Santana, Mr. Met of the Future

Instead of just commenting on the millions of stories on “teh interweb” about the Mets trading for Johan Santana, I will just list a few and save myself the Carpal Tunnel …
Mets Win the Santana Sweepstakes – ESPN.com
Santana Going to Mets – CNNSI.com
Santana to Mets – Yahoo! Sports
Newest Mr. Met – FoxSports.com
Mets Reach Deal to [...]

The offers are in, it’s decision time for the Twins.

Over at ESPN Buster Olney writes:
“Some officials engaged in the talks strongly believed that Santana will land with the Mets. Early Tuesday, Mets executives are quietly hopeful that they could land the left-hander with a package of players, so long as the Twins backed off their insistence that shortstop Jose Reyes be included in the [...]

Mets are the Frontrunner for Santana

In his blog for Newsday, Ken Davidoff writes that “The Mets are undoubtedly the most motivated buyers in the race for Santana, and they might very well be the only team willing to both give a package of young players and commit to a lucrative contract extension with Santana”.
In my previous article I cited a [...]

Do the Mets need Santana?

Over at the Bleacher Report, Johnny Shea does a nice writeup contemplating if the Mets need Johan Santana.
… on a personal note, I wish my parents had named me Shea, or at least used it as my middle name …
“They need the pitcher the most, and Omar Minaya will quietly lay out a deal [...]