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According to Buster Olney at ESPN.com, free-agent RHP Mark Prior has agreed to sign with the Padres.
…Update…1:37 pm…
The deal is for one year, reports Ken Rosenthal at FOXSports.com.
Last week at ESPN.com, Olney explained that Prior may prefer San Diego because he currently lives there, which could be 
appealing, ‘in what figures to be a transitional year in his career.’
Prior was born in San Diego, and attended Southern Cal.
Meanwhile, later that day, also for ESPN.com, Jerry Crasnick added…
“San Diego is a natural fit for Prior, for lots of reasons other than the weather. Prior went to high school in the city and his family still lives there. Petco Park is a great pitchers’ park, and San Diego’s coaching and training staff has a reputation for working well with pitchers.”
can’t really blame him considering everyone pitches well there
yeah, I guess it doesn’t hurt that he’s also from there…Unreal. I guess there really is no such thing as a pitching prospect.
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love the sn
Can’t blame him, but we can blame Freddie Coupons for continuing to PENNY PINCH and lay dormant and for disappointing and making his fanbase even more miserable by following up a horrific collapse with a 2nd straight offseason of dormancy.
The Mets will not get one red cent from me this year.
Wow…
I’m sure the Wilpons will see this post, and sulk upon learning that they won’t get any money from you.
If you’re going to cry and whine, please cry and whine about different things. I really don’t want to read about the Wilpons being cheap in every single post you make.
Go be a Yankees fan or something. You’ll like it there.
Dude,
Every post is about the 2nd straight offseason of futility. I’m sick of it too. I laugh because it almost looks like a “cut and paste”.
firemetsmanagement,
The world is itching to know. Is it a “cut and paste” or does it come from the heart?
Don’t tell him to become a Yankees fan for then he will have nothing to cry about. They are in the playoffs every year and have an outstanding farm system and will probably be in the playoffs for the next ten years. Wait, they don’t win the WS every year, in fact they haven’t won it since 2000, so he will have something to cry about. :)
Who cares if he is from SD? An extra 2 million will make him not care. But Freddie Coupons obviously wasn’t interested.
As usual, Matt tries to justify more penny pinching by the Mets by telling us all how great of a fit he is in SD. Does Matt work for the Mets? This will be their spin too. They will not get a dime from me until they do something to make us forget about the horrific collapse- and signing Kyle Lohse is not going to do it. Assh*les
**yawn** troll
I would hate to be your therapist.. You are one miserable SOB.
dude,
WE are his therapists.
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Funny.
Firemetsmanagement’s daily routine:
“Ctrl + C”, “Ctrl + V”
“Ctrl + C”, “Ctrl + V”
In the words of Tickle Me Elmo….”oooh hahaha, this fun, this fun!!!”
Why does everyone reply to this guy if they hate his comments? Just ignore him and he”ll go away. He’s just trying to push your buttons, and it’s working like a charm.
I for one enjoy firemetmanagement’s posts. He keeps me grounded when I float away with WS dreams when I get played by the Mets PR.
Besides, sure he can get annoying, but there are worse people.
Points Guy, on the one hand we have firemetmanagement’s posts and on the hand we have the group that gives us: “We have the best record in baseball,” followed by “We have the best record in the NL,” followed by “We are in 1st place,” followed by they go into hiding for a few months. Now they are all back. Entertaining isn’t it? :)
Matt works for SNY. Therefore his nickname among many Mets fans, “Shill-rone.” Therefore this message being deleted within ~10 minutes.
Not signing Prior to me means more money to give Santana.
If they signed Prior then there’s no chance for Santana.
As of right now there is still a chance.
unless omar signs Loshe to a four year deal
“If they signed Prior, then there’s no chance for Santana”
You were kidding right??
No not at all.
The Mets do have a budget and throwing 2mil for a year at a pitcher pretty much indicates that they are not going to get Santana. It would be a stop gap measure.
If the Mets sign one of the free agent C list pitchers then they’ve given up on getting Santana.
wow if prior pans out SD will have one sick rotation of peavy/young/maddux/prior/wolf
Why would Prior and Santana be mutually exclusive? The two would total maybe 25 million and currently right around 100 million.
