Buzz: Mets Prefer Bedard to Santana
Despite the recent rumors connecting the team to Twins LHP Johan Santana, the Mets actually prefer Baltimore’s Erik 
Bedard, “Since he wouldn’t require the same lucrative extension as part of the deal,” writes Lisa Kennelly citing a Mets official in the Star-Ledger.
…they may also prefer to invest in time travel to help erase last September, but it doesn’t mean there is any chance of it happening…
…at any rate, from what i understand, among the rumored big-time pitchers, it was RHP Dan Haren who the Mets wanted most…the thing is, as i have written before, the O’s will want far more than the Mets can part with – just ask the A’s, who got six prospects for haren, who the Mets never really had a chance of getting…
…lastly, as i once mentioned, i sense there is some truth to the idea that the O’s are reluctant to deal with the Mets, for reasons associated with Kris Benson’s health…fact is, in addition to the benson issue, the Mets lack the talent to get bedard and so it only makes things that much more complicated…
In a recent report for FoxSports.com, Ken Rosenthal wrote that a trade between the O’s and M’s involving Bedard ‘is only one player away from competition.’
The deal is likely to include M’s OF Adam Jones, among other minor leaguers, explains Rosenthal.
According to Rosenthal, “The Mets made a strong run at Bedard at the general managers’ meetings in November.”
The Mets had offered Aaron Heilman, Carlos Gomez and Philip Humber to the O’s for Bedard during early December, according to ESPN.com and MLB.com, among others, but it was rejected.
