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Buzz: One Guy in DR thinks Mets might trade F-Mart

by Matthew Cerrone on November 26th, 2009 at 8:31 am

Mets 21–year-old OF Fernando Martinez returned from knee surgery last weekend, and is 1 for 12 with one strike out in three games for Escogido in the Dominican Winter League.

In a post to his blog for the Daily News, Adam Rubin quotes a friend in the Dominican Republic who believes the Mets told Escogido to delay Martinez’s return because they have been talking about trading him in the offseason.

… i don’t know how i feel about this… like i said last week, on one hand, because i have been following his career for so long now, whether he will or will not be a star, it seems i have a hard to giving up on him… not to mention, this year, in his fourth professional season, at age 20, he hit .290 with 26 extra base hits in 45 games for Triple-A Buffalo… which is impressive… at the same time, he struggled with the Mets, then had season-ending knee surgery, he’s seemingly always injured, and how long will the Mets wait for him to get it together, for fear that his stock keeps dropping…

Last week, in a poll to MetsBlog.com, 61 percent of more than 6,000 people who voted said the Mets should not trade Martinez this off season, while letting him continue to develop.