The Mets are raking in more money than they ever could have imagined. They still would be under the luxury tax.
Yeah and the mets still have a garbage rotation. This is metsblog.
Can you tell me why are you even a Mets fan. If I ever felt they way you do, I would go and find something else to do with my time.
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I don’t have a problem with fans whining. I whine myself. About Omar sometimes. What I do have a problem with is your always posting incorrect numbers when it comes to their spending and for gross exaggerations. Or jump to hasty conclusions like with Prior here.
You guys need to calm down. What happens if/when Prior ends up on the DL again by May? If that happened to us, you’d all scream bloody murder that we wasted money.
Plus, it seems that Prior did want to go anywhere else but SD anyway. I agree with a lot of our frustration but we can’t sign every potential starter out there just because you think we should.
Without Prior the only respectable pitcher stll on the market is livan Hernandez.
I think he would be a good fit because the mets struggled down the strech last year because their starting pitchers didn’t go deep enough into ballgames, and then their ballpen fell apart. Livan would solve this probllem.
Hey pair him with his brother Orlando and they might work well together like John and Bobby kennedy
give me a break. snap out of it. unless they fill the glavine hole with santana i’d rather have no one. its like askng for ps3 for christmas and getting a used ps2. save your money. livan is not the solution.
Livan is the anti-solution.
Anvil Hernandez would just be dead weight.
hahaha!!!! :-)
The thing is you can’t expect Pelfry/Humber/anyone else to pick up those 200 innings. Even if either of those guys had a breakout year, they’d max out around 150-170IP, based on prior season workloads. It would be reasonable to assume that Maine and Perez get to the 200ip benchmark, but it isn’t certain. Nor is Pedro. A major factor in the collapse was that the bullpen was overworked, becuase the starters were not going deep enough into games. Livan is a guy who can go out and give up 200ip at the league average, which is fine…Remember-he isn’t coming in to be the #1 or #2 starter…He’s a back end guy. Pelfrey and Humber would get some starts in to give Pedro and Duque a break.
I don’t even think Livan is league average anymore and the direction he’s been going in is the wrong one. It’s almost like he’s guaranteed to give you about 200 innings but crappy ones. I’d rather piece together 200 crappy innings from Humber, Pelfrey, Heilman, Mulvey or whoever else is down on the farm. At least you get pitchers with upside.
I’m just saying livan is a nice 5 starter who eats up innings and rests the ballpen
Don’t be misled. He averaged just 6.2 innings per start. Which means on average, he didn’t even get past the fist batter in the 7th inning.
I think you can get similar results from Humber and Pelfrey, not to mention Heilman if they were to give him a chance, And they have upside.
People wonder why the Mets never develop home grown pitchers and it’s because they give too few of them a chance on the major league level. Sure, not all of them are going to succeed. But some of them will.
The Aqua Teen HungerForce video game is only available for PS2.
I’d rather get a PS2 in Livan than be stuck with a PS1 in Humber or Pelfrey. I think Humber and Pelfrey can be good solid #3 or 4 pitchers but they could use more time in the minors working on secondary pitches and then they will be available when El Duque needs time on the DL. If we don’t sign anyone than we have no depth when one of our pitchers lands on the DL!
give heilman a chance to start….give pelfrey, humber,etc. an opportunity…maybe something will materialize with time,,,if you can get livan for a year or two that would be okay…but pleeeeez…not this four year stuff….
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ain’t happening. better chance of landing johan.
If we get Livan and Garcia, we’re looking at:
Pedro
Maine
Perez
Livan
El Duque
w/ Pelfrey and Humber filling in and Garcia pulling a Pedro in the 2nd half of the season
I like.
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You can’t really like that rotation can you? As some other poster would say, I just threw up a little in my mouth.
What did you do then, after you threw up in your mouth a little?
Just trying to get a handle on the consensus mode of behavior…
Well, I was going to hack the rest of it out. Then I pictured the rest of the people at my office giving me disgusted looks, I just swallowed it. Can’t wait for the next round of regurgitated vomit.
