Matt Holliday will use the Mets to make more money elsewhere

The Mets brass met with Scott Boras last night.  Matt Holliday, of course, was the topic of choice, according to many reports.

But it’s just a tease.

Boras, Holliday’s agent, believes that he deserves “Mark Teixeira money.”  Teixeira signed a 8 year / $180 million contract with the Yankees in 2008.

With the Mets in the current predicament that they’re in (reeling after three disappointing years), they are the perfect candidate for an agent like Boras to help springboard his client into the higher pay bracket.

Boras will meet with the Mets and we will hear of numbers and contract deals.  Boras will turn around to the other teams and use these numbers to help drive up the price of Holliday.

Sure, the Mets might be able to swing a deal for Holliday as their leftfielder for the next few years, but I don’t count on it.

Do you want Bernie Madoff’s sweet personalized Mets jacket?

How awesome is this jacket?  It’s so 1980s it hurts!

But seriously, if you want this jacket, on Nov. 14 at 10 a.m. go here.  And bid, bid, bid!

Sherman: Mets could be interested in Varitek [Updated]

Update – 5:15 p.m.: Hooray!  “Mets have no interest in Varitek” by Joel Sherman.  Well isn’t that strange. Because…

Original post: Is Jason Varitek staying on the Red Sox?  NESN thinks so, Joel Sherman does not.

Either way, there is no way I would want him on the Mets next season.

Yes, the Mets need to add a catcher.  Yes, the market is fairly slim this off-season.  But no, he should not be on the Mets.  Please move along.

Hey, V-Tek, please pick up your player option for next season like NESN is reporting.  It will help me sleep better at night.

The Mets and Sesame Street [Videos]

Happy 40th birthday, Sesame Street.

Watch Keith Hernandez, Mookie Wilson and Ron Darling on the classic TV show.

Awesome.

Link: Rubin chock full of info

Adam Rubin’s latest blog post is teeming with info from day one of the GM Meetings in Chicago.

In brief…

• Matt Holliday and Jason Bay are likely too expensive.
• Mike Cameron is a longshot.
• The Mets really want to trade Luis Castillo.
• The free agent catching market is terrible.
• The Mets want to re-sign Alex Cora.
• Tim Redding and Jeremy Reed will probably be non-tendered.
• Johan Santana and Jose Reyes are healing.  Santana will pitch on his normal winter schedule, while Reyes is now walking sans-crutches.

For more, head over to Rubin’s blog.

Delgado, Tatis tabbed as Type B free agents

Carlos Delgado and Fernando Tatis have both been listed as Type B free agents by The Elias Sports Bureau.

That means if/when Delgado or Tatis sign with another team, the Mets will receive a “sandwich” draft pick in the 2010 draft for each, if they are first offered arbitration by the team.

Which is highly unlikely.

The rest of the eligible free agents from the Mets will not bring compensation back to the team.

Thanks, Superman!

Rosenthal: Castillo to Cubs being discussed [Updated]

Update – 12:02 a.m.: Well, here’s a fitting start to the rumor-mongering I so hate (yet so get sucked into all the time). The Chicago Tribune is reporting that the Blue Jays want “no part” of Bradley. And who can blame them.

Still, keep voting. It started as just a hypothetical, anyway.

Original post: Ken Rosenthal is reporting from the GM meetings in Chicago that a deal that would send Luis Castillo to the Cubs and bring Lyle Overbay to the Mets has been “discussed.”

A three-team deal that would also send Milton Bradley to Toronto has “some legs, but not much,” according to a source of Rosenthal’s.

Overbay, a left-hand hitting first baseman, shouldn’t be on the top of the priority list for the Mets. I’m not sure if they realize it, but Daniel Murphy is still on the roster. It’d be a silly move, especially with Ike Davis prospering in the minor leagues. (Overbay only has one year left on his deal, so it wouldn’t affect Davis.)

Still, I think it would be silly. What do you think? Vote below and leave your two cents in the comments.

My life is now complete…

Well, as soon as I own one of these.

I present to you, a “Northwest New York Mets Comfy Throw.”  Otherwise known as a “Mets Snuggie.”

Score!

Link: The Citi Field myth

Head on over to The Happy Recap to read user Hoovbacca’s post on the “Citi Field is where home runs go to die” myth.

Here’s an excerpt…

The interesting thing is, with a much weaker team in 2009, the stats between Shea in ‘08 and Citi in ‘09 are remarkably similar in ever category except 3B.  Which, in case you are wondering, Citi ranks 7th among parks in triples for 2009. It runs 12th for HR.

The amazing thing to me is, 2006, when the Mets came within an inning of the World Series, the Park Factor on Shea was SO pitcher heavy, that literally Shea was dead last in every category except 3B (which oddly enough was held by the previous Yankee Stadium.) In other words, Shea in 2006 was the premier pitchers park in baseball, though most years it hovered around the middle of the pack...what we would consider "pitcher friendly leaning average"

Click here to read the full post, complete with numbers and the like.  Give it a read.

Ex-Mets: Victor Zambrano’s mother kidnapped [Updated]

Update: According to Jon Heyman, Zambrano's mother has been rescued and was unharmed.

Victor Zambrano’s mother was kidnapped Sunday, according to Jon Heyman of SI.com.

Zambrano’s mother, Elizabeth Mendez Zambrano, was taken from her son’s farm on Sunday.

Scary stuff. Hopefully everything works out for Zambrano and his family.