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Originally Posted by Big Vito 22
The Mets' offer to Jason Bay has been on the table for 10 days now and he hasn't even given them a response.
I'm guessing he takes it once he realizes for sure that nobody else is making an offer...but it has me starting to buy into what many of the baseball writers have been saying - top free agents don't seem to have an interest in playing for the Mets. First Lackey wouldn't even agree to meet with the Mets and see what their offer was before he decided on Boston. And now this whole Bay thing - could be that he doesn't view them as contenders, could also be the ballpark...which I REALLY don't think will have that big of an effect on his numbers, unless he's too big of a pussy to play left field there.
Probably doesn't help that the Phillies are viewed as not only the class of the division, but of the entire NL...and they got a guy who is at minimum a Top 5 pitcher in baseball.
I'm thinking the Mets need to just step up now and give Bay an ultimatum. This is getting ridiculous, especially since he was meant to respond to them on Friday.
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Mets are starting to become similar to the Yankees where agents know the Mets tend to overbid or be part of bidding wars and use them to help increase the price of their clients. The main difference is while Yankees can start bidding wars, players still want to play for them while most use the Mets as a cheap way to increase their salaries for other teams.
12-21-2009, 07:48 PM
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