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David Lennon of Newsday wonders if free-agent-to-be Hideki Matsui could be a fit for the Mets.
According to Lennon, the 35 year old Matsui has told people that he is eager to play the field again and is even willing to play first base.
…the Mets have a void in the outfield and at first base which makes Matsui interesting…i worry about those knees that always flare up on him and he has had surgery on both, and the limited range he might have in the outfield at Citi Field…
Matsui is coming off of a four year, $52 million deal with the Yankees.
For more on Matsui, check out Lennon’s article.
No thanks.
Yeah with his knees I see another Alou situation waiting for him to come back to be that power threat. Then spending 123 of the teams 165 games on the DL with knee pain. If I could count on him for 130 games he would be worth the risk but I can’t even count on that.
He’s 35! No thank you.
I’ve decided that I would mortgage the farm for Halladay, sign Lackey & Harden, and plan on a fun October.
My line up tweak would be Abreu in LF
Reyes
Abreu
Wright
Beltran
Francouer
Murphy
Thole/Santos
P
Castillo
This line up should score enough to make all four starters 15-18 game winners
I also like Reyes and Castillo back to back, but not 1-2. 9-1 works for me
When I saw the title, I thought it was in reference to Kaz Matsui.
Pass in both cases.
signing matsui might be worse then signing alou….2 surgically repaired knees trying to play LF at citi, and knees that have needed to be drained…and he hasnt played 1B in 20 years so forget that….am i missing something? that signing would make 0 sense…
I can’t believe these baseball writers sometimes. I like David Lennon but why would the Mets, a National League team, be interested in this guy?
Funny…because I thought about Kaz as well.
You know i don’t think its that terrible of an idea. As long as its a one year deal with maybe a team option that we would never pick up.
Matsui>LaRoche
The only tough thing would be getting over the ex-Yankee issue but that would happen quick once he started hitting his bombs out of Citi-Field.
Potentially, another guy who has his best years behind him and Mets fans will wonder why he isn’t producing at the same level.
Exactly…Johnny Damon is playing LF instead of this guy. Enough said.
When Church was our right fielder, the push for a right hand hitting outfielder made the most sense. Now that we have Francouer in rightfield, I think it doesn’t matter if the new Left Fielder is righty or lefty.
I like Bay over Holliday. I think he has power that is independent of the park he plays in. He also fields everything he gets to cleanly.
If Bay & Holliday sign elsewhere, we could do a lot worse than Abreu
No thank you. Pass.
He won’t be able to be depended on as a full timer, it’s pretty silly. We need to get younger and not older with bad knees. We need a proven commodity in LF, this is a problem with this franchise – signing older players to deals when they are done and yes Damon is playing LF on the yankees, i think that’s enough said on the matter
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Has it occurred to anyone that the Yankees might resign him to DH?
I was going to put that in but there is a lot of buzz going around that he’ll be gone after this year b/c posada will need time at DH, and so will Damon so i’m not sure they potentially could but i hear it a lot that they won’t. On the broadcast last night Ron talked about how he’d probably only be able to play the OF 2 or 3 times a week. He’s better suited to an AL team.
We cab kiss Fielder good bye:
“The Milwaukee Brewers are willing to do most anything this winter to improve their pitching staff.
Anything except trade Prince Fielder or Ryan Braun.
Despite continuing speculation – mostly from national pundits – that the Brewers will have to trade one of their two sluggers to acquire a quality starting pitcher, general manager Doug Melvin made it clear Wednesday he isn’t entertaining such thoughts.
At his annual season-review news conference at Miller Park, Melvin said he might have to sacrifice some offense to improve his woeful starting pitching. Melvin then was asked if that meant sacrificing either Fielder or Braun.
“That would be a tough one,” said Melvin. “I didn’t mean it that way. I don’t see that happening.”
Hey if any of you guys are interested check out the USA World Cup team highlights on youtube paying particular attention to the games vs Germany and the Netherlands and you can see that maybe the Mets future isn’t so dim. Ike Davis has some pop folks and when he played he hit. His homers weren’t of the cheapy variety they were bombs. I can’t wait to see him at first in a year or 2 and his development there could make it hard for the Mets to go after anyone long term at first. Just throwing that out there.
This was a great post – it allows us to discuss the absolute worst idea on the planet for the 2010 Mets and then work our way up!
Michael, Michael, Michael nothing I repeat NOTHING should ever, ever, ever, make Matsui interesting. The fact that you wrote that almost made me spit out my morning coffee. The guy is old and has the current knees of Joe Namath. Lets file this under “Scenarios we will never talk about for the Mets again”. Thanks!
I personally would rather go after Abreu than Matsui. I am also in favor (assuming that the extreme direction of blowing the team up is not taken) of going for several lower level acquisitions plus 1 major one. Getting Abreu, Laroche, Harden, and Lackey or Halladay would do the team better than Lackey and Holliday, There seems to be enoug tier 2 options that are close enough in production to the top guys (Holliday is grossly overrated). I definitely would like to take a flier on a Harden or Sheets, as I find John Maine to be useless, and worse of an option than Perez in the rotation. In reality, I really would like to only see Santana and Niese as fixtures, with a major #2, Perez is he can find his stuff again, and a Harden filling up the rest of the rotation. I would not shed a tear if Pelfrey, Maine, and the rest of the Bad News Bears disappeared from the major league roster. This whole thing is a delicated balance, however. I do not want them to be cheap and lose out on talent, but they need to find enough lower priced FAs that still can produce in order to fill numerous holes.
If on the cheap, and for a 4th OF/PH role sure. Otherwise, no.
This seems like a typical bone head deal the METS would make. I say NO WAY !!!