At Baseball Prospectus, in his AL Rumors and Rumblings, John Perrotto writes:
Though the White Sox have a trade in place to ship right-hander Javier Vazquez to the Braves, they aren’t done dealing, and there are whispers that they are working on a blockbuster that would send closer Bobby Jenks and right fielder Jermaine Dye to [...]

The Chicago Cubs did not offer Kerry Wood arbitration.  This is nothing but good news for the Mets.  While signing Brian Fuentes or K-Rod would cost the Mets lots of money and their first round draft pick, signing Kerry Wood would merely cost money.  Even if the Mets don’t end up signing Wood, anything that [...]

That the Mets paid Pedro Martinez more than he was worth on the field over the life of his $53 million contact should not be news to Mets fans.  At ESPN, Bob Klapisch explained that he was overpaid.    However, the really interesting question is: by how much did the Mets overpay?
At the brilliant The Book [...]

Here’s the official Mets Press Release from Thursday:
The Mets Daniel Murphy underwent an MRI this morning at New York’s Hospital for Special Surgery and the test revealed that he has a Grade 2 Strain of the right hamstring. Murphy felt discomfort in the leg in pre-game batting practice of his Nov. 11th Arizona Fall League [...]

The Mets should sign Kerry Wood to be their bullpen ace in 2009.
Late last week, the Chicago Cubs foolish traded for Kevin Gregg and then announced that the team would not bring back Kerry Wood, sending Wood out to the open market. Wood had accepted a hometown discount in 2008 to remain a [...]

Wednesday night I wrote: “I’ll be watching the next four games of course, and dreading the last four innings. I don’t think it’s going to be great fun.” I was wrong. Thursday was great fun, at least when Jose Reyes scored the winning run. That’s a great kind of natural high.
During the [...]

I have no words of consolation for Mets fans after Tuesday’s brutal loss. Go ahead, wallow in that pain for while.

Billy Wagner will start for the B-Mets on Thursday against the Reading Phillies a 7:05.
He’s the third big leaguer to rehab with the B-Mets this year after Moises Alou and Orlando Hernandez. Hernandez, remember, re-aggravated his foot problem in his one B-Mets appearance. Hopefully Wagner returns to the Mets a more valuable [...]

The Mets new closer, Eddie Kunz can stand proud and tall of his most recent title. Actually, it has only been by standing tall, that Kunz will have a chance to close for the Mets at all.
For at least the next few days, Kunz will get a chance to be the Mets [...]

In response to my post below, about the long term roster and cost considerations that helped the Mets decide to go with Brian Stokes rather than Jonathan Niese for Saturday’s start, reader WC wrote:
And on the more practical side of things, they may have considered that throwing a soft tossing rookie lefty against a lineup [...]