CAN THE METS AFFORD DAVID WRIGHT?
The guy is
not going to come cheap. Many teams in baseball covet him, and I would think it
would make sense for even the Yankees to want him but they would never sign
him. Not even if there was no penalty for going over the money limit. A-Rod is
one of my prime examples of large long-term contracts, and why you don’t do it.
David Wright
is the face of not only the New York Mets, but baseball. He has the
all-American good - looking boy, great moral character and says and does all
the right things. More importantly, he can hit, hit with power, is smart on the
base paths and can field his position.
Mets fans
love David Wright, and David Wright loves New York.
Can the team
sign him? That is the question. Sandy Alderson is a baseball person. He looks
at the bottom line and the bottom line only. He was put in position by the
Wilpons to execute their orders, there are no loyalties and no sense of rivalry
with the cross town rivals, the New York Yankees. I’m sorry but that is a fact.
“I’m extremely optimistic,” he said. “I’ve really enjoyed it here
… There’s not a single complaint that I have,” Wright said. “(The Mets)
drafted me as a kid. They developed me. They’ve given me an opportunity to make
a living playing a game. There’s a tremendous amount of mutual respect. They’ve
gone above and beyond.”
But can the
team sign him? The Mets lost $23 Million this year so far. They have collapsed
and they have failed to resign another favorite, Jose Reyes. Alderson is the GM
while all this happens, and you get the picture. There is a real danger of
losing the best third baseman the Mets ever had! They already lost the best
short stop the Mets ever had.
If the Mets do not sign Wright, next year and for years to
come: Citifield will be like Shea Stadium, Grant’s Tomb. The fans out of anger
will stop coming to the ballpark and the team might not recover in Wilpon’s
lifetime.
But you can’t deny the writing on the wall, Alderson has ti
do what he is told, he has a limit as to what he can afford and that is it. My
hope is that with Jason Bay’s contract coming to a close that money will enable
the Mets to re-sign Wright.
That’s all I wrote, folks!
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