Hart had a great 2007 where he was worth 4.4 WAR. Since then he's had two seasons where he's been worth 0.9 and 0.7. I think Omar's best trading partner should be Kansas City, they gave actual matter for Yuniesky Betancourt. So maybe, just maybe, we could swing Maine and Francoeur (and probably a prospect) for Meche and DeJesus.

I hate this team

Not a great pitcher, but had a little bit of an unlucky season with a BABIP of .321, .24 points higher than normal. If we can get DeJesus back in this deal without giving up much, then we should absolutely do it. Meche makes $12 million in 2010 & 2011, and DeJesus makes only $4.7 million this year and $6 million next. That would be a steal. If we really want to fleece them, I'd also try and get either Kila Ka'aihue or Johnny Giavotella back as well.

I wonder, how valuable is it having 3 backup catchers? And the biggest question I have is, even if we sign Zaun or Navarro (assuming he becomes available), what does that mean for Thole? Thole has to be starting for Buffalo next year, and should we sign a catcher who can actually start for us next year, we'll have 5 catchers, two on the Mets, Thole and one backing him up in Buffalo, and one left over. I think if that poll was posted again, asking under what circumstances should Omar keep his job, right now we'd all vote "under no circumstances."

Don't know if everyone has seen this yet, but FanGraphs is doing what Tango does for defense and allowing the fans to project what the players will do next year. Sign up, choose your favorite team, and then project what you think any player will do in 2010. There are ten categories for position players, eight for pitchers.

I think I was the first one to project Wright, Reyes, Beltran and Santana last night/early this morning. I'm curious to see how everyone projects our guys.

So many sportswriters got their panties in a bunch over Keith Law leaving Carpenter off his ballot, what about Ben Zobrist on the MVP ballot? I'm glad Joe Mauer won and would have voted for him, but Zobrist was clearly the second best position player in baseball this year, yet he was left off 17 ballots and his highest vote was 6th. The top three in AL MVP should have been Mauer, Zack Greinke the Zobrist. At least the right guy won.

I saw this on minorleagueball from poster slacker george. I didn't watch the entire thing, it's twenty minutes, but it's good stuff for anyone interest. He also has video of Evans, Stinson and a bunch of other AFL players, though those are the only two Mets I saw. Here's the link to the whole list.

Also, the videos are in HD!!!