Last week, the Cincinnati Enquirer asked Reds GM Walt Jocketty if he would trade 1B Joey Votto, and he said, “Oh God, no.”
Nevertheless, in a post to the Bleacher Report, Nick Adamo explains why, “Omar Minaya better make an attempt to bring Votto to the Mets.”
Votto, 26, who hit .322 with 25 HR last 
season, will earn the league minimum salary next season, he is eligible for arbitration the following three seasons, and cannot be a free agent until 2013.
Meanwhile, Kevin, the Pessimistic Mets Fan, makes the case for acquiring Carl Crawford.
The Mets need pitching, according to the Real Dirty, and Andrew on Hot Foot believes the Mets could use Chien-Ming Wang.
Inversely, the Mets Citi Blog lists six free agents the Mets should avoid signing, such as Benjie Molina and Nick Johnson.
Lastly, Brian Costa of the Star Ledger asks four Mets bloggers to weigh in on the state of the team.
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Why would the Reds trade him and why would Omar even waste his time trying to trade for him. Trade for Phillips and/or Harang.
Exactly, the Reds need to keep the Vottos of the world, not trade them.
Yet Nick Adamo says Omar better make an attempt to bring him to the Mets. Even though the Reds have no desire to trade him and any idea of trading him came from the fevered mind of some sports pundit looking to make his deadline.
God I would never want to be a GM in New York.
Agree on Phillips/Harang, but it’s not that crazy that the Reds would trade Votto.
Their top prospect, Yonder Alonso, is another no-field first baseman like Votto. I can’t imagine either guy playing another position.
While they’ll likely hold onto Votto for another year or two, it’s not totally crazy they’d look to move him.
Obviously Votto is a great bat and we need a young first baseman, but this seems fishy to me. If the Reds are really willing to deal a player this good so early in his time under team control (whether they have another promising minor league potential first baseman or not), you have to suspect that there’s something about his time missed last season to clinical depression that they know and others don’t. This is a sort of “if it’s too good to be true it probably isn’t” type of situation…
The Reds have NO desire to trade Votto. At least that’s how I interpreted the GM’s response to the question.
This is all just hallucinations generated by the blogosphere.
Agreed, any GM that would trade such a player, with that many “cheap” years left on his club control would be fired immediately!
I said this didn’t make sense when someone on this site mentioned it a while back.
it’s like holding out the idea that some GM would think John Maine is a good idea in trades.
theres going to be a lot of good players on the trade market. unfortunately the mets dont have the farm system to pull off multiple trades.
This is stupid. Please nobody pay any attention to this stupid post; I don’t want to have to read moronic fans saying all we have to do is go get Votto.
JOEY VOTTO IS NOT AVAILABLE. THE REDS ARE IN THE MOST DESIRABLE POSITION THEY COULD POSSIBLY BE IN WITH HIM. THEY WILL NOT TRADE HIM.
are you talking to me?
nonono, i was referring to the Cerrone post, not you
hey 2 angels are you really robert deniro……
After the Mets get Votto (probably straight up for Parnell), Omar better get Mauer to fill the catching hole and Matt Kemp to play LF. I bet a sweet package of Daniel Murphy and Josh Thole could bring in these types of players. Great article.
Totally. Then we can trade that Mejia dude in AA for Tim Lincecum, and Ruben Tejada for Felix Hernandez. I don’t know why Omar doesn’t know that these trades are available. PULL THE TRIGGER OMAR.
Whoa whoa whoa whoa… don’t package Murphy and Thole. That’s too much. Use MURPHY to get Lincecum plus prospects, and Thole to get Kemp (but only if the Dodgers throw in Ethier, too.)
I’m sorry, I forgot to add “get it done, Omar” in all-caps.
GET IT DONE OMAR!!!!!!
Unless Jim Pohlad wants to finance a revival of “No, No, Nanette” don;t count on the Mauer deal seeing the light of day.
First, Votto’s not going anywhere. End of story.
Second, a general complaint. If you write anywhere publicly, where your words are seen in print, be it a newspaper or a blog or a magazine or a website or whatever… could you do us all a favor and learn how to overcome chronic punctuation and grammatical errors? One of the reasons that “MetsBlog” and “Faith and Fear in Flushing” are so popular, and the reason that I bookmark them both, are because the people who write for them actually know how to write.
I’m not talking about the occasional spelling gaffe or what-not. That’s forgivable. I’m referring to errors that are consistent and persistent. For example, this Nick Adamo person has no idea how or where to use commas. That kills the flow of his article and makes it terribly unpleasant to read. Consider “Bleacher Report” not-bookmarked.
Yeah, I know I’m a grammar Nazi. It bugs me, though. Just sayin’.
(Oh, and to even suggest that the Mets could get Joey Votto for a package highlighted by Daniel Murphy and John Maine… there’s another reason not to read this dud. Oh, I’m sorry. I meant “dude”. Sure I did.)
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