Baseball Musings: Delgado to the Mets?

November 23, 2005

Delgado to the Mets?

Jon Heyman of the NY Newsday is reporting the Mets and Marlins have a deal to send Carlos Delgado to New York.

The Mets have reached an agreement for a trade to bring Carlos Delgado from the Marlins, Newsday has learned. The trade won't be finalized until medical examinations of the players involved are complete and commissioner Bud Selig signs off on the deal.

The Mets have agreed to send righthanded pitching prospect Yusmeiro Petit and young first baseman Mike Jacobs to the Marlins for Delgado, according to someone familiar with the deal. As part of the deal, the Marlins will send $7 million back to the Mets to cover part of the $48 million remaining on Delgado's contract.

So Delgado becomes the replacement for Piazza's bat, and the Marlins continue to pick up good, young prospects. While Jacobs is nothing special, Petit's had a very good minor league career. The Marlins keep picking up young pitchers with lots of strikeouts and few walks; you have to like that strategy. In a couple of years they could end up with a staff very similar to Willis, Burnett and Beckett at a fraction of the cost.

It looks like the Mets are going to make good use of their 2006 tax break. If they can land Wagner, you're looking at a team with Beltran, Delgado, Pedro, Wagner, Floyd and Wright. Based on their 2005 win shares, that's 47 wins right there. If Beltran's woes were caused by injury, and he's healthy in 2006, that could even be higher.

Posted by David Pinto at 10:52 AM | Trades | TrackBack (0)

Comments

t's not like the Mets are blowing out the budget to compete. The Mets have freed up $16M + $5M + $6M by turning over Piazza, Looper & Cameron respectively.

With the Marlins eating half Delgado's '06 salary, and Wagner at $12M + Beltran's raise, that's still $6M less than '05.

Of course, now they'll go and blow that on something like Ramon Hernandez...

Posted by: bmc at November 23, 2005 11:23 AM

I'm not convinced Jacobs won't do well in Florida. He hit 11 HRs last September and 32 in the minors before that.

Delgado is as close to a sure 30/100 as you can find, but I'd have said that about Thome going into last season. Or any other veteran with an established record fo performance.

I like the trade for the Marlins more than the Mets.

Posted by: Eric at November 23, 2005 12:17 PM

If the Mets are spending like crazy now, why didn't they do it years ago? Why did they cheap out with the Benny Agbayanis of the world?

Posted by: Yankee Despiser at November 23, 2005 12:36 PM

New TV network

Posted by: JC at November 23, 2005 12:52 PM

And they get the 2006 tax break that David mentions in the article.

Posted by: sabernar at November 23, 2005 12:56 PM

It is a Marlin Win. While both sides benefit, unlike the awful Kazmir/Zambrano exchange, The Marlin had to move an expensive, NY hating, aging player. That they extracted Petit in the exchange leads me extended a permanent offer to Omar, come to my card game. You can't read your hand, or the table. Regarding the network, that's obviously a factor. From a marketing standpoint you would think they would be somewhat racially sensitive. Once they sign Hernadez, Wright and Floyd will be respective tokens. It's becoming an issue, unfortunately. It should not be, as long as the talent in betters talent out. Thus far that has been the case.

Posted by: Dan at November 23, 2005 01:07 PM

The Mets DID spend like crazy a few years back. They were either 2nd or 3rd in payroll in 2001 (behind the obvious Yanks, and maybe the Red Sox, but I can't remember). Nevertheless, they had one of the highest payrolls, and yet managed to achieve a notably high level of suckitude...oh Mo Vaughn, where have ye gone? Roberto Alomar, thy cliff is the Shea Loge. They finally cut it back and simultaneously developed some high-end minor league talent, some of which has percolated up the majors, and rest of which has been used as trade bait. The Mets, with their current core of in-house players (Wright, Beltran, Floyd, Pedro, Benson, Glavine), feel that they can compete this year. Their peripheral numbers last year were way better than their W/L, and they should expect bounce-back performance from Beltran and improvement from Wright. I think they feel that with a few moves, and a masher, they're in the thick of it for the division. This is true, and especially so if they can persuade Wagner to come to Shea.

Posted by: Dave S. at November 23, 2005 02:00 PM

Assuming the Delgado deal goes thru, and they sign Wagner for $10M per, the Mets will have $63M tied up in 2008 on 5 players who'll be in their mid to late 30s (Pedro, Delgado, Belran will be in his 30s, Kris Benson, and Wagner).

Then figure significant arbitration raises for David Wright, Jose Reyes and possibly even Xavier Nady. That could balloon up to $80M for 8 players.

Minaya overpaid big time for Delgado, overpaid big time for Nady, and will probably overpay big time for a catcher. Thank goodness for that new cable network.

Posted by: Mike at November 23, 2005 03:18 PM

This is a stupid, stupid trade. In a couple of years Jacobs will be better than DelGado and to give up Petit was just downright awful.

Posted by: MassMetFan at November 23, 2005 03:53 PM

AP is reporting that the Phillies are trading Jim Thome and cash to the White Sox for Aaron Rowand.

Posted by: MAW at November 23, 2005 04:14 PM

grrr....the mets are going to regret this....jacobs could hit and play defense....with some polishing he could easily be a good player....i dont understand why Delgado would come to the mets now even after spurning them 10 months ago and dissing the organization

Posted by: Prem at November 24, 2005 06:33 PM

jacobs for delgado. a ridiculous wasteful trade. jacobs with passion and the best power swing i have seen in many years. mike was brought up as an afterthought and immediately produced with his bat. right after his first ab, a three run homer on the second pitch thrown,his manager had decided to send him back to the minors. pedro martinez suggested otherwise. jacobs stayed and showed what he cold do. the mets management didn't even know who jacobs was. by next may mr,s manaya and randolph will be blaming each other. we lose!!!

Posted by: ed wagner at November 25, 2005 11:59 PM

two words: Mo Vaughn

Posted by: colin at November 26, 2005 12:24 PM

a word of advice for the ny yankees. GET MIKE JACOBS FROM THE MARLINS!!!.

Posted by: ed wagner at November 26, 2005 03:15 PM

Keep up the great work on your blog. Best wishes WaltDe

Posted by: WaltDe at August 31, 2006 12:49 PM

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