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The Mets offered RHP Aaron Heilman to the Rockies on Wednesday in exchange for LHP Brian Fuentes, reports Ken Rosenthal at FoxSports.com.
However, the Rockies also asked for RHP Scott Schoeneweis, explains Rosenthal, at which point ‘talks 
disintegrated.’
In 208 relief appearances for the Rockies during the last three seasons, the 32–year-old Fuentes has a 3.68 ERA including 81 saves while averaging over one strike out per inning.
Interestingly, Fuentes had a 4.50 ERA while pitching away from Coors Field last year, yet a 1.72 ERA while in Coors Field.
Fuentes is eligible for arbitration this off-season, and can be a free agent after next year.
Meanwhile, Heilman will be arbitration-eligible for the first time this winter, and can be a free agent after 2010.
Glad it did not go through. Omar keeps going for age, keep the youth damnit! Still baffeled over Lastings trade.
With you 100%. Why get rid of youth? Especially if maybe –MAYBE — Heilman could be considered for the rotation.
“Talks disingegrated”????? Why wouldn’t we be dying to dump Show for a bag of balls, let alone a guy who could be really good or at least decent? What am I missing here?
Oh I see, they’d have to give up both players. Well, maybe not. Tough to say. I’d have to look it over more, but certainly Show being thrown in should be a plus for the Mets not a minus.
Talent wise its not a fair 2 for 1, but if the Rockies wanted the Mets to pay some of Schoe’s salary too, then I would think the talks would stop right there.
I cant really think of anyone that is reasonable to ask for from the Rockies as a 2 for 2 deal.
Maybe in ST when Heilman isnt going to be a starter, and Dauner looks like a good bet to be a solid reliever, and Joe Smith or Carlos Muniz is looking good enough to make the team, then I might look to pull off that trade with the Rockies taking Schoe’s salary while sending a low level prospect back as well.
Fuentes, Dauner, Wagner, would be a fun 7-8-9 combo to watch all year.
What is with these teams asking for anything and everything, lol
I mean, I’m sure plenty will argue about Heilman being more valuable than Fuentes….and whatever, you can debate away…..but to ask for another reliever too……wtf is with people!?
It seems like other GMs realize Omar’s over a barrel, with the debacle of last year and the new stadium coming next year, so they’re asking for more than market value knowing that he can’t sit back and do nothing…
I’m not sure why there seems to be a rush to trade Heilman, though…never understood why he’s undervalued by his own organization. He’s one of the better RH 7+ inning guys out there…and he’d probably be a comparably good a starter to half the guys out there getting 4/40. Could he be worse than Kyle Lohse, for god sakes?
Because of intense media pressure and the resulting sensitivity to this pressure by the Mets Ownership it appears that the Mets have lost sight of the fact that even with the meltdown they came extremely close to being in the post season last season. They really need only moderate improvement at some spots and do not have to make a back page splash that leaves the franchise impotent in the future.
WHAT!!! if they want schoeneweis give him up! i would trade him for a bag of balls! come on.
Omar is inept….
Not surprised though. Look at who we would be getting.
Yea because that has anything to do with it…
GIVE IT A REST
Maybe they got the rumor backwards…they offered Schoeneweis but when the Rockies asked for Heilman the trade disintegrated…that makes more sense.
Yeah, I don’t see how if you are willing to trade Heilman that Schoenweis would be the straw that broke the camel’s back.
and visa versa i dont see how you wouldnt be happy getting heilman unless you can get old overpaid schoenweiss also
has to be
I don’t really knnow Fuentes but what would be the point in trading relievers? Fuentes is better than Heilman? I can’t really see that. My guess is that the trade came from the Rockies and it was the METS who said FU. Then said maybe if you take Show also.
Fuentes has a bit more of resume than Heilman. He has been a closer and was good enough to make the All-Star team. I’ve always liked Fuentes, but his performance in the postseason didn’t do much for his reputation.
he didn’t happen to give up a go ahead hr did he?
Huh? Isn’t Fuentes an all star?
Lots of guys are All-Stars. Doesn’t mean they’re worth trading a guy like Heilman for.
