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In today’s Daily News, Adam Rubin reports Francisco Rodriguez has yet to receive a single offer because the Angels have yet to release the closer’s medical reports.
Yesterday, at 1050 ESPN Radio, Rick Coutinho wrote that Rodriguez would be in New York this week to get a physical.
However, according to Rubin, citing the player’s agent, as well as a team official, Rodriguez will not be visiting New York for a tour at any time this week.
In Newsday, David Lennon explains, “The Mets still are waiting on the medical reports for both K-Rod and Fuentes, and once they have a chance to examine that information, it then becomes a matter of talking to the players, either in New York or during an on-site visit by the front-office staff. That could happen by the end of this week, at the earliest, but there is also the possibility it may stretch past Thanksgiving, as well.”
Lennon also writes about the team’s current priority list, as well as when to expect Oliver Perez, Derek Lowe and others to sign this off-season.
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I’d be happy with K-Rod and Ollie..
wake me up in February sometime and let me know what happened with the off season.
I almost don’t care who they sign, just go ahead and wildly overpay for a ‘closer” and move on to filling the important holes.
I was hping for a nice creative (as in, develop a closer) but at this piont, I just hope they build up a decent 2-3-4 in the pen to handle the later innings.
and maybe Jerry will resist the temptation to use 3 relievers every inning. Just let the guy you bring in pitch 1-2 innings, even if he has to (gasp!) face left and right handed batters!
Sign wood for 2 years + an option. Heck, if Hoffman gets hung out to dry, snap him up as a set up guy too.
Stickguy I’m with you except for the Develop a closer. The Mets simply don’t have that guy at this point. They hoped it would be Kunz, but he can only get out lefties, and they hoped it might be smith, but he can’t get out a lefty. So with Wagner out for the whole year probably, and a huge hole in your biggest bullpen role, then you have to go fill it.
I’m up for Signing Wood also, but with him you need to sign a guy like Cruz Jr, who’s a fire-baler who can step into the closers role for a few weeks if he is needed. So you need to spend on the guys you don’t have in the system. The mets have a ton of OFer’s and 1st basemen, and even catchers developing in the minors for the next few years. But they don’t have very good pitching, specifically anyone who looks to be a dominate reliever. So they have to go spend to fill that need. Maybe a guy like Parnell surprises. But better to be surprised then to Rely on the guy making a big step forward.
to clarify, the closer to develop does not have to be in the system already (although I bet there are a couple of interesting arms that could come out of nowhere and do the job).
They could trade for someone and make him the closer (as opposed to already being one).
for ex., sign Cruz and just let him close. Or grab another young guy and do the same thing. basically they need to add talent to the set up corp, and one of those guys cold just pitch the 9th instead.
heck, in 2006, Sanchez came out of relative nowhere. Say in may Wagner went down for the year, Sanchez could have ended up being given the role and getting 40 saves! It does happen every year where some unknown gets the job.
So, stock the pen with possibilities (and conceptually, Parnell or even Stokes could end up being the mystery man) and see what happens.
That is a very big and all knowing statement that the Mets don’t have a closer to develop. Youmust win a lot of money gambling since you have absolute knowledge.
Do you even know which hand Kunz pitches with? He’s right handed Mr. Mark4212. He’ll also be 23 this next April, starting his second full season as a professional. I think there’s plenty of time to develop him as the future closer. Smith will only be turning 25 in March and can still find a pitch to get lefties out. They also have the hardthrowing Parnell who they can try to develop into a closer, so to my count thats 3 right there.
Where is the link to the Newsday article?
Off-topic
I was looking back at old stats and I came across David Cone’s 1988 record.
He came in third in the CY award voting.
After looking at his stats, I do not understand how he did not win that year.
If Omar is relying on the same med staff that told him to sign Castillo to a four year deal and put Church on a plane to Arizona one day after getting a concussion, I’m not sure what he’s waiting for unless it’s a death certificate.
Ever heard of Orel Hershiser and his 59-inning scoreless streak?
Didn’t think so.