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In a post to his blog for ESPN.com, Buster Olney believes that Pirates 1B Xavier Nady would be a good fit for the Mets or Indians, “but the new Pittsburgh management is, for now, devoted to the idea of trying to win in 2008.”
…from what i understand, if the Pirates ever decide to trade nady, it will be for high-quality, young, minor leaguers or zero-to-three guys who they can control…you know the drill…
According to Olney, if the Mets are looking for a short-term solution at first base, “they could talk to Cincinnati about a deal for Scott Hatteberg, who doesn’t hit for much power but does get on base consistently.”
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Nady would be a great fit, but he’s absolutely raking right now, and the price would be exorbitant: think Niese + Carp + One More. The Bucs would want FMart, of course, but he’d be a prospect too far.
What if they threw Ian Snell into the deal?
X-Man,
Stop trying to talk your way back to NY.
Hey man, I told Duaner to order room service, but did he listen? Nooooo. He had to go out and look for White Castle.
I just want to be back in NY, is that so wrong?
Haha X-Man. If you come back, don’t kick his ass. It’s his fault you’re not on the team anymore.
Niese + Carp + one more is not bad… as long as that “one more” isn’t FMart…. Unless of course the Mets intend to move heaven and earth to sign a FA 1B for next year (Teixeira?) and move Nady back to the OF.
For Nady? Are you serious? Nady is not even as good as Church and you want to trade 2 decent prospects for a backup 1B and OF?
there’s absolutely NO WAY omar trades FMart for a guy like Nady….say what you want about Omar, but he’s no Dan Duquette.
i am not giving up niese in any deal….give em pelfrey and or heilman
um….
or Duaner Sanchez,
or we can sign Roberto Hernandez and trade him along with Oliver Perez for Nady.
All Great Ideas!
I would love Nady to return. However, I am not sold the Mets can pull the trigger with an anemic farm system. And I wouldn’t want to trade the remaining good prospects. If the Pirates want their selection of mediocre talent, then by all means give them mediocre talent (i.e., heilman).
…and he’s got great hair!
Remember once every 90 days…and he too can notice a difference. lol
It will never get old. It’s kind of like Borat’s “Not Jokes” in the movie.
Carlos Delgado is a great hitter pause not.
See? You laughed.
Seriously though. Nady would be a perfect fit for this team. We need to find out the severity of Alou’s injury before proceeding (no pun intended Guiseppe). If it’s months, then we need a player like Nady. If it’s a week, let’s see how it goes with Alou in the lineup.
Off topic, but anyone know when today’s game would be rescheduled for it/when it is rained out?
My guess would be a double header tomorrow. This is the only time the Pirates are at Shea and they already have a day game scheduled for Thursday and it’s a get away day.
True… that’s too bad, this would have been my first Santana start as a Met.
Yeah, I was planning on going too but it doesn’t look very good right now.
That would be sweet.
If so, I am taking the day off!!!!!
Nothing like a double bill SWEEP!!!!!!!!
I could use the wins.
Mets are currently 3-2 at games I have gone to, (thanks in part to two wins in which Figgy started).
Speaking of Figgy…. got to love this guy. For all the kudos for Lohse who has had a great start for St. Louis, where would we be with out Figgy?!
You know, that isn’t a bad idea at all. Would tix to today’s game work for both games?
I was thinkin about that yesterday too with the start that Lohse has gotten off to.
I hope Pelfrey has a good start against Pitt. as of now, I would keep Figgy in the rotation and send Pelfrey down when Pedro comes back. it is too early to start thinkign of what happens when Pedro comes back because so much can happen between now and then. my hope is that Pelfrey can get it together and Figgy can move ot the ‘pen and we can just get rid of Sosa.
I like Nady as a player, but always thought he was overrated. Let’s see how we do the next few weeks and see how serious Alou’s foot/ankle is. There will always be OFs available later on, and some do play 1B, too.
Agreed over-rated
yeah…Nady for Heilman
and, umm…Joe Smith for Carlos Pena
and, Grady Sizemore for Moises Alou
oh yeah. and Luis Castillo for Chase Utley, but the phils must promise to sign him to a 10yr 500MM contract and pay it all AND pay all of Castillo’s salary….get it done Omar or else you are the worst GM ever.
another classic example of a team wanting too much for Nady so he will finish the year with the Pirates.
in reality, Nady would be a bench/role player for the Mets. they will not just sit on delgado’s salary for the rest of the year. you just don’t give up much for a player like Nady. so you make a respectable offer and if it is declined, you move on.
What about giving the pirates one of the Evans/Murphy/Carp set and Pagan, all are young promising hitters tearing up AA. Obviously all three aren’t going to play for the mets and more likely 1 or none of them will. The pirates get 2 0-3 service time players. Pagan would be expendable with because someone would have to go to make room for Nady.
I just don’t think the Pirates are going to deal him to us no matter what. I doubt they like the idea of throwing in Perez a couple years ago, and now you are going to ask for Nady back. “Um we would like to thank you for throwing in Perez in our last deal, we would also like you to return Nady, we will give you some prospects, but if they turn out and you cant afford them, we will be back for them too”
Are we really giving stock to anything that Buster Olney writes that isn’t a news item?
I don;t mean to rain on everyone’s Monday, but here it is (makes me sick just posting this!):
Mets Team Report Apr 28, 2008
Left fielder Moises Alou will return to New York on Monday for an MRI on his sore left ankle.
A CT scan last Friday “showed something,” general manager Omar Minaya said, which he admitted “could potentially be a slight fracture.”
Alou is currently on the disabled list recovering from hernia surgery. He had been progressing well until he experienced soreness in his ankle.
“He was pretty close to playing,” Minaya said.
Minaya said Alou was not injured on a particular play, but started complaining of soreness and swelling.
Just assume Alou is not playing this year, same goes for Pedro, if you accept them as bonus’ you will go to sleep easier at night. I don’t know if everyone noticed, but it looked like Willie started leaving Pagan out of the lineup lately so you would sort of forget about him when Alou returned, I assume you are going to be seeing more of Pagan now.
this is yesterday’s news