Starting Pitcher: Mets like Sheets, he likes Years
Tonight on the MLB Network’s Hot Stove Show, which airs every night at 7 pm, SI.com’s Tom Verducci said:
“The Mets like Ben Sheets, but they want to make this heavily loaded with incentives based on starts or innings pitched… Sheets says, ‘Hey, I pitched 198 innings last year, I should be guaranteed more money.’”
Verducci believes the Mets want Sheets, but they need to ‘bridge that gap,’ and, right now, ‘they’re just not close.’
…from what i can gather, the Mets are thinking of a deal like Brad Penny signed in Boston, i.e., one-year, $5 million, lots of incentives including an option for the following season, while sheets is thinking of a two-year deal, worth roughly $9 million per season, with incentives and an option for a third season…so, verducci is correct, that is a pretty big gap…