Huh? I would keep Heilman but give Show away for a bag of balls. Then use the savings to sign Mahay.
I don’t want to hear any Willie bashers next year whine about him bringing in Show.
Someone hand Willie a kleenex, he’s gonna need it with Showenqeiss.
stop shopping aaron and put him back in the rotation already
DO IT!! get the rockies to throw in a prospects and send those two bums out of here!
Sounds like another bogus report from an” Expert”.
1) hes a lefty and are we gonna back-up our lefty closer
w/ a lefty 8yh inn. guy? never seen that before.
2)why woild you not send Scotty gopher-Ball anywhere/
for anything the Min. someones asks?
3) Would Daisy have been coming along as well?
—Cause then your’e talkin’!!—
I wouldn’t see the point in taking our best rightie out of the pen and trading him for another rightie and giving up a leftie. Also, why would you lose that potential flexibility of giving Heilman a shot in the rotation? I hope that the facts were messed up in this trade.
Fuentes is lefty
What would your user name be if Perez and/or Heilman are traded?
Um, MinayaisInept most likely.
ahem…. I think you mean “flexibilitie”
I think you mean “flexibilitie.”
Trade would make no sense. Just trading one reliever for another. Plus I thought they wanted to try Heilman in the rotation, perhaps.
Minaya is an id*t.
This one is puzzling… I agree it must’ve been the Rox offering Fuentes.
I would actually like to get our hands on Fuentes– he has nasty stuff…. Heilman? No way– he has value for a bigger deal, if you trade him at all. How about Ruben Gotay for Fuentes?
1. Why are we interested in this Fuentes guy anyway — pitches better at Coors than on the road?? What is that all about?
2. Is there anyone in MLB that we have not offered Heilman for this offseason? Jeez, the guy gets frustrated for years as the mets mgt keeps him in the pen, and now he is being offered all over baseball for garbage. he must feel great right about now.
exactamundo
schoeneweis is another steroid user whom we could have gotten rid of. what is omar thinking? since when was heilman such a hot commodity?
fuentes has been all star the last 3 years and he wasn’t voted in by fans. among our pitching staff, we didn’t have a single all star
what in the world is going on?
Heilman may have this perceived futility by Mets fans because of sporadic ineffectiveness, but unless we get something in return, his absence would leave a HUGE hole.
Let alone the fact that teams (other than the Mets) value him as a starter. He’s a very versatile asset
This rumor, IF true, really shakes my increasingly weak faith in Omar. Why offer a one-for-one swap of relievers with Heilman, when Heilman can be used as part of a package to get a starting pitcher?
Unless of course Omar was trying to package Fuentes for someone else. But that’s what I thought he was trying to do with the Milledge for Schneider/Church trade, and there’s no indication of that happening.
Mets killed Heilman’s value the past few year- same way Willie and Omar destroyed the value of Milledge, Gomez, Pelfrey, Humber (obviously the guy has no value when you sent out Brian Lawrence and Dave Williams to start instead of him).
Fire met management.
Huh??!!–WRONG!!!–He’s got value he didnt 2 yrs. ago
BECAUSE hes been pitchin’ out of the pen!!
Short memory but, this guy was a BUST as a prospect
when left to start!
You’re a tool..Come up with a new line..same old stuff doesn’t work
Carlos Gomez’s value is so destroyed he’s on the must have list for Johan Santana.
i thought you gave up on the Mets you pathetic sorry excuse for a fan. You can’t even stand up to your own words. Get lost troll.
Ummm……why?
Heilman was one of the bright spots of the bullpen last year. I can’t understand this at all–as others point out, Schoenweis has been disappointing to say the least.
It is becoming clear that Omar is eliminating “attitudes”. Omar sees retaining Willie as a mandate to get rid of those who had the onions to speak up or second guess or show disappointment.
This is becoming more like a staffing issue at the local ladies salon more than a MLB team!
Dump Omar and his little friend, Willie the Mute.
Come on…really?
You never hear about Heilman’s attitude…he marches out there when asked and probably plays hurt. That’s ridiculous