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3.28.2004
Catching up on a few things
There have been quite a few trades in the last couple of days, and I've got about half an hour before the beginning of Georgia Tech - Kansas, so I'll try to get to a few of them. New York Mets get: Ricky Gutierrez. Cleveland Indians get: a player to be named later. This is just off the wire, I'm not seeing it up everywhere just yet. As most of you probably know, Gutierrez has been hurt and making a ton of money, thanks to a three year, $11.5 million contract he signed in December of 2001. He was certainly never worth quite that much money, but if he hits like he did during his two years in Chicago with the Cubs, he's a useful player to have on the roster, given that he can handle the middle infield. The Mets hope they're not going to need much backup at second or short (with Jose Reyes and Kazuo Matsui there), but you need someone...and the Mets were going with Joe McEwing. I don't know what they can reasonably expect to get out of Gutierrez, but he's apparently healthy and having a good spring, so assuming they're not giving up anything of note here, it's fine. The Indians are paying a large part of the remaining money on the contract, though I've yet to see a precise figure. New York Mets get: Matt Ginter. Chicago White Sox get: Timo Perez. The Mets' outfield is pretty much set, with Cliff Floyd in left, Mike Cameron in center and a Karim Garcia/Shane Spencer platoon in right. Roger Cedeno is currently slated to be the fifth outfielder, and his contract probably means he's going to keep that job regardless of his production. So there wasn't room for Timo Perez. That being said, the Mets are getting back very little here. Ginter's hasn't been good in any of his major league trials (2002 was as close as he's gotten to an asset, and even then he was nothing special). I guess it's possible that he'll make the Mets, operating out of the back end of a pretty weak bullpen. The Mets may well know something that's not obvious from looking at his numbers, but it looks to me like they're just giving Timo Perez a chance to play somewhere, since it wasn't likely to happen at Shea. He'll be a decent backup outfielder in Chicago. - |