Can the Mets Make a Deal for Marcus Thames?

There’s been a lot of talk about potential trades to get through Moises Alou’s hernia injury. We’ve discussed Thames, Nady, and Jay Payton as potential targets for Omar Minaya. The Tigers seem to make the most sense as a trading partner. They’ve got a great offense, pretty good starters, and a questionable bullpen. The Mets are looking to deal some of their relievers so working out a trade for Marcus Thames seems natural.

I got some good information about Thames from Blake over at The Spot Starters blog. It’s a great site for Tigers information and lots of MLB commentary. Take a look at the site. Blake gave me his impressions of Marcus Thames:

On Thames, he’s a nice guy to have. He’s primarily an OF and DH but just starting playing first base last year. He’ll never be confused with a Gold Glover but he gets the job done and makes up for it with his bat. Obviously he hits for some serious power, that’s his game. As someone who watches a lot of games though I really think that most good pitchers can get him out almost all of the time. He’s one of those guys. It feels like he beats up on shady pitching but I never feel confident with him at the plate in the 9th inning.

It sounds like he could be really valuable to the Mets if he can play the corner outfield positions and first base. He could even platoon with Church in right when Alou gets back. At this