I’ve got my hopes on Blanton to be honest. i know he isnt a knock out pitcher, but a young pitching core of Maine, OP (hopefully they give him an extension soon), and Blanton would be a great rotation to build upon.
There could be a potentially huge FA crop of stud pitchers next season for that “ace” and who knows if Pelf/Humber/Mulvey, etc could mature into a decent #5.
But oh well, this is what makes the hot stove season a lot of fun/ridiculously frustrating! haha : )
You know what I think about Blanton?
I think Blanton will make us worse int eh long run. Don’t get me wrong, he might be the best pitcher in our rotation, but what he will do, for certain, is keep Omar and folks resting on their laurels, further hampering our chance of ever landing a numero uno.
We are not getting Santana…. plz can we drop it. We will sign either Livan or Garcia…bcuz we need to add an arm .. and Minaya cant get a good deal for a pitcher right now…Livan will be a fine #5 , I wouldnt complain…of course I would rather have a better pitcher come aboard… but at this point it is time to start being realistic…not pessimistic.
Hey, to change the subject, I thought people would be interested in seeing the new Jose Reyes figure created by McFarlane.
Check it out…
http://www.spawn.com/toys/product.aspx?product=3500
I was expecting Seth MacFarline’s Family Guy take on Reyes.
Oh well.
Do you think the twinkies would take a case of them for Santana?
his face looks liek Roger Cedeno….
should have had had half of his tongue sticking out doing a headfirst slide into first base
Omar sleeping at the wheel again. Shoulda, coulda, woulda had Prior if he showed he had any grapefruits.
Whatever you say Cap’N Crunch.
I was just wondering, does that b in your name stand for buffoon?
Them’s be fightin’ words.
Haha…like the guy from the Adam Sandler CD that goes on a date with the valedictorian and interviews with a prestigious ivy league school?
I prefer Crunch Berries. The point is, please stop killing Omar for “sleeping at the wheel”. He knows what he is doing. This team went from laughing stock to respectability in 2 years. Give him a chance.
I love that berry berry flavor in new berry berry kix, because it tastes so berry berry big
Who am I kidding? I’m getting old, I need Fiber One.
…and “met”-amucil?
Just replay any Mets game from last September – that’ll certainly make you crap yer pants.
prior was definately worth the risk considering the mets are definately not getting santana or bedard. knowing he only wanted a 1-year contract makes it pretty clear that he feels healthy and ready to go.
of course, he’ll probably blow out his elbow and pitch half a season as usual.
look on the bright side:
Need to stop crying about Prior. Yes, we have the financial ability to make it happen, but in reality, is it worth the risk for us? The Mets happen to be a pretty fiscally responsible team (not cheap like some posters like to say). They are hesitant to pay for a guy that won’t join the team til mid-season, a guy with a history of injury after injury, or a guy that will miss the upcoming season (see the Yanks signing of Jon Leiber….what a joke that was).
Why sign him when everyone is crying that they want a pitcher to give them 200 innings? Is Prior that guy? I can say with 100% certainty in a 99.9% confidence interval that Prior will not pitch 200 innings.
For firemetsmanagement, I will put it simply…in a Borat “not joke”.
-Mark Prior will pitch 200 innings this year NOT.
-Mark Prior will NOT pitch 200 innings this year.
-Mark Prior will pitch 200 innings this year pause not.
i’f rather take a $1m chance on prior as a 5th starter instead of spreading that cash among a few pitcher with no chance at being successful: lawrence, park, williams, lima, gonzalez
honestly, i’d buy the 2,532 citifield fan walk bricks it would cost to sign the guy. throw another million at him and a few of my friends are in to buy an additional 2,532 bricks with mets logo.
*disclosure: bricks $ goes to wilpon’s charity to be distributed by son, paris
seriously? i mean are you serious?
he has a son named paris? that’s almost as dumb as shea ’son of larry’ jones
One can only hope that Larry Jones’ son grows up to be a Mets fan. Although, Shea will be a distant memory by the time he’s old enough to realize.
