2009 Mets Season Thread

[Rome]

Ibanez and a stud middle reliever or Jason Bay.

Geniuous!

[mpmcgraw]

Yea that Brandon Lyon is a real stud!

[PhillyPhreak54]

Mets Near a Deal With Ryota Igarashi
By DAVID WALDSTEIN
The New York Mets

The Mets are close to signing Ryota Igarashi, a Japanese pitcher, to a two-year deal, according to a person briefed on the situation. Yes, they need an outfielder to hit in the middle of the batting order and another starting pitcher, but they also needed to improve their bullpen.

Igarashi, a 30-year-old right-handed reliever, pitched for the Yakult Swallows in the Japanese Central League since 1999 and was scouted heavily this year by many major league teams, including the Mets, the Yankees, the Red Sox, the Mariners and the Indians. Most of those scouts projected him as an effective late-inning reliever at the major league level.

With the Mets, Igarashi will have a chance to become Francisco Rodriguez's set-up man. The Mets lost Billy Wagner and J.J. Putz from last year's patchwork assemblage of late-inning relievers and needed to upgrade that area.

Last season Igarashi was 3-2 with a 3.19 earned run average in 56 games. Other than 2004, when he had 37 saves and a 2.66 E.R.A., he has not been the Swallows' primary closer, but he has excelled in the set-up role.

[PhillyGirl]

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4779416

[Rome]

66 million for 4 years for bay?

lolololol

if he hits 25 home runs playing 81 games in that place i'd be shocked.

[BigEd76]

even better....5/$80M

[PhillyPhreak54]

Omar Minaya, thank you.

[ice grillin you]

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=jp-metsbay122909&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

[PhillyGirl]

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=jp-metsbay122909&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

[Sgt PSN]

in summation, minaya traded bay in 2002 for lou collier and now thinks he's worth 66mil.  bay is a nice player but he's going to look horrible chasing balls around in that grand canyon of an outfield the mets have.  nice job omar.  now that steve phillips has a penchant for banging fatties, i guess it's safe to say that minaya will again follow in his footsteps and will be working for bbtn after getting fired from the mets in the next year.  and then he'll farg kirstie alley and get canned from there as well.

[Sgt PSN]

this is farging priceless:

Year    Payroll   Rec./NL East finish

2000   $79.7M    94-68, 2nd*
2001   $93.6M    82-80, 3rd
2002   $94.6M    75-86, 5th
2003   $117.1M   66-95, 5th
2004   $96.6M    71-91, 4th
2005   $101.3M   83-79, 3rd
2006   $101M     97-65, 1st*
2007   $115.2M   88-74, 2nd
2008   $137.7M   89-73, 2nd
2009   $149.3M   70-92, 4th

spent all that loot and 1 division title and 2 playoff appearance to show for it.  lmfao. 

[ice grillin you]

Oliver Perez is as reliable as an iPhone signal.

[MDS]

who is playing first base? isnt delgado dead?

[BigEd76]

Murphy

[Sgt PSN]

dale or charlie?