Mets Will Make Offers to Fuentes, K-Rod
According to David Lennon of Newsday, the Mets will be making contract offers this week to Francisco Rodriguez AND Brian Fuentes.
So if they both say yes, I guess the Mets will have both a setup man and a closer. Perhaps that suggests that they don’t see Fuentes as a closer? (Keep fingers crossed!)
If the Mets win 90-95 games, each of the men has a chance to save at least 40-45.
On the other hand, maybe this is just the Mets once again using the brilliant strategy of “race to the dotted line”, which as we know worked so well with Bengie Molina and Ramon Hernandez in the 2005-2006 offseason. So well, the Mets ended up trading prospects for Paul LoDuca.
If history is any indicator, both relievers will decline their respective contract offers, and the Mets will trade for Huston Street or Bobby Jenks.
On a side note, Albert Pujols won the NL MVP today, which I’m not in agreement with. His stats were the best in the league, yes, but he was not the MOST VALUABLE PLAYER in the league. I mean, if he were really that valuable, couldn’t he have gotten his team to the postseason? My vote would have been for Ryan Howard, who finished 2nd. David Wright was the highest placing Met, who probably had the most consistent season, but us fans know that Carlos Delgado deserved the most MVP votes out of the Met players. These writers are always so busy looking for the player with the best statistics when casting their MVP votes that they completely ignore the players that had the most impact on their teams being successful. The two are not one in the same. This is how Juimmy Rollins stole the MVP from Matt Holliday a year ago, and why Pujols got the award today over Howard.
I have to agree with you on the insanity of the Pujols MVP … to the point where I may be moved enough to write a post about it. But hey, ‘dude, maybe the Cardinals wouldn’t have been able to finish fourth without him. Grrrrrrrr ………