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| Mets should go after Snyder
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Mets get: Chris Snyder
Diamondbacks get: Nick Evans and Eddie Kunz
Why it should happen:
While Snyder has been sidelined with a lower back strain, Miguel Montero has been a house-of-fire, batting .380 with five homers and 14 RBI in July. He's been so good that Snyder may be relegated to a bench role when he returns from the disabled list later this week.
"Snydes is still rehabbing so I still have a few days to mull over what I'm going to do, said manager A.J. Hinch. "But he's (Montero) certainly staked his claim to significant playing time."
Snyder, 28, just signed a contract extension with the Diamondbacks over the winter. He's owed a little less than $1.5 million for the rest of 2009, $4.75 million in 2010 and $5.75 million in 2011. His contract includes a club option in 2012 for $6.75 million, with a $750,000 buyout.
Meanwhile, Brian Schneider is in the last year of his deal with the Mets. The Mets have no real major-league ready catchers in their system, as Josh Thole, while batting .337/.405/.441 with Double-A Binghamton, is still fine-tuning his skills as a backstop. There isn't much hope among impending free agents (Bengie Molina, Ramon Hernandez, etc.).
Snyder would give the Mets a young catcher with fine defensive skills (he has thrown out 32.7% of would-be basestealers in his career and managed a perfect fielding percentage in 2008), who projects as a 20-homer guy from the right side of the plate with a full season of at-bats (.737 career OPS).
As for the Diamondbacks, they would get a 21-year-old power bat who has crushed lefties to the tune of a .919 OPS in the minors. He could contribute at first base or the outfield as soon as this season. Meanwhile, Kunz is a supreme groundball pitcher (67.4% in the minors), who can ably step in if the Diamondbacks decide to trade Jon Rauch and/or Chad Qualls. Considering how much Snyder is being paid, the Mets might not even have to give up this much.
Will it happen?
Probably not before the deadline, but Snyder is sure to be dealt before next season.
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The muts have so many holes it wouldnt even matter. They got one good pitcher in the rotation, pen sucks, too many old players on the team, manager is a clown, GM is terrible. They should just join the expos already and close shop
hey - congratulations on falling into the trap that the rest of the sports media has put forth for the the people who dosen't watch this team day in and day out like I do. you probably follow and believe what steve philips says too. oh and the "muts" - wow how original. got any titanic jokes as well. figure out what the hell you're talking about first so that you can actually have an intelligent comment in the future.
as for the actual topic at hand - I can see this as a good idea. brian's a good catcher, but the best way he can be used is the way right now - platoon with omir. the thing is, the franchise is pretty much in love with their prospects, so someone over there will have to change the minds of some people to make this work - ie, jeff for ryan trade. but more importantly it all depends on who is on the team for 2010 will ultimately be the deciding factor.
I watch them on a regular basis so I guess that gives me the right to comment - "Mutts" is too flattering - The organization is a joke - The idiot son is at the controls and has not a clue - about baseball, or if the papers are right, about money (see Madoff) - Bernazard is making a fool out of the minor leagues and can't be fired because he's a bud of Jeff's - The Wilpons have a love affair with players the same age as the old man - The kid can't keep his nose out of the clubhouse and therefore no sense of team is allowed to develope - Remove Santana from the team and the Nats are far superior - They've built a stadium dedicated to a team that presently plays in a city 3000 miles away. The simple fact is that the problems are in the owner's suite and unless there's anothe Bernie Madoff on the Wilpon's horizon, nothing's going to change.
hey fubar, i watch "los mets" day in and day out too. If you don't think the manager and gm are clowns, then what are they? Their organizational depth is comical at best. Their medical evaluations are dangerous (church's concussions, delgado flying cross country to get messages, reyes turning a day-to-day calf injury into season threatening hamstring injury, beltran turning a small bone bruise into a larger one, and now sheffield's cramp is a strained hamstring). Their fundamental skills are atrocious. Did I miss anything?
As for Snyder, a catching tandem of him and Santos would be pretty good And as DJ said Evans would probably be enough to get him.
i didn't say that exactly. i'm just sick and tired of people talking down on this team already. i know the frustrations we have for this team - i feel it too. and yes i really don't like how management is going about with the franchise. i just don't want to be like some of the yankee "fans" who when all hell breaks loose they jump ship and attack the team relentlessly - and if you live here in the tri-state area, you know what i'm taking about. i'm sticking with this team no matter what - and by team i mean the players on the field. not those dumbassess who think they know that they're doing in the front office. i'm just trying to keep a positive vibe and maybe, just maybe a miracle can happen this time. i'm hoping that the win today might push them in the right direction.
also - if we don't make it, as long as the philies don't win the WS again, i'll be content.