Dear Fred Wilpon,
Let me begin by saying that I am one of the nine Mets fans on the planet, actually in the galaxy. While your ownership has brought us the Amazins' of 1986, it has also brought us a slew of bad free agent signings, bad trades, and unprecedented end of season meltdowns. But there is hope and you have a tremendous opportunity to hold on to the continued loyalty of all nine of us.
RESIGN JOSE REYES!!
Despite your best efforts to alienate what is your best player with asinine comments in an SI article, he has still expressed interest in spending his entire career with one franchise, yours! You were right he should not get "Carl Crawford" money when he becomes a free agent, he should get more. Reyes has become what we all thought he was... the most electrifying position player in Major League Baseball.
Check the stats:
.349 batting average
.394 on base percentage
.528 slugging percentage
117 hits
21 doubles
15 triples
3 homeruns
64 runs
29 stolen bases
The guy is doing everything for the team short of selling hot dogs and beer in Citi Field. Give your GM one mission this off season, since you ruined any chance of signing him during the season, and mandate that he keep Reyes a Met. Give him the money! This is different than your other free agent blunders in that Reyes is only 28 years old. Not some aging veteran whose best years were had before you paid him.
Doing this will give us a small ray of hope of the franchise recovering from the free fall it has been in since losing game seven of the NLCS to the Cardinals in 2006. If not than please go ahead and just give the team to Bernie Madoff, like you did the rest of your money.
Sincerely,
Met Fan #7 of 9
P.S. - Or you could just sell the team to a competent owner.
I don't really follow baseball but even I know the Mets organization has been run by the village idiot.
ReplyDeleteAgree for the most part, however, everyone has a price. If they were to trade him, make it worth it. I love Reyes. He's the best #1 spot in the game, but we do have a lot of holes to fill, and if we can plug up two or three of those holes giving up one player, it would be worth it. ---Mets Fan #8 of 9
ReplyDeleteThe only problem with trading him is will we get enough. Because Wilpon is a jackwagon and basically made it impossible to resign him teams will not be willing to part with numerous prospects. The good news is if we can't resign him they will get 2 compensatory 1st round picks. It's reaching I know but what else can we do but reach at this point.
ReplyDeleteOne problem with that - Reyes has done Jack squat (relative to his salary) every year until this one. This screams Andruw Jones or Adrian Beltre to me.
ReplyDeleteBut, Hey - At least it wouldn't be like overpaying for a guy you DON'T know. *cough*Mo Vaughn*cough*