Dickey to Toronto?

[Orangeyes]

R.A. Dickey's days as a Met could be over soon

 

[moqui]

Mets are making it very difficult for me to keep rooting for them

Dickey was a class act and one of the best sports stories of the last decade. Why the hell do they break the bank and stick themselves with an overrated and declining David Wright, but won't go for just 2/25 with the best pitcher they have had in years?

If you decide you have to trade one, then trade them both, for fcuk's sake, and really build for the future.

 

[Guy Fawkes]

Mets are making it very difficult for me to keep rooting for them

Dickey was a class act and one of the best sports stories of the last decade. Why the hell do they break the bank and stick themselves with an overrated and declining David Wright, but won't go for just 2/25 with the best pitcher they have had in years?

If you decide you have to trade one, then trade them both, for fcuk's sake, and really build for the future.

If I were a Mets fan I'd be thrilled. Two top tier prospects and a mid tier prospect for a 38 yr old knuckleballer. I saw Dickey pitch three times last year and he was awesome and pitched some of the best games I've ever saw live. With that said it was a career year at age 38 and wasn't worth the money to the Mets whose best hopes are the future.

I do agree with the Wright signing being a head scratcher but they needed bodies in the seats and to keep the Mets contingent happy for a few more years. Plus him being a position player will help the younger guys in the club house as he seems like a decent role model.

 

[Knicks411]

Wright is 30 years old and Dickey is 38. He also had his best season in about 4 years and at least made me feel better about his future. Then again, Dickey is a knuckleballer so he might still be good in 3 or 4 years.

They got a good package for Dickey, which makes it easier to see him go, but not much. The dude is awesome.

The best case scenario is that the Mets wouldn't have been so financially strapped the last few years and would have had a better team on the field which would have made retaining Dickey make more sense, but unfortunately that isn't reality.

 

[moqui]

I understand why the Mets would decide to trade for prospects and build for the future. I'd happily buy into the plan . . . except, if that is the plan, the Wright deal makes no sense at all. If you decide to cash in and build for tomorrow, you should trade them both and get a bigger bonanza. And, if you are only going to trade one of them, trade Wright - you are only on the hook for 2 years with a knuckler who looks to be in his prime, rather than 8 years for a guy who is sure to decline.

Wright is going to end up being an albatross around this team's neck. Sure, everyone loves him today, but he is no more than 3 seasons away from being the next Jason Bay.

 

[Knicks411]

I understand why the Mets would decide to trade for prospects and build for the future. I'd happily buy into the plan . . . except, if that is the plan, the Wright deal makes no sense at all. If you decide to cash in and build for tomorrow, you should trade them both and get a bigger bonanza. And, if you are only going to trade one of them, trade Wright - you are only on the hook for 2 years with a knuckler who looks to be in his prime, rather than 8 years for a guy who is sure to decline.

Wright is going to end up being an albatross around this team's neck. Sure, everyone loves him today, but he is no more than 3 seasons away from being the next Jason Bay.

Certainly you never know when a guy is about to fall off the cliff, but Wright's contract isn't really that ridiculous. The way salaries are going, $17 million a year just isn't a whole lot. Unless the Wilpon's are completely screwed for the foreseeable future (which btw is possible) then even if Wright completely falls off the cliff (not likely, but you never know) the contract shouldn't hamstring them that much. The teams they should be aiming to be like financially are the Phillies and the Red Sox; they had payrolls around $170 million last year.

If the Mets are aiming to really compete in say 2014 or 15, despite Dickey being a knuckleballer and that throwing the aging curve off, I still think Wright is a better bet to be a good player for say the 2014-2017 window than Dickey is. And I wonder which guy had more trade value; Dickey was so good last year, so cheap in 2013, and still relatively cheap for the next 2 years after that he might have brought more back than Wright would have.

But if you're building for (let's call it) 2014-2017 as a window to really compete, I think Wright is going to provide more value during that period than Dickey.

Btw just to be clear Wright and Dickey are, along with Piazza, Beltran, and Reyes, maybe my 5 favorite Mets ever. So I'm not trying to knock Dickey.

Bay was really only an albatross because of 1) Bernie Madoff and 2) The mets also had a ton of money tied up in Johan Santana and he's been hurt for the last few years.

 

[CorduroyG]

Die hard met fan and I love the dickey trade. Best catching prospect in baseball and another high pitching prospect for a 38 yr old? I feel like we raped toronto, there's no way dickey matches what he did last year. And we got rid of thole and nickeas to boot. Can't kill them on the wright signing, he's extremely popular and still relatively young and had a very good year in 2012, although I don't think he'll get back to his 2006-2008 years.

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[Knicks411]

For whatever its worth, Wright's 2012 was probably better than both his 06 and 08. Offensive levels have come waaaay down

 

[kirbivore]

Jays see their opportunity in the East and are going all in. Boston gutted it's team, the Yankees are getting old. I think either the O's or Rays will fall back.