Comments on: Buzz: Teams are Interested in Nelson Cruz

By: patrick

patrick — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:00:55 +0000

I’d trade another 10 double plays for another 15-20 sac flys or hits combined over ks

By: MetLifer

MetLifer — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:56:59 +0000

Why not? Because we have similar guys in AAA. The only reason they’re not up here is because they’re not on the 40 man roster. We should trade for this guy and guarantee him a spot on our roster?

By: dave56dj

dave56dj — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:51:40 +0000

I realize morales is only 25, but you do realize he is in the minors, and he has ops’d a whopping 717 in the majors while hitting 9 hr’s.

By: iknowmets

iknowmets — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:41:00 +0000

bad news he was already a met

February 17, 1998: Signed by the New York Mets as an amateur free agent.

August 30, 2000: Traded by the New York Mets to the Oakland Athletics for Jorge Velandia.

December 16, 2004: Traded by the Oakland Athletics with Justin Lehr to the Milwaukee Brewers for Keith Ginter.

July 28, 2006: Traded by the Milwaukee Brewers with Carlos Lee to the Texas Rangers for Laynce Nix, Kevin Mench, Francisco Cordero, and Julian Cordero (minors).

By: GregB

GregB — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:27:02 +0000

Cruz seems to be one of the AAAA players that is too good for AAA, but not quite good enough to hit in the majors.

Then again, that may be better than the spare parts we’ve been throwing out in left field for much of the season (Anderson, Evans, Aguila, Nixon, Clark). If he can be had cheap, why not?

I’d be happy with Beltran, Chavez and either Alou or Church every day. Who knows if we’ll ever be see either of those two for an extended period. Better come up with a backup plan Omar.

By: bigchart333

bigchart333 — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:25:23 +0000

If I was Minaya, i would seriously start throwin Heilman’s name around a package of some mid level prospects to improve this team. We have plenty of guys in the minors to replace him, namely Muniz and Kunz (who should be up here already). And what with El Duque probably going to the pen, I think we have more than enough to lose the awesome power of Heilman and still be able to move forward as a team.

By: MetLifer

MetLifer — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:22:58 +0000

Next!

We have plenty of guys like this. If you look at Cruz’s stats, he’s already 28 years old. Before this year, the max he ever hit was 20HR in a season. He’s shown that he can’t hit ML pitching with 3 cups of tea in the Majors. What’s so great about him besides a fluke year?

By: CaseStreet

CaseStreet — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:22:49 +0000

What would it take to get Kendry Morales from the Angels? He hits for power from both sides of the plate and the Angels are overloaded with 1B.

Does anyone know what needs they have? Can the Mets fill them?

By: Necciai27

Necciai27 — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:19:44 +0000

Here’s an interesting tidbit…we were the first team to sign Nelson Cruz. However, in typical Steve Phillips fashion, he was sent to the Oakland A’s in 2000, netting the immortal Jorge Velandia (who went 11 for 74 in his Mets career) in return.

By: Gina

Gina — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:15:57 +0000

Who are our top 5 prospects? I know F-mart, and then probably niese, but after that I have no idea.