The Hot Stove League is heating up and Mets fans are anxious for their team to sign David Wright and RADickey43 to long term deals. DWright was runner up in the Gold Glove award and many including myself felt he was a more deserving candidate.
The news today out of California and reported on MLB Tonight the Mets are shopping RA Dickey, who was just named a finalist for the Cy Young Award. The Mets have exercised the teams option on both Dickey and Wright for the 2013 season and many feel it maybe the best time to trade Dickey who will be 38 soon. Baseball insiders also realize RA Dickey could probable pitch another five years easy.
The Mets have many holes to fill and trading Dickey sounds great on paper, but where do the Mets get the 20 wins RA Dickey brings to the team if they trade him? The Mets must know Dickey gives them lots of innings and pitches every 5 days day in and day out. Finding someone who could do that the next five years will not be easy to replicate.
Dickey, is an interesting phenomena in baseball, a knuckelballer can pitch well past the prime of other pitchers and filling holes on the field is not the only Mets issue, filling seats is another and trading one of Mets fans favorite players will have to be worth the loss of not just 20 games but a man the New York community cares about because of his good deeds.
The same can be said about David Wright. He is the face of the Mets and other than Dickey the only other player of notable distinction is Johan Santana. The Mets do not have any other marque players to market to the millions of baseball fans in Gotham.
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