Dec. 28: Reading the tea leaves
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There’s no need any more for the Mets to give Boras because the Rangers did. One team is enough. Boras won’t be intimidated by a deadline. I don’t expect Boras to cave and grab the Rangers’ offer, without first giving the Mets and the other players a chance to beat it. Given that, the Mets will have a safety net.
If Boras doesn’t bite on the Rangers, that narrows the field for the Mets. Then it’s only San Francisco and Seattle. I would worry more about the Giants because they have some flexibility with Bonds getting a lot of his salary deferred, and with Jason Schmidt and Moises Alou gone.
Plus, the Giants are a Coastal team as Zito wants, and he doesn’t have to leave home.
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mlb.com is reporting that the Rangers have been informed that Zito has declined their offer and they expect him to sign with the Giants.
http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20061228&content_id=1768001&vkey=hotstove2006&fext=.jsp
7/126 with an option for year 8? on a team that may not win 75 games WITH him? Holy moses, this is one screwed up offseason..thank you omar for being patient on this one…it woulda been nice to have him, but when you need more than one starter, this was not the guy to blow a seven or 8 year load on…
jb
To JB …
No way he's worth that. The Mets will be fine without him.
I was all for getting Zito, but I'll agree that he's not worth $126 million ($144, if the option kicks in for Year Eight).
As for whether the Mets will be fine without him, they still need to find a way to make up the 300 innings covered last year by Trachsel and Pedro. That's about 20% of their entire workload.