Sources: Mets up offer to Dickey
The New York Mets upped the ante Monday night in their bid to keep National League Cy Young winner R.A. Dickey in the fold.
They made a new extension offer that would add two years and $20 miilion to the $5 million Dickey is scheduled to earn next season, according to sources. The previous offer was said to be a two-year extension worth $16 million.
The new terms were first reported by Andy Martino of the New York Daily News.
The report also said the Mets could still consider trading Dickey, perhaps to the Texas Rangers — with whom the Mets had talked earlier.
Dickey is said to be seeking $31 million total over three years in an extension, according to reports.
The Mets' current offer — three years, $25 million, including this season — is the exact deal the Kansas City Royals gave free-agent right-hander Jeremy Guthrie. And Guthrie, obviously, did not win a Cy Young.
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Give Dickey the $31M he is asking. If KC can give their pitcher (who is NOT a Cy Young winner) $25M, then Dickey deserves the $31M he wants. Wilpons are being cheap again! This is NY NOT KC!
Who on the current Mets pitching staff will draw more than Dickey? A no-brainer: NO ONE!
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True that Dickey won the Cy Young, good thing that the mets at least had some win in some way in the season. But keep in mind he is a knuckle baller and he is aging. As cheap as I think the mets are with "getting" players, we have to assume what the demand is for an aging knuckle ball pitcher in an era of players like straussburg. Not to mention the young talented pitcher wheeler who is in the farm system who, lets face it, if he is as good as they say he is, then the money has to back up players like him. I believe dickey is worth something, what that something is, is beyond us as fans. and also to think what kind of season will it be for dickey in 2013? and how will the season pan out for the mets club?
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Knuckle ball pitcher can last a long time they don't beat up there arm
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Knuckleballers last forever. Sign him and be as loyal to him as he has been to us. He will help with the young pitchers. Is a good clubhouse guy and he is a draw even if we aren't winning. Besides what's another $6m? $38m less than we wasted on Bay!
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I was all in favor of the Mets trading RA if the right deal came along and I believe only reson RA is not signed is because the Mets are stilling trying to deal him and would rather have another club do the new contract.Presently a trade does not seem likely and its time for the Mets to pay the man he surely is worth 10.3 million a year for the next 3yrs.
