Not that I care if we sign Sanchez or not but eventually they're going to have to just realize that in order to get good pitchers you're going to have to pay high salaries. We have seen what a mess this team is when they go cheap on the rotation.

Not that I care if we sign Sanchez or not but eventually they're going to have to just realize that in order to get good pitchers you're going to have to pay high salaries. We have seen what a mess this team is when they go cheap on the rotation.

 

Or they can develop prospects and trade for more prospects and make us wait a few years before they become competitive.

Not that I care if we sign Sanchez or not but eventually they're going to have to just realize that in order to get good pitchers you're going to have to pay high salaries. We have seen what a mess this team is when they go cheap on the rotation.

 

Your best bet is to draft well, or trade for a top pitching prospect, then lock him up while he is still under team control. (see: Kershaw, Verlander, Cain, Felix, etc etc) It seems like the teams overpaying out the ass for starting pitching on the market tend to get burned more then they get rewarded.

Geez - He's looking for 6/$90??? Yeah, well - People in hell are looking for ice water, too. But . . . maybe . . . just maybe if there are others who make deasl like the one we made with Blackie, or The Lemon it could happen!

Just think what Francisco Liriano would be looking for if he had actually put together 8-10 really great starts for the White Sox instead of what he did.

Not that I care if we sign Sanchez or not but eventually they're going to have to just realize that in order to get good pitchers you're going to have to pay high salaries. We have seen what a mess this team is when they go cheap on the rotation.

 

Or they can develop prospects and trade for more prospects and make us wait a few years before they become competitive.

 

The Twins are pretty good at that.

We can not wait, we have to pay the price for a top 5 FA pitcher now, or the team will be shot for the next 3 years.

Not that I care if we sign Sanchez or not but eventually they're going to have to just realize that in order to get good pitchers you're going to have to pay high salaries. We have seen what a mess this team is when they go cheap on the rotation.

 

Your best bet is to draft well, or trade for a top pitching prospect, then lock him up while he is still under team control. (see: Kershaw, Verlander, Cain, Felix, etc etc) It seems like the teams overpaying out the ass for starting pitching on the market tend to get burned more then they get rewarded.

 

baker,blackburn , and slowey?

just a thought , but if the mets are looking to dump salary , why not trade hermsen and boyd for santana and 15 million?

just a thought , but if the mets are looking to dump salary , why not trade hermsen and boyd for santana and 15 million?

 

Guerra for Santana would be sweetly ironic.