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During an appearance on WFAN, beat-reporter 
Sweeny Murti said, “There is news floating around that the Mets are close on Erik Bedard.”
…Update…8:31 pm…
…from what i can gather, Omar Minaya has been dumping a ton of rhetoric around, back-peddling on his need to acquire a top-line starting pitcher, while suggesting that he may not be in the best position to make such a trade…
…in fact, a few people close to the team have suggested that when minaya said last week that trading Lastings Milledge wouldn’t hurt his chances of making a trade for pitcher, what he really meant was that with or without milledge he could not make a trade for a pitcher because he just doesn’t have the horses either way…
…frankly, i’m skeptical of everything, be it positive or negative…
…Update…8:45 pm…
…earlier, i was sent on a wild-goose chase suggesting that the Mets could be working with the O’s on a deal involving Miguel Tejada, paying his way to a third team, while acquiring bedard, but i don’t sense there is any thing to that…
best news i’ve heard all day. do whatever it takes minaya
I couldn’t agree more!! WhatEVER it takes to land Bedard is fine with me - I would try Gomez, Heilman, Humber, and another minor leaguer or two…
i love a rumor with a lot of juice
This could be a good thing for the mets to get into.
They may have to give up less to acquire him and if a 3rd team gets involved, it could make it a bit better to match up needs.
Who is a good fit for tejada?
Angels? They need a big bat and a SS and they also have the prospects.
But do the Mets want prospects?
i think the O’s would be the ones getting the prospects. They’d be used to buttress the Mets’ offer I would presume.
very interesting…
that basically how the Braves ended up with Mike Hampton while the Marlins payed 3 years of his salary. Though in that case it was the Marlins ‘buying’ prospects, not a top starter.
Its not my money, so go get it done Omar.
What???? That’s a little scary! Maybe they move Delgado and eat his contract??? I can’t stomach the thought of anything worse than that happening to this Mets infield for pitching.
or maybe reyes is involved…i suggested something like this the other day…perhaps a reyes, gomez, heilman and humber for bedard and tejada.
Let us hope that doesn’t mean they really are considering trading Reyes for Santana… but perhaps they may attempt a 3 way deal with the Twins and will have Santana and Bedard?
do whatever it takes to get bedard…that’s who i’ve wanted anyway…Santana and haren are apparently not fits in trades for the metropolitans…you gotta get bedard. If not start talking to the giants about cain or lincecum
Interesting, very very interesting.
Didnt see this one coming.
If we have Bedard, Tejada, and Santana, could we live without Reyes? Maybe the Twins will take Tajada + 15 others……
can we throw in delado and get millar too…please? I just can’t root for the guy, i’m just rooting for laundry with him.
Maybe we spin off Tejada to the Angels for some pitching?
I had a thought a week ago or so.
Trade Reyes straight up for Santana
Then trade Mulvey, Humber, Gotay, Perez and Gomez for Bedard
and Tejada.
Maybe there is something to it after all
how about Reyes for J. Santana
and
Heilman, Humber, J. Maine, F. Martinez, Gotay for Bedard & Tejada
and
Pelfrey & David Wright for Miguel Cabrera
hah!
One word… why?
Since when did piff make sense?
I dont know but it does here…
Why not throw Tejada at second and eat Castillo’s contract, or send him away?
tejada is only in it to then ship him off to boston because boston will be sending pedroia as part of the trade for santana and then they’ll move lugo to second and they still keep ellsbury and bucholtz.
it will be pedroia, lester and another prospect for santana and they’ll get tejada from the mets as part of the 3 way for bedard.
Trade Pedroia and keep Lugo… you wouldn’t happen to know the drug commonly used by The Beatles would you?
no, that won’t happen.
If it’s Bedard and Tejada, then Reyes is definitely involved, unless it’s a package like Gomez and Maine. (Tejada moves to first base, and we send Delgado to the AL for some prospects.)
Under either scenario, I’d pass. Bedard doesn’t have the track record that Santana does (duh), and he’s not as young (or cheap) as Haren.
Don’t you get it. if its involving Tejada that is worse for us and we shouldnt have to give up as much, because of his high salary. So that means Reyes isn’t involved.
I said before that taking back some bad contracts is the best way for the Mets to get someone like Bedard.
If the Mets supposedly have all this $$ available, but no one to spend it on, but a shortage of prospects to trade, then the smart play is to trade money.
You do that by eating big contracts, either attached to a good 9but overpriced) player, or getting the guy you want + the bad deals.
Not sure what to do with Tejada. Trade for what you can get, eating 1/2 the salary? Again, not a bad idea, since you are effectively trading $$ for players.
WOnder what that deal would cost?
Hey, dump Dlegado on them, and put Tejada at 1st!
I heard that interview on the way home. Sweeny started to say that, and instead of asking more about it, Fat Mike (Francessa) just cut him off and went on to another topic. That’s typical of Fat Mike - he talks over everyone.
Don’t jump on th eguy that wants to dump Castillo.
Why can’t he be traded? If Tejada can play second, go for it!
There is no way the Mets both take on Tejada’s salary and trade Delgado/eat most of his contract
i can see this winter meeting ending without any real moves being made… or the acquisition of lower tier pitching… a lot of hype for nothing
Wow, the update that he posted just completely negated what he orignially posted. Now they don’t have the horses for a deal?!? What the hell is going on over there
I’ve felt for some time that this was the Mets best thing to fall back on. They have a HUGE revenue stream and can absorb contracts like the other heavy hitters. Now is the time to do it. So the prospects are a bit on the weak side, take on all of Tejada’s money plus throw in some of our best prospects and now we can start talking. I wouldn’t mind trying Tejada out at 1st and moving Delgado for some relief pitching.
No, no, no — what this means is that to get Bedard, the O’s want to dump salary by making you take Tejada and all his money. So the O’s send the Bedard to the Mets, Tejada to the Angels, the Angels send decent prospects to the O’s, the Mets send a lesser package to the O’s and the Mets pick up a bunch of the Tejada money. The O’s get out from under the money, the Angels get the bat they want at a lower cost, and the Mets get a good pitcher without having to give up all of their prospects.
If the rumor is at all real, this is likely what it is.
That would be the smartest thing out there. The Mets have more money than prospects; they need to take $ back in swaps.
What about the following:
LAA gives: Brandon Wood (SS/3B), Jeff Mathis (C), Erwin Santana (P), Kelvim Escobar (P)
LAA gets: Miguel Tejada (SS-Bal); John Maine (P-Mets)
BAL gives: Miguel Tejada (SS); Eric Bedard (P)
BAL gets: Brandon Wood (SS/3B - LAA), Jeff Mathis (C - LAA), Erwin Santana (P - LAA), Fernando Martinez (OF-NYM), Mike Pelfrey (P-NYM) plus relief from big salaries
NYM gives: John Maine (P), Fernando Martinez (OF), Mike Pelfrey (P), lots of $ to LAA via swapping Maine for Escobar
NYM gets: Kelvim Escobar (P-LAA), Eric Bedard (P-BAL).
Angels give up 1 ML pitcher, and 2 top prospects, for Tejada, plus cut their salaries & get young by taking Maine for Escobar.
Baltimore gets 1 proven young pitc