Wilpon Turns Steinbrenneresque

This weeks New Yorker has a good story on The Wilpons by Jeffery Toobin.

No doubt some of his quotes will keep the NY sports talk stations going for the next month.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/05/30/110530fa_fact_toobin

Jose Reyes: "He thinks he's going to get Carl Crawford money," "He's had everything wrong with him. He won't get it."

Carlos Beltran: "We had some schmuck in New York who paid him based on that one series. He's 65 to 70 percent of what he was."

David Wright: "Really good kid. A very good player. Not a superstar."

 

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[blue]Wow, with evaluations like that, I'm surprised the Mets aren't on top![/blue]

I think it was Bill James who once said that the worst teams have the tendency to blame their best players for their plight, as opposed to focusing on the four to seven other weak links in the lineup.

 

Fred and Jeff Wilpon were seen on the mound at Citi Field today trying to save a few dollars.

 

The Wilpons: "We fell for Bernie's line of shit. How ------ stupid are we?"

 

He was right about everything he said about his players, but he obviously shouldn't have said it out loud.

 

Except they made money.

 

Luppy probably has a notebook fully of juicy quotes from the Wilpons, garnered while knocking the little white ball around the "rock pile".

 

Heard Jeffrey Toobin on the radio. He said that the Wilpons reached out to The New Yorker so they could tell their their side of story.

Guess they did not expect the blow back.

 

Well-understand that on the books, they did, indeed.

There's easily another 5,000 well-chosen New Yorker words to be written about
that little wrinkle.

 

not really. not sure who wants him but based on what they both can do when healthy Reyes deserves as much or more than Crawford. actually Crawford really doesn't even have that much more power. he usually hits for a higher average, but he's a left fielder. Reyes is a SS and is definitely above average defensively.

 

Reyes probably deserves that much just because this isn't the late 1990s anymore, and the offensive standard at the position has downgraded. He's one of the few guys left who can hit. It shows up in his Baseball Prospectus PECOTA comparisons - Jimmy Rollins and Rafael Furcal are his top two matches.

Personally, I think a long-term deal for him would be foolish, but someone will probably give it to him. Ideally, if you were a team, you'd probably want to sign him to a Red Sox 2010 Adrian Beltre deal - Heavy on incentives and a decent base salary, short-term contract.