100%, many adult beverages plus many adult vapors and we were all yanks fans, except for one phillies guy.
you missed the part where the Mets also pick up Ellsbury
despite this proposal being exactly like the idiots call in with, here's the rub. the Mets are going nowhere fast and if they decide to rebound on the fly, here's how it would make some sense:
with a farm system bereft of talent close to being ready, they would get 2 immediate young MLB ready, cost controlled pieces in Red & Austin. both should be mainstays on the big club for the next 5+ years. If Wade turns out to have any kind of bat, he adds to that list in a long term utility role.
They get another for sure piece for next year and onward in Andujar. That's our beauty in making him a player to be named later and delivered after this year. Yanks will sign Machado to fill the role but still get the Andujar/Drury tandem for this WS run. Andujar, Thunder & Austin should be 33% of the Mets core players for a long time.
The Mets have a terrible bullpen. Betances is a quality piece and becomes one of their best bp guns immediately. Maybe theor future closer. We also discussed throwing in Schrieve but ultimately decided on a decent AA pitcher instead so the the big club doesn't need to replace a left in the BP (unless CC or Monty slides there after the addition of 2 starters). Add Schreive and now the Mets have 2 new top end guys (for them at least)
Germain & Adams are "close to ready" prospects and the best arms we were willing to include in this monstrosity. The AA prospect (or Schrieve) make it at lease 4 arms going to the Mets.
Since the Mets aren't close to breaking the tax threshold, they can take on DLsbury so the Yanks get salary relief, but the Yanks will pay a portion on paper and the $50M+ cash component covers the rest, plus a few million for the Wilpons to pocket, because you know they want to.
We also talked about adding another young prospect or two, esp if we had a decent catcher to send them...but we don't.
In the end, the Mets get 8-10 assets in return, stabilize their line up for years, really upgrade their bullpen, add a few good young pitchers to their talent pool and end up several million $$ cash positive. Meanwhile, the Yanks become pretty dominant having completely ripped off the Mets and made them look like fools.
Win Win
