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According to Adam Rubin in the Daily News, the Mets have shown interest in Rockies closer Brian Fuentes, ‘though no deal is considered imminent.’
Last December, Ken Rosenthal reported at FoxSports.com that the Mets had offered RHP Aaron Heilman to the Rockies for Fuentes, but Colorado also wanted Scott Schoeneweis, and so ‘talks disintegrated.’
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This is what I was worried about, the Mets don’t need Brian Fuentes, and the only way they could acquire him is to do something stupid. This organization mirrors the Knicks so closely it’s scary, right down to Willie’s photos of the owner with a male prostitute.
Fuentes has a 2.28 era, 1.12 whip, .225 baa, 25k in 27.1 innings and 10 saves out of 13 chances. How do you figure we don’t need a guy like that?
away from coors that whip goes down to 1.05 and baa to .188
the guy can pitch and can be a bona fide set up man. do you not follow baseball? he will be a huge plus to the pen
If the Mets were just given Brian Fuentes then I obviously would be very happy, but, because I follow baseball, I realize that in order to get a top reliever the Mets will have to give up more than they should. Despite the last few games, the Mets aren’t under .500 right now because of the bullpen.
Uhhh… Are you really sure about that?
I understand your concern for the Mets “other” glaring weknesses (at 1st, 2nd and LF). But at 32-34 with Billy Wagner having blown 3 straight saves and the repeated Aaron Heilman debacles…the bullpen actually IS the reason we’re under .500. Granted we’d only be a few games over, but who wouldn’t take 5 over right now instead of 2 under?
“This organization mirrors the Knicks so closely it’s scary, right down to Willie’s photos of the owner with a male prostitute.”
:)
if Minaya were to pull off a Heilman for Fuentes trade he would again be considered a genius…
I’m logged in but the comment says I’m not…?
That’s odd.
Now it’s OK
Very well then….
Randolph is not going to get anything more out of the current crop of players.
Adding more isn’t going to help. If it does then the focus shifts to Manaya and the reasons why he didn’t make moves down the stretch last year.
Either way a bobble head must roll.
This was from December, not August or September.
If Omar had made this trade, our bullpen would be very lefty heavy and the only RH pitchers would be Smith. You needed Heilman because you didn’t know what you’d get from Wise or Sanchez.
Trading Heilman? Maybe, not sure he’ll ever get his confidence back here or be consistently effective. Trading Show too? That would just be plain stupid. Agree that’s too high a price for Fuentes.
Rockies aren’t being fair in that deal. Two relievers for the price of one?! Granted, Heliman isn’t anything to write home about these days, but still.
If the Rockies want the Show, then I say do it. Show’s value will never be higher than it is right now. As long as the Rockies pick up the whole salary, I am in favor.
thank you for nailing every point
heilman and show right now I think would be a good deal… both have a chance of doing well outside of NY, and heilman’s drop in value may be equal to show’s rise, so maybe they still would take it?
I’ve come to like Show this year, but I would be inclined to trade him plus maybe a prospect and save heilman for some other trade.
This is where Omar needs to do his homework. If the Rockies want both relievers make sure we get at least a prospect back along with Fuentes.
Exactly… I don’t mind giving up both pitchers if the Rockies will throw-in a low-to-mid level prospect. After all, Minaya was formerly a “scouting genius” before he became a GM many years ago… so let’s see if Minaya can pull another Perez or Maine out of his magic bag of tricks, since he seems to do ok on returns in trades when asking for throw-ins…
Quite frankly, the starters need to suck it up and go at least 7-8 innings instead of 5-6. Then the bullpen wouldn’t be tired and battered and we’d be winning ballgames.
If our starters went 7-8 innings a game we would have a modern day record.
trading for Fuentes is a dumb idea, especially when we would have to give up something pretty good to get him. Besides, this team’s biggest problem is getting hits with RISP and that is on the hitters. The Mets are kidding themselves if they think this team can win this year with this mediocre team. And giving up more prospects is a band aid fix that will further cripple this team’s future.