Prior stinks. He hasn’t pitched since 2006 and ohly a few games that year. He won’t be ready to pitch in the majors until July at best.
Some of you guys that post “Omar is alseep” should wake yourselves up and do some reading once in a while. There, I said it.
I can understand everyone being mad if Omar didnt open up the wallet to sign prior… but he WANTED to go back to SD… home, family, high school, weather, good coaches… not EVERY player can/wants to play in NY.. we didnt have a chance.. simple as that…
next….
it’s funny how a couple million dollars can make certain conditions more tolerable, even likeable.
How many millions do the Wilpons have to give us to make rooting for this lousy organization tolerable?
Depends, I hear you’re worth more if you’re left handed.
Relax everyone, you know the big Lohse press conference will be coming in early Jan!
Prior signed for 1 million guaranteed, 3 million w/ incentives?!! This makes it even worse. You are telling me Fred couldn’t have ponied up 2 or 3 million guaranteed? Who cares if he is from SD- a few extra million will make him forget all about that. This is exactly the kind of move that a BIG MARKET team, desperate for an impact starter, would have made- but the Mets are not a big market team. The Yankees and Red Sox are, the Mets are not. Just sell the team Fred, and go buy the Pittsburgh Pirates. Following this lousy team has only gotten more disgusting and more embarrassing since the collapse- it started with Randolph and Minaya being retained (incredibly…how??), and continues in the offseason with penny pinching and lying dormant- same as last offseason. This team has not made a splash since Wagner, which was over 2 years ago. But schills and apologists and M*rons like yourselves are stupid enough to show up in droves and open up your wallets for this garbage- which is why the rest of us real fans have to suffer.
This team will not get a penny from me, and anybody who goes to a game and spends a penny should have their head examined.
“Ctrl + C”
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come on .. you really think he knows keyboard shortcuts?? I think you’re giving a little too much credit. Each one of those posts is painstakingly typed with 2 fingers
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I’m sure Omar “checked in” on this, just like he did with every other big player out there the past 2 years- but struck out and came up empty like he always does- whether it’s due to Freddie Coupons penny pinching or not…
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You idi*ts are probably already placing your deposits for tickets. When will you learn. Don’t spend a penny- turn the tables on Freddie Coupons. That is the only way he will spend money ever again- he knows he’s got all of you by the balls w/ the new stadium, etc. But don’t be stupid..don’t go.
Plenty of people will pay good money as long as Wright and Reyes are on the team.
Man, was it taht long ago where we all expected Prior and Wood to be a 1-2 punch for the Cubbies for the next two decades? Now they both sign 1 year incentive-laden deals in teh same offseason. Goes to show nothing is predictible in sports.
I guess they are banking on Collazo to be a starter…something the Pirates would do in lieu or spending $$$. This is not a big market team.
this was a smart move for SD and a smart move for prior
he gets a fresh start, in a place where he knows and likes to play. Plus they have the reputation of being good with pitchers.
If I was in his shoes, I would sign with the pads before the mets.
It is a very bad business model to just overpay everyone.
Add Prior to the list of quality pitchers hitting FA next year. Which is when the Mets should make a run for him.
I love how people are screaming bloody murder because the wilpons “wont spend a dime” and that omar is “sleeping.”
does anyone here ACTUALLY know what is going on? I highly doubt it. just cause the mets have money doesnt mean they can buy themselves a miracle (look at the yanks)
id be willing to bet that the wilpons and omar are doing A LOT more than we know/see/think.
I just hope the folks in the Mets front office are more productive at work today than I am.
i second that!!!!
This because I was really hoping the Mets would somehow pick him up (better than giving Loh-she a 4 year deal!), but stoney raises a great point. Prior is known for always getting injured, and I believe he won’t be available until later in the year (May/June?) – so there’s a huge chance he could end up as a huge bust for the Pods.
This is a no-risk deal for the Padres. They’ve already got great pitching, so if rior pitches well it’s gravy. Meanwhile the Mets would be counting on an unknown. Smart move for both sides.
