Buzz: The Case for Jason Bay
Alex Speier, in a post to his blog for WEEI Sports, says that the agent for Jason Bay, Joe Urbon, did not go to the General Manager’s meetings in Chicago because he has already had enough constructive conversations with teams about his client.
According to Speier, Urbon says Bay is the most “durable and productive outfielder in the game” and notes that he is one of four outfielders that has not been on the disabled list in the past five years.
…there’s no question that Bay has become a top tiered hitter, and the fact that he has been so durable should be an appealing quality, especially for the Mets who have had a black hole in left field since the departure of Cliff Floyd…but as productive as he is, i don’t see him fitting as well as either Matt Holliday or Carl Crawford, but i wouldn’t be opposed to him as a long term solution should the Mets be unable to acquire the other candidates…
…on the plus side, he has shown he can play in a pressure cooker as he has spent a year and a half in Boston, and he has been playoff tested, but he is a year and a half older than Holliday and almost three years older than Crawford, so there are more peak years ahead for the latter than there are for Bay, no matter what he has proven in the past, and he averages 42 more strikeouts per year than Holliday and almost 60 more strikeouts per year than Crawford…
For more on Urbon’s selling points for Bay, check out Speier’s post here.
