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According to Jon Heyman of SI.com, in an interview with WFAN yesterday:
- The Mets will pick up Carlos Delgado’s option.
- They will not trade David Wright or Jose Reyes.
- The Mets are thinking about Manny Ramirez, who will want a three–or four-year deal.
- They think they need to go out and get a catcher.
Later, the show’s host, Mike Francesa, said he has been told that Ryan Church ‘hated it here,’ while adding, ‘I know for a fact that he didn’t like the team, he didn’t like the city and he was not a happy guy here.’
Heyman said he had not heard that Church ‘hated’ New York, but added, ‘I think the Mets believe that he’s not a fit here, and may be better off some place else.’
…before people go bananas ripping church, my advice is to always take francesa’s ‘facts’ with a grain of salt…this is not to say he’s wrong, i just can’t trust that he is fully right…to say, ‘i know for a fact,’ should mean church told francesa this first hand, but somehow i doubt that is how it went down – and if so, since it’s ‘fact,’ why wouldn’t francesa just state his source…
…i’d be curious to hear what a beat reporter has to say about this, speaking as some one who is in the clubhouse with church…
Church is eligible for arbitration each of the next three seasons, and can be a free agent after 2011.
To check out Heyman’s entire interview on WFAN, during which he previews the MLB playoffs, click here, and to read Heyman’s work go to SI.com.
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If Mike Francessa said he knows for a fact…then it must be true.
He was dead on about the Twins taking nothing less than Reyes for Santana…
And that Keith Hernandez wanted to be the manager of the Mets.
And that Johan Santana preferred to play for the Yankees, and that the Yankees would get Carlos Beltran, and that Jose Reyes and David Wright were no name prospects the Mets should have dealt for Alfonso Soriano and Randy Johnson respectively.
Honestly, he should stick to football, for all his baseball watching, he knows JACK about the game.
I love it.. what waste.. replacing both the guys we “got” for Milledge…
We won’t get Manny to help us make the playoffs this year.. but we’ll take away all his motivation and give him a 4 year deal and THEN sign him.
Anyone else wonder why we can’t win the division??
Truly, a modern-day Nostradomus.
Truly, he puts the “No” in Nostradomus.
I really think they need to start over after the last 2 years….
start off with delgado, reyes, wright, and beltran, johan, pelfrey, maine and smith and thats it….fill in the holes with free agents or trades…i would trade castillo in a second for byrnes who could fill one of those holes in the corner outfield….i think they could also trade for holliday to play the other corner….i dont care what prospects they use, they need to do it. 2nd base can go to murphy….then the bullpen needs to start all over..joe smith is the only one that stays
I think everyone who says “Murphy can play 2nd” are being a little bit too rosy. The guy has always been described as a hitter who cannot field. After watching him bungle a few plays in the outfield, how confident can you really be about him playing second base?
Can’t be but it’s worth a shot. Send him all winter to work on it and try and unload Castillo. If you have to start the season with a guy like Ramon Martinez and Easley until you find a solution then so be it.
Well hopefully he can hone his skill at 2nd base in the Arizona Fall League. As someone alluded to, Murphy is not skilled at his glove, but I am willing to take him over Castillo (past his prime) anyday.
I agree. I don’t Murphy as a 2b, but its worth a shot. He needs to work his butt at 2b all offseason for this to have even an iota of a chance.
I will deal with him running some rough glove anywhere on that field to see him hit in a met uniform.
people say they will deal with ramon martinez and easley platooning, but when ramon martinez starts to look like luis castillo, i doubt that will be ok.
i don’t think murphy will be even an average 2b. the question is, can you deal with his glove at the cost of his bat? take dan uggla for instance…the guy hit over 30hr this year, so in my mind his bat is worth his lack of glove (but of course he morphed into a gold glover whenever we played). will murphy have the power to be considered worth the lack of a glove? if so, i wonder if he is a sell high kind of prospect. we know the guy can hit, but i wonder what we could get back for him? do we see him joining reyes and wright as the under 30 core of the team? omar has some tough decisions with murph, but i have trouble seeing him as a long term solution at 2b.
also remember if you have a subpar second baseman in murphy, it only exacerbates the weakness on the right side with an ever older delgado at first base.
