The Colorado Rockies have announced they will not be offering a contract to Garrett Atkins, making him a free agent.
Atkins had an absolutely awful 2009 campaign, hitting only .226 with 9 HR and a .650 OPS in 399 plate appearances. His salary was $7.05M and would have been well over $5M at minimum if he was offered arbitration, so the Rockies cut him loose.
Should the Mets be interested?
Former Mets Adam Bostick, Vance Wilson, and Bruce Chen have signed minor league deals with the Kansas City Royals, with all receiving invitations to spring training. Both Wilson and Chen made comebacks after Tommy John surgery in 2009, with Chen pitching in 17 games for the Royals and Wilson catching in 59 games for KC’s … Read more
J.J. Putz agreed to terms with the White Sox on a one-year, $3M contract plus incentives. Heck, at that price I would’ve liked to have seen him return to the Mets, who paid for his surgery and rehab. Oh well. But hey, the Mets won’t miss the 7 players they sent to Seattle and Cleveland … Read more
The Mets made one pick in the Major League phase of the Rule 5 Draft, and flipped him to the Dodgers for “cash considerations”. The complete draft can be found here. The Mets have been desperately seeking a LOOGY for over a year, and could have taken a shot at one of the lefty pitchers … Read more
As usual, more buzz and rumors than action, but there were some deals accomplished on the last day of the winter meetings. Here is a quick recap of the news.
First up, the Mets did actually sign a free agent: minor league pitcher Clint Everts (according to a tweet by Bob Nightengale). Everts is NOT related to Chris Evert, and doesn’t even play tennis as far as we know. He was, however, a high school teammate of Scott Kazmir, and at one time was the … Read more
Cancel that jersey order! The Mets have traded their first-round Rule 5 Pick Carlos Monasterios to the Los Angeles Dodgers for cash considerations. It was a brief, but eventful career. Unfortunately, the Monasterios Era is officially over.
Big news this morning: the Mets took pitcher Carlos Monasterios in the Rule 5 draft. Don’t worry, you’re not supposed to have heard of him. The fun part is they plucked him from the Philadelphia Phillies organization. Monasterios is a 23-year-old righthander (will be 24 in March) from Venezuela who throws a hard sinker in … Read more
