According to Jon Heyman on si.com the Mets have turned down an offer from the Blue Jays for Roy Halladay. I didn’t think the Mets had what it took to get Doc Halladay, but apparently I was mistaken. I can’t believe I am saying his, but thank the lord Omar turned down the offer.
J.P. Riccardi’s asking price was understandably steep: Fernando Martinez, Jon Niese, Bobby Parnell, and minor league SS Ruben Tejada. That would have completely bankrupted the Mets already barren farm system and would not have made sense for a team clearly out of the playoff hunt.
Heyman reports that it was of course no sure bet Halladay would have waived his no-trade to come to Queens. Apparently, he didn’t even have the chace to contemplate such a proposition.
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I'm leaning towards the Gutless camp on this one.
I would almost always rather have the current sure thing than the maybe future thing. I highly doubt any of those guys (or all of them combined) will have the impact that Halladay does now. And if they end up being great, well so what? Halladay is great right now.
If the Yankees had traded jeter, mariano, and pettitte, they would have done what they always do which is buy the best talent in the world to fill their holes. The Yankees can afford to deplete their farm system because they don't need to develop players from within. They just go out and get good ones once they become really good (and therefore expensive). The Mets have the luxury of being in a market that supports a gigantic payroll and they too should be able to acquire the current top talent whenever they need to.
Let the other cheap teams be the de facto farm system for the Mets the way they are for the Yankees. At least then we can stop hearing about alleged five-tool players who are really really athletic guys but aren't actually good baseball players.
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