soxmuscle

This shouldn't be news to anybody, I told you Santana would be traded to the Mets over a week ago.

The Mets will be an excellent ball club next year.

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IainDaniel

Only to choke again like usual

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Michael Jordan

A Black Guy

I'll be working spring training this year, I'll try to keep up to date on things.

I Are Baboon

This is good news for several reasons:

1) The Red Sox keep all their young talent (and they have a lot of it)
C) The Yankee fuck nachos don't get him
3) It gets Santana the hell out of the American League


Everyone wins! Well, except the Yankees, but they suck anyway.

ReproMan

Fuck this shit. I'm a Phillies fan and one of my drivers is a Mets fan. Fuck.

min0 lee

Good news for the Mets, he'll do real well in the NL.
I don't know much about the prospects the Mets used for the trade...which is good.

P.S.
The Twins originally wanted Reyes..

Lets Go Mets!

min0 lee

Driver as in Limo driver?

min0 lee

Yanks still win, they don't have to lose any of the players they were saving.
Santana, I believe doesn't have a winning record against the team that matters....Boston.

I would rather stick with the 2 young guns than settle for Santana.

ReproMan

I wish.

Delivery drivers.

Goodfella9783

The Mets are always the best or second best on paper. They better make the WS this year. I've picked them to be in it the past two years

min0 lee

Twins agree to deal Santana to Mets for prospects - USATODAY.com

The Mets paid a price in prospects to land Santana, agreeing to send the Twins outfielder Carlos Gomez and pitchers Phil Humber, Deolis Guerra and Kevin Mulvey.
"We are hoping to bring this to a close, soon. Nothing to announce today," Twins general manager Bill Smith said in an e-mail to USA TODAY.

The deal would give the Mets the much-needed ace at the front of their rotation. Santana won the American League Cy Young Award in 2004 and 2006 and is 93-44 lifetime. He went 15-13 with a 3.33 ERA for the Twins last season. Santana has struck out at least 235 batters each of the past four seasons.

While the deal drains much of the talent out of the Mets' farm system, they did manage to hold on to top prospect Fernando Martinez, an outfielder. Instead, they headed the package with Gomez, who turned 22 in December and spent 58 games with the Mets last year.
Gomez is what scouts like to call a five-tool player, a combination of offensive ability that includes power and speed as well as an above-average defensive game and a strong arm. He has worked to cut down a strikeout rate that was high during the early part of a minor league career that began in 2004 after the Mets signed him out of the Dominican Republic. He made his major league debut last May and hit .232.

Humber, 25, is the Mets' 2004 first-round pick who has made five major league appearances, including one start, over the past two seasons. He won 11 games at Class AAA last season, his first full year after having Tommy John surgery in 2005.

Santana would give the Mets the best rotation in the NL East after they missed out on the division title by one game thanks to a historic September collapse. He'd likely be joined by Pedro Martinez, John Maine, Oliver Perez and Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez.

The Twins, meanwhile, would see yet another young star they produced leave the organization. Their Gold Glove outfielder, Torii Hunter, left for the Los Angeles Angels this offseason. Gomez would be a candidate to replace him in center field.

With Santana gone, there is a big opening in the Twins' rotation. Francisco Liriano is on track to return after missing last season following elbow surgery, but Carlos Silva signed with Seattle as a free agent, leaving youngsters Scott Baker, Boof Bonser and Kevin Slowey as the starters with the most experience.
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ReproMan

Heh, I was pretty pleased with last year's collapse.

min0 lee

If Pedro's healthy and El Duque somehow finds the fountain of youth during the post season.....well then.

A Black Guy

We talked about Guerra this summer on here. He was the Mets' strongest pitching prospect but still a couple years out.

I Are Baboon

No, they still suck.

min0 lee

I can't say anything this year...

min0 lee

You think this was a good trade?
How good are these kids?

I Are Baboon

Peter Gammons said the Mets traded 4 of their top 10 prospects, but kept their #1 pitching prospect and their #1 position player prospect. The vibe from Twins fans (based on what I heard on ESPNEWS) is that the Twins got ROBBED. The Red Sox were offering MLB-ready young studs in Lester or Ellsbury.

min0 lee

I just hope he doesn't turn into a Frank Viola.

I Are Baboon

Hey, Frank Viola was good!

min0 lee

Till he became a Met.

I Are Baboon

The first game I went to in Boston, it was Sox vs Twins...Frank Viola vs Roger Clemens. Sox won 17-7.

min0 lee

With the Twins he was throwing blanks, with the Mets..

I may remember that game.

spstan29

It sounds like the Mets made a really good deal. I don't know what the twins were thinking. They could have gotten a better deal 2 months ago.

min0 lee

True, but the Yanks were not budging and the deadline was around the corner.