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Buzz: Teams Not Yet Ready to Give Up

by Matthew Cerrone on June 9th, 2009 at 9:58 am

Yesterday, on FOX’s Best Damn Sports Show Period, FOXSports.com’s Ken Rosenthal had the following to say about the trade market:

“It’s still the second week of June, and we’re not yet in the situation where teams are ready to give up… Oakland has a team with a young rotation, and they don’t want to lose the support for that young rotation by starting to trade people now.  In time, perhaps… We’re gonna see a lot of activity (in the trade market), but it’s just not time.”

…i get a lot of e-mails saying, ‘Why don’t the Mets just go get so-and-so,’ as if it only matters what the Mets want… i mean, it takes two to tango, and the other team has a plan and goal as well… the only team, right now, who you could probably go and make something happen with would be the Nationals…

In a post to Mets Today, Joe Janish explains why the Mets should not look to acquire a power bat, instead going after speed.

“Chicks don’t dig the long ball when it’s caught at the warning track,” Janish concludes.

…i totally agree, joe… this is why, a guy like A’s OF Matt Holliday could end up being the best solution, because he runs well, can steal a base, he can hit the ball for a double in the gap, and he plays an aggressive-style of baseball, for better or worse, which i think the team and fans will enjoy…

…the problem is a) will the A’s ever trade him, and b) if they decide to trade him, will the A’s ever trade him… i mean, how many times have we, as Mets fans, been down this road with Billy Beane, only to see him sit on the player and do nothing… what’s more, don’t look now, but the A’s are just four games under .500 and six games back of first place…

Last week, in a report for SI.com, Jon Heyman wrote that the Mets will not trade Fernando Martinez in a deal for Holliday.

However, yesterday morning, on ESPN Radio, Buster Olney said, from what he can tell, as of now, no team is willing to give up the number of prospects Beane will be seeking in return for Holliday.

Instead, Beane could simply keep Holliday, offer arbitration, let him walk as a free agent, and receive two compensatory draft picks.

…and so, in the end, the Mets biggest competition for holliday may be beane’s imagination, and what he believes he can get in return for those picks…