Please trade Dickey!

[JeTsFan4eVeR]

He is 38 years old...this is called selling high...Sandy, if you are any kind of smart, trade him now! Get a quality prospect or two in return...don't be stupid here. Please make our team better with some younger guys!

[MetsFanatic19]

He will either be traded or signed. Expect a trade soon. They won't mess it up because they've been in this situation before, but because Dickey deserves it.

[fanofclendennon]

He is 38 years old...this is called selling high...Sandy, if you are any kind of smart, trade him now! Get a quality prospect or two in return...don't be stupid here. Please make our team better with some younger guys!

Seven years from now, if he's still on top of his game and the prospects we received for him all failed to pan out, will you concede you were wrong?

[MetsFanatic19]

Seven years from now, when Dickey is retired and the Mets are still signing "affordable placeholders" with no young players becoming the core of the team, will you think resigning Dickey was still the right idea?

It could go both ways.

[fanofclendennon]

Seven years from now, when Dickey is retired and the Mets are still signing "affordable placeholders" with no young players becoming the core of the team, will you think resigning Dickey was still the right idea?

It could go both ways.

The two aren't mutually exclusive. Everyone seems to have bought into the concept that keeping Dickey will prohibit them from getting other players.

It shouldn't.

If they can get an everyday impact player or two in exchange for Dickey I'm all for it. I just see them getting a handful of mediocres who will serve no purpose other than to keep us from paying a high salaried player, e.g. RA Dickey.

Interesting, I heard Sandy on the phone today talking about how 2 of the players they were considering when they signed Hairston a year ago are still on the market.

But Hairston himself is no longer being considered because he has played himself into a higher market.

What Sandy is saying is that they are no longer interested in signing players who can help win baseball games. Just players who are affordable.

See, Hairston is still a 4th outfielder. The problem is that he's now a GOOD 43th outfielder and if he's good, well, we don't have room for him on our team.

Should be a fun season at the Five and Dime otherwise known as Cit Field.

[bootleg42]

The two aren't mutually exclusive. Everyone seems to have bought into the concept that keeping Dickey will prohibit them from getting other players.

It shouldn't.

If they can get an everyday impact player or two in exchange for Dickey I'm all for it. I just see them getting a handful of mediocres who will serve no purpose other than to keep us from paying a high salaried player, e.g. RA Dickey.

Interesting, I heard Sandy on the phone today talking about how 2 of the players they were considering when they signed Hairston a year ago are still on the market.

But Hairston himself is no longer being considered because he has played himself into a higher market.

What Sandy is saying is that they are no longer interested in signing players who can help win baseball games. Just players who are affordable.

See, Hairston is still a 4th outfielder. The problem is that he's now a GOOD 43th outfielder and if he's good, well, we don't have room for him on our team.

Should be a fun season at the Five and Dime otherwise known as Cit Field.

Well said. This is why I didn't even care when they re-signed David Wright because I knew they weren't going to be getting any other relevant players. It's just going to be the same mediocre 4th place Mets featuring David Wright.....

I wanted to trade Dickey and Wright to get back legit pieces we could have used for the future to go along with our pitchers about to come up, but the Mets decided not to go that route. They instead decided to stay in 4th place.

[Dugmet]

Well said. This is why I didn't even care when they re-signed David Wright because I knew they weren't going to be getting any other relevant players. It's just going to be the same mediocre 4th place Mets featuring David Wright.....

I wanted to trade Dickey and Wright to get back legit pieces we could have used for the future to go along with our pitchers about to come up, but the Mets decided not to go that route. They instead decided to stay in 4th place.

Well, yes. In 2013 that seems true, though I think .500 is within the realm of possibility. Not likely, but possible. Sometimes patience is the right course of action.

[ZHAKIDD532]

I have a feeling RA isn't going anywhere. And I think he is going to maintain a high level of production for awhile. Not that he'll win the Cy Young every year, but he'll be a very good starter for the foreseeable future.

[JeTsFan4eVeR]

If he is going 7 years from now and wins another CY award, I will concede

[fanofclendennon]

If he is going 7 years from now and wins another CY award, I will concede

Ok.

And three years from now?

[Claymation]

Ok.

And three years from now?

I know this joke.

[fanofclendennon]

I know this joke.

Takes one to know one.

Booyah!

[SILVER SEAVER]

The Mets have three known commodities in Dickey, Niese and Harvey and one unkown in Wheeler. I don't see them trading three who haven't even come close to their primes. Dickey could pitch even better in 2013 than he did in 2012 but with the way this team is constructed right now it would be a waste of Dickey's efforts to do it for a fourth place team again. Sell and build for the future while you have Dickey's stock high.

[metsfaninSTL]

Will a deal happen tomorrow during the last day of the winter meetings or will it be later?

[YoungStuna28]

Will a deal happen tomorrow during the last day of the winter meetings or will it be later?

After Greinke signs or never