Bill Price Has an interesting idea he is floating in his latest Bill Price - The Bitter Bill. Price believes the Mets should sign free agent 3B, 2B, LF Chone Figgins. Don’t worry about trading Castillo, but trade NY Mets darling, David Wright to Toronto for pitching ace Roy Halladay.
WOW. That may not be a bad idea. Obviously the Mets would never trade David Wright. He is the Mets version of Derek Jeter, without the clutch performances. He is the corporate mouth-piece, and Flushing’s own All American Guy.
Could you imagine a rotation beginning with Santana (L) and Halladay (R)? Name a better one-two combination in baseball.
Imagine the speed at the top of the Mets line-up with a one-two punch of Reyes and Figgins. Price compares it to the days of Dykstra-Backman (although I always preferred Wilson- Backman).
Not that this deal will ever get done, but it is intriguing. It would add more speed to a ballpark that is built for speed, not power.
Personally, Wright has concerned me since the second half of 2008. He pulls off the ball so much, that he is either grounding out weakly, or popping the ball up. And that is if he even makes contact. Each year his strikeouts have increased. In 2009 he struck out a whopping 140 times. Twenty two more times that in 2008, with almost 100 less at-bats.
I’m sure Wright will fare better with more protection next year with a (hopefully) healthy Carlos Beltran and maybe a free-agent power hitter (insert choice here), but Wright’s decline since the second half of ’08 is quite disturbing and concerning.
Metsfan73’s Dream Line-up For 2010
SS Jose Reyes
3B Chone Figgins
LF Carl Crawford
CF Carlos Beltran
RF Jeff Fracoeur
1B Daniel Murphy
C AJ Pierzynski
2B Orlando Hudson
The Bitter Bill brings up a real controversial and interesting scenario…maybe one worth considering.
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