Cabrera option being picked up you could see coming a mile away. Now they’re leaking that they may bring but Reyes as well. I’m fine with both moves. Not going to find much better veteran production for $8.5 mill. Reyes coming back as an all around UTIL INF is fine. 3b [check mark].
2b will be interesting. I think Flores and TJ Rivera have used up their chances as far as starting. TJ will be in the minors, along with Cheechini who they don’t seem to believe in. Flores will be on the bench along with most likely Reyes. Trading for Dee Gordon wouldn’t be a terrible move. 2b [TBD].
Catcher. They will not making any changes here. I can almost guarantee it. Catching offensive production around the majors, absolutely sucks. Even with the juiced baseball. A Plawecki/TDA split time is totally acceptable as far as I’m concerned. They both came on in the 2nd half big time- I’m hopeful in plawecki more then ever. He definitely improved. Not going to find much better value in the production TDA/Plaw provide, for how much it will cost to bring in another option. Catcher [check mark]
Pitcher. No they’re not going to just waive Harvey (or David Wright for that matter). The guy was one of the best pitchers in baseball. The arbitration raise he will see is still low enough (he’ll get around $8 mill I think), that if he ever regains some semblance of previous form, even pitching to a ~3.5 to 4.00 ERA, is ridiculously good value. I think he gets at least one more season in a Mets uni. Lots of options for starting pitching on the market. Cobb, Lynn, Dickey, Bartolo off the top of my mind. Noah, deGrom, Matz, Harvey, Montero, Lugo, free agent or 2. Many options for rotation. Pitching pitching pitching. Ya can never have enough pitching. [TBD]
Bullpen. I think mostly what you see is what you get. Maybe a Reed, McGee, Holland etc etc is brought in. I doubt it. Sandy brought in a lot of BP guys during the trade deadline. One or 2 of Wheeler, Lugo, Gsellman will start the season in the pen as well. I think wheeler will kill it out of the pen. Shit can every pitch but fastball and curveball. I’m game. He doesn’t have much else of a choice, he’s not starter. Familia, Ramos, Blevins, Sewald, Wheeler, Bradford, Callaway, Rhame, etc. I’ve seen enough of Robles and Goeddel. They’re out. [TBD]
Center field is set in stone. Lagares/Nimmo platoon. Hopefully they stay healthy. Hopefully
-everyone- stays healthy. I’m concerned regarding the long term prospects of Conforto. I’m afraid this shoulder crap will sap his power. Such “Mets” a turn of events....
This is a huge offseason for Sandy. He literally has to nail every single move/trade he makes and pray the star players stay healthy for this team to have a chance at the playoffs.
In the end the Mets are cheap. I know it, you know it, they know it. They want to lower payroll again. SMH. We’ll see what happens...
Sorry for the long post. I don’t mess around when it comes to the Mets :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