That is so true, the Padres really scare me because this could be they break out. Peavy, Young, Wolf, Maddux, [maybe] Prior… along with trading for Jim Edmonds (people say he’s on his last legs but he sure knows how to torch us), picking up Tad at 2nd base. I wonder if Cameron will be back with the team.
They need more bats to contend… If they get into the playoffs they would be dangerous with their staff, but without some offense they won’t be able to get in.
The only one of those teams we need to worry about now is teh phillies, and I don’t understand how you think losing Rowand’s (career year) and signing Jenkins makes them better than the Mets. Please explain.
the phillies are always scary because of where they play for starters. i’m just crossing my fingers they just have a really horrible, awful year. yeah, that’s totally bitchy, but one losing season, yes?
at least they won as many playoff games as we did.
Don’t worry T, I have every faith in the Phillies going bust this year. It took a great run and a awful Mets collapse to get them the Division. Now they’ve lost Rowand, Iguchi, Bourne, Lieber, Garcia, Lohse, Geary, Alfonseca, and Mesa. You made a good point about their little league park, but they play half their games on the road. Frankly, I’m more concerned about the Braves.
This sux because I was really hoping the Mets would somehow pick him up (better than giving Loh-she a 4 year deal!), but stoney raises a great point. Prior is known for always getting injured, and I believe he won’t be available until later in the year (May/June?) – so there’s a huge chance he could end up as a huge bust for the Pods.
Where is the mor*n above who said that signing Prior would have taken the Mets out of the Santana equation? Prior signed for 1 million you bonehead.
But maybe in Freddie Coupons’ world giving 1 million to Prior actually WOULD HAVE put the nix on a potential Santana deal. More penny pinching from the Grinch
Is it possible to keep it all in one thread? You can be as negative as you want, but I keep scrolling down thinking I’ll see posts by a variety of people only to find out they’re almost all started by one person…
Just curious fmm, but did you ever get hugs as a child?
Just something I wanted to add. Martin Brodeur and Scott Stevens both resigned with the Devils for millions less than what they could have gotten from other teams. They resigned because they liked where they were and were comfortable with the team. They even took flak from the NHLPA for doing so. So signing for less money, to be where you want to be, is not unprecedented.
Omar better not sign loshe!!!!!!
levan Hernandez is the only pitcher left. I don’t think he would be that bad on the mets because the reason the mets lost last year was because their starters couldn’t pitch late into games and then the ballpen tired out.
Livan would definately solve that problem. Plus pair him up with Orlando and they might work well together like John and Bobby kennedy
Omar sure does a lot of inquiring.
There just aren’t any appealing options out there…Omar will do his due dilligence on available players, but none of them represent what we need. I don’t see how Carlos Silva makes the rotation substantially better than it is now. The lesser guys that are out there are still out there, because they are asking for the sun and the moon. Once those demands start to come down, somebody will sign, set the benchmark, and then the others will follow.
As for trades, Omar has essentially offered up just about everything we have got, but nobody was interested, and this was before the MIlledge deal. Its just a slow off-season, and the team won’t look much different..Fooling ourselves into thinking that Omar will pull a bunny out of his hat is just silly.
Ultimately, the 2008 team will have the same core that dominated in 2006, was 7 games up with 17 games left in 2007, and if not for the the slimmest of chances (it was a 1-500 shot) would have raised the NL East banner again last year. So yes, we are all down because of the way the season ended, but you can’t base the performance of the team on 17 games..its just over 10% of the schedule. And while we lost Glavine, who performed like a league average starter, the Braves lost Renteria and Andruw Jones, while the Phillies lost Aaron Rowand and still have a blackhole at 3rd base.
For all the doom and gloom fans on the board, its hard to fault you, because anyone who is a Met fan for long enough is conditioned to expect disappointment. However, 2008 will be a brighter than you think, as the young core begins to mature.
The thing is, what package has Omar actually offered Minnesota? There’s nothing we know for sure, but the Gomez AND FMart combo was never offered.
Besides offering underwhelming prospects, I believe Omar offered an underwhelming quantity as well.
I mean nobody knows for sure, but it seemed that he gave Minny a list of players they’d be willing to move.
