when they were working out the contract?? It seems to fit Torrealba’s response and how little we know about why the seeminly done deal fell through…just a theory.
I don’t think Minaya, nor many GMs take fan reaction into consideration.
Interesting. Mets said he had a 50% tear of the rotator cuff. This is the first time I’ve seen a substantive explanation for the collapsed deal. So either the Mets are lying or Torrealba’s agent is just blowing hot air and hasn’t a leg to stand on. I guess it’s always possible that whoever diagnosed the 50% tear is just incompetent or Lennon is misreporting, but I doubt it. A 50% tear would explain Torrealba’s horrible CS% this year.
This one’s weird – I don’t think Minaya suddenly does an about face on Torrealba without legitimate cause. They saw something – maybe they got bogus info – but they saw something.
That being said, it’d probably be wise for Torrealba to not rattle the cage, in case the reason for the Mets went about face involves the Mitchell Investigation.
I’m astounded by this development. I’ve been combing the net for the last two weeks. Have any of you even now, besides from this article, heard any direct public statements from the Mets (or unofficial reports even before this) that he failed his physical. It’s all becoming a blur now, but I seem to recall more that the Mets publicly were being rather quiet about this and not saying that he failed. Well, maybe the complaint is that the Mets say he failed the physical to the Torrealba camp and reneged on those grounds and Roman disagrees. Either it’s a half-tear or it isn’t, I guess.
He got his deal with the Rockies, so why make a stink now?
Because he had to take less money.
b/c they (Yorvit & agent) need to save face.
I don’t recall the Mets ever saying anything public about Torrealba after the deal fell through other then them saying that they had cut off negotiations with him, and they would not reopen them. All the speculation about Torrealba’s shoulder or failing the physical was speculation on the part of sportswriters.
Let me clue you guys in on contracts 101 – a contract is not completed until it is done. Ok, you cannot enforce conditional parts of a contract.
For example, let’s say we’re negotiating what comes with the sale of a house. We already agree that the pool comes with the house, but have yet to close on said house. But then I renege and do not want to include the pool. You can’t force me to include the pool, just cause we previously agreed to it.
We offered contract pending a physical, we can break off that contract at any time for any reason, so long as the contract is not complete, which it wasn’t. This is American jurisprudence speaking, not MLB collective bargaining speaking.
That’s K101.
As I said, the agent looking like a fool is trying to save face.