Friday, September 14, 2012

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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