Poll: Carlos Delgado and a One-year Deal
In a post to his blog for the New York Times, Ben Shpigel quotes ‘Captain Obvious,’ and says this off season the Mets hope to acquire another slugger and add a No. 2 starter behind Johan Santana.
Shpigel sees 22–year-old 1B Ike Davis as being on a path similar David Wright, who was promoted to Double-A in 2003, then hit well in the Arizona Fall League, returned to Double-A the following season for 90 games, he was promoted to the Mets later that summer and never looked back.
In the meantime, according to Shpigel, Omar Minaya will visit the Puerto Rican winter league to scout Carlos Delgado, “who must first prove that he is healthy before entertaining contract offers.”
To read more from Shpigel, who also writes about other off season goals for Minaya, and the type of contract Delgado can 
expect to receive, check out his blog post, here.
Delgado had been hitting .298 with four HR and 23 RBI in the 26 games before ending his season with a hip injury, which ultimately needed surgery.
…people seem to think i hate delgado, which is not true… i have actually enjoyed watching him play… i think he’s a fascinating guy, he’s super smart, his charity is amazing, he can be powerful with the bat when he’s healthy, and he’s been fun to watch… but, i just feel the Mets need to move on, in some way… and, if not in places like delgado, Fernando Tatis, Brian Schneider, etc., then where…
…i mean, every season fans and reporters argue the team is the same as those that failed, yet we all keep clinging to the same people… i believe the Mets need to, at the very least, rotate their role players, if for no other reason than to a) change up the faces and culture of the team, and b) dislodge the old leadership in favor of a new one, which i wrote more about yesterday, here…
…yes, i wrote the same thing about Pedro Martinez, who returned to help get the Phillies to a World Series… ouch… but, i still think it was the right move, despite how the season turned out… to me, delgado is a place the team can do this again especially given the unknown that surrounds him physically… plus, for him, he just seems better suited for the American League, where he can get paid, in peace, be a DH and not put a ton of stress on his hip…
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