Buzz: Ibanez, Bay or Blake are the Mark
Yesterday, in a post to his blog for the New York Post, citing ‘team officials,’ Joel Sherman wrote that the Mets continue to look heavily at Pirates OF Jason Bay, M’s OF Raul Ibanez and Indians OF Casey Blake.
Today in the Daily News, citing a ‘team insider,’ Rubin also writes that the team has expressed interest in Blake, Ibanez and Bay.
According to Rubin, “The belief is that those teams’ demands, currently exorbitant, will relax as Thursday’s trading deadline approaches.”
…with or without Ryan Church, i believe the Mets should make a trade for an outfielder…at this point, i have no problem with using Jon Niese or Eddie Kunz to help further invest in this current season, which is going far better than most people thought it would just 30 days ago…the Mets neglected their farm system a bit over the previous few seasons, clobbered it further with the Johan Santana trade, and so i just as soon keep depleting it while trusting that the most recent minor-league acquisitions, such as Brad Holt and Reese Havens and Wilmer Flores, are all the start of a new-and-improved farm system instead…
…in other words, as long as it’s not Fernando Martinez, who, at this point, i am not sure is even a requirement for such a deal anyways, i have no problem if minaya wants to trade niese, kunz, Mike Carp, etc, to bring in an upgrade…
…to me, this team needs a stable, reliable corner outfielder, who a) the Mets can run out there every day and know what they’ll get, b) helps to prop up the back-end of the batting order, and c) who will help return order the bench…Damion Easley, Fernando Tatis, Marlon 
Anderson and Endy Chavez are not starting outfielders, they are superb bench players, which is where they best serve the team…
…bay would be nice, obviously, but ibanez or blake or even Adam Dunn would also do the trick…
Yesterday, at SNY.tv Ted Berg explained why the Mets should consider buying low on Dunn.
…the thing is, i’m not sure it’s a matter of buying low…it’s a matter of offering more than what the Reds believe they will draft with the two picks their likely to get in the off-season when dunn leaves as a free agent…
…the knock on dunn seems to be that he’s just not that smart of a baseball player…but, frankly, who cares…the Mets do not need a Gold Glove outfielder…they have endy as a defensive replacement…if he clogs the bases, they’ll adjust…and, dunn, like bay, would bring extra substance to the middle of the lineup in name recognition alone…
…ibanez does this to a less extent, as does blake, who has also played third base, shortstop and first base during his nine-year career…blake actually reminds me a lot of Xavier Nady, and he would help balance out the batting order as well as any one on minaya’s wish list…
…plus, blake is a rough player who already has his playoff beard…
