Comments on: News: Torrealba Re-Signs With Rockies

By: rd

rd — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:04:56 +0000

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.

By: kevin2elster21

kevin2elster21 — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:35:42 +0000

As I said, the agent looking like a fool is trying to save face.

By: kevin2elster21

kevin2elster21 — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:34:16 +0000

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.

By: kevin2elster21

kevin2elster21 — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:29:55 +0000

b/c they (Yorvit & agent) need to save face.

By: kevin2elster21

kevin2elster21 — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:29:19 +0000

I don’t think Minaya, nor many GMs take fan reaction into consideration.

By: Mister Koo

Mister Koo — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:57:30 +0000

Because he had to take less money.

By: cyclone

cyclone — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:55:15 +0000

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.

By: stickguy

stickguy — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:49:38 +0000

He got his deal with the Rockies, so why make a stink now?

By: adropofvenom

adropofvenom — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:46:18 +0000

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.

By: cver

cver — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:38:32 +0000

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.