The Mets met today with the Beverly Hills Sports Council, who represent free agent closers Brian Fuentes and Trevor Hoffman.
From what I can gather, Kerry Wood’s agent will be in Las Vegas later tonight, at which point he too will schedule a meeting with the Mets.
According to the New York Post, FoxSports.com and SI.com, the Mets offered Francisco Rodriguez a three-year deal today.
Last week, on ESPN.com, Buster Olney said the Mets might decide to make appropriate offers to each closer, ‘and the first one to jump at their proposal will be signed.’
K-rod or Wood….nothing else is acceptable
K-Rod and Street
I hope they’re just blowing smoke, because that would be a terrible way to actually make a decision.
i agree..krod and street would be a good combo…what about throwin brad penny into the pen to throw close to 100 and get some outs?
09 projected pen
krod
street
smith
feliciano(hopefully hes not apart of the street deal)
ayala
schoenwise
cruz
two simultaneous offers… that’s what they didn’t they do that with benji molina and ramon hernandez… we ended up with lo duca… which means we’ll end up with Putz as our new closer
we ain’t gonna end up with nothin’ if the man don’t start dealin’
there is other teams and other blogs ya know!
Come on Omar
Let’s Go Mets!
The Mets have to sign K Rod. Brian Fuentes lost his closing job in Colorado twice so why should we sign him. Kerry Wood gets hurt twice a year. We need K Rod. Also Matt can you please switch the comment board to the original way. It was so much better.
Is Olney right? Are the Mets just offering to all and whoever signs first. That could make us end up with someone liek Hoffman.
not a fan of fuentes or hoffman. i can see fuentes in the pen but i don’t see why he deserves $10M a year to close.
I could live with either Wood or K-Rod as the closer, and either Street or Hoffman as the setup guy. Let’s remember that Hoffman doesn’t have a WS ring, and getting one of those would make him more of a first-ballot HOFer than he is already. That might make him more likely to “settle” on being a setup man, rather than a closer with a Reagan-era fastball (and a Carteresque changeup).
i hope omar avoids any of the walking disabled list players: wood, sheets, burnett, pedro
It’s possible Olney is right about that, but based on all the other reports, he’d be the first one to be right about anything so far.
sincekindergarten: ur right, hoffman doesnt have a WS ring, its because he cant pitch in the big games–hes notoriously known as a choke–which the mets will be unless they sign krod n trade for street
Hey honestly any one of them would be fine. They all would be upgrades over what we have now. The rest of the pen would be ok. The pen wasn’t anywhere near as bad people think. When it wasn’t Billy blowing key saves mid year it was the pen blowing them without him. A closer like KROD would be great especially in the NL when you get a lot of pinch hitters late in games. Then every one else will fall into place. KRod better know he isnt getting 4 for 46 anywhere.
if we can’t get k-rod i wouldnt mind wood – we could print up t-shirts that say GOT WOOD !!!
Hoffman is 41 years old! Fuentes is 35, and his best years are past. KRod is under 30, WS experience, most saves in the AL last year.
Stop the madness– you have an OPPORTUNITY to sign a top closer for a multi-year pact. Why do you want to lowball him, so in a few years he’ll be packing up to go to the Yanks or Sox or Phils or Braves or…??
Can’t the Mets learn from the successful organiztions– YOUTH is the answer. Look at the Rays– they came up short in the WS, but they’ll be back in the hunt every year for many years to come. Stop signing old timers!