Like everybody else, I love Daniel Murphy and want to see him with a permanent slot on this team. But I have to say I’m really skeptical about him playing second base.
I don’t think Murphy is really quick or nimble enough to play that position. It’s not his fault — I just don’t think his body is built that way. I’m not saying that Murphy is slow — he’s not — but can you see him out there turning double plays smoothly? He doesn’t really seem to have the fluidity of motion to do that well.
I’m actually kind of surprised that he came up as a third baseman, and maybe I have a bias here against him as an infielder because I’ve never seen him as one. But I can’t help it — he just looks more like an outfielder to me. And I think he’s getting better at left field and could easily develop into a decent, perhaps slightly better than average player at that position.
I don’t know, maybe I’m out of my mind here. It’s quite possible. But Murphy at 2B just seems unlikely to me. We’ll see…
Can the guy get more 150 AB’s in MLB before we anoint him as a starter? It is not like he was a top prospect. He caught us by surprise and hit well early on. But he was 3 for his last 30 or so. I am not comfortable giving him a starting job and relying on him
The only people he caught be surprise are the people who are only enamored with long balls from minor league prospects, he has incredible plate discipline, shows absolutely no fear, read situations well and knows when to to swing early and when to drive counts, hitters like that are not accidents.
Murphy as been improving at every level as he went through the Mets system.
You go ahead and not be comfortable.
It was a loud 3 for his last 30. I agree with you, it was a small sample size. However, his approach at the plate and patience makes you believe he can be very good. Makes solid contact. He seemed to hit into bad luck in that 3 for his last 30. Lots of line drives.
Isn’t that what they said about Jeff Kent?
Steamboat Willie
Did you say to Mike that Church doesnt like playing in NY?
Again…I don’t know if this is true, but if it is Church certainly hides it well.
For somebody who claims to be friends with Minaya, Mike Francessa knows crap about the Mets.
LOL Church does not fit in here. LOL. Here’s Mike trying to make a story out of nothing again. I guess the Reyes Wright thing did not take hold so why not make up something else.
This is the biggest bunch of crap I’ve ever heard. I’d love for Church to call in and shut Fat Man up.
It was an utter disgrace, how long he’s spent trying to convince Mets fans one of Reyes & Wright need to go.
The WFAN needs to be called out on it. A proposition that ridiculous can only be construed as one thing: jealousy.
Re Church is certainly possible, but anyone who claims to know another person’s thought process “for a fact” probably dosen’t.
He seemed to be doing just fine at the beginning of the year, when he was he team’s best player.
Although I guess I wouldn’t blame him if he was unhappy in NY, after two concussions and getting jerked around by the medical staff for several weeks.
well if they trade Church and Schnieder I sure hope they get more than Lastings Milledge in return…
so now we need a LF, a RF, a 2B, and a C? yikes!
and a bullpen.
and 2 starters…
If they really want to trade Church, then maybe they can get quality bullpen arms in return, and personally, I wouldn’t mind giving Tatis a shot in right field.
Tatis, maybe in LF, but I’d rather him be a bench player. Tatis-Ed!
Juan Rivera is our answer
The one thing about Manny Ramirez that you can’t say about too many of the Mets hitters is that he is clutch. He never goes into lengthy slumps and has been to the postseason numerous times and always seems to come up big. In a big spot, there is nobody else in baseball that you want at the plate than him. It has been said that the Mets don’t necessarily need offense, just clutch offense. Manny would provide that. He is the master of getting the “big hit”.
The thing is…I don’t know if Manny wants to come back to the Northeast. Obviously I don’t know him like Francessa knows Church, but from what I’ve read Manny did not like the media scrutiny in Boston. He didn’t like that after losses he had to be accountable. In L.A. he loves being able to not worry about the press and fan pressure after losses…Its much laid back there.
Of course, 3 years and $60 million might change that.
True, but he is from Washington Heights, so it might be more like a homecoming for him. Sure, it would be risky since he could lose interest and pull his crazy antics, but the upside is huge. He is an absolute monster for the Dodgers and he will likely do the same in the first year of his new contract.