I get the feeling the most Omar offered up was 3 + 1 low level. And we as fans know that that is not going to cut it.
Judging by the pics in the Daily News, if we give them Duaner Sanchez, can that count as 3 players in one?
Gotta wait until the sonogram comes back
Something tells me the sonogram would come back with Rice & Beans, paella, patanos, and chicken wings…..from a Miami hot spot of course
Maybe a baby or two, but they’d have busted shoulders as well.
Maybe they can get him a few bionic shoulders to go along with his bionic belly.
Dannyb,
Coming from a guy who was complaining about people making anti-semetic comments, this is pretty hypocritical of you.
PointsGuy: i tend to agree with you here (re: Omar), but you said it, as fans, we have NO IDEA what Omar offered. To base opinion of a guy on “your feeling” of what he offered is a little short-sighted.
I’ll do you the favor and -100 myself bc you probably wont like my post
I would never given out a -100!!!!!
No, I get your point. We can’t guess. And although my guess is based on very little, there isn’t much else to go about, so I just offer it up.
1. History and firemetsmanagement have told us that the Mets are cheap. In fact, they’ve lied to us in the past and pre-emptively defamed (I use the word lightly) players so that we as fans scream to not sign him.
2. knowing that Johan will command, and justifiably so, an unprecedented contract.
3. knowing that Omar didn’t want to trade both Gomez and FMart
leads me to conclude that Omar and folks offered up very little knowing that the Twinks would never accept, give the Mets fans the appearance that we’re trying desperately to land Johan, all the while raising ticket prices by up to 20%.
This is not new territory for the Wilpons. If you’ve been a Mets fan through the years, you’ve experienced it, unless you were blissfully blind to all of the ordeals.
This is my reasoning.
Roach,
Point taken. However, your point would be better if it wasn’t well chronicled that Duaner Sanchez (an outstanding pitcher for us in 2006) was heading out for Dominican food the night of the cab accident. I won’t apologize for the comment because it was neither racially charged nor serious. It was really in jest.
Never did I say Duaner Sanchez is damned for being Dominican….nor do I believe it. Our starting right fielder needed to apologize. Wonder why.
Fair enough…great points. And like i imagined, i do agree with you here
“It was really in jest.”
INJEST, yes Duaner’s been doing a lot of that.
Seriously, this doesn’t bode well for Duaner’s triumphant comeback.
Duaner’s into nuggets y’all. Duaner’s into nuggets y’all.
just to play devil’s advocate, those quotes are selected by Cerrone. True he didn’t write them, but . . .
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dayam!!!
“We”…. Who are you speaking about? I have always been a fan of the Mets. 29 years and counting.. I don’t get down on the team like you do sorry… If all i did was cry about every move the organization made that i did not agree i would be like you two.. a bitch.. I have followed the Mets through every season and off season.. I never once wet my pants or balled crying like this guy is… If you want to cry over every pitcher we don’t sign you are never going to stop… Please tell me again what I am.. You talk about my posts like you are familiar with them.. How come you never responded before? BS spin.. ok.. great take on the matter.
Ehhh
We all have our own ways of expressing our feelings. fmm has his methods, gotta respect it. Some people enjoy ignorant bliss, lemmings-like following; and others commiserate. All the same, but all so different.
Ultimately, the 2008 team will have the same core that dominated in 2006, was 7 games up with 17 games left in 2007, and if not for the the slimmest of chances (it was a 1-500 shot) would have raised the NL East banner again last year.
DOMINATED SH*T. THEY PLAYED UNDER .500 FOR 4 THE LAST 4 MONTHS OF THE SEASON.
Had the Phils gotten their act together earlier, the Mets would’ve been the ones getting dominated.
So yes, we are all down because of the way the season ended, but you can’t base the performance of the team on 17 games..its just over 10% of the schedule.
4 MONTHS
Keep ignoring what really happened last season, lots of you are in for another rude awakening. At least I’ll get some laffs out of it
How about you actually read what my quote says before saying I’m ignoring everything
He said they dominated in 2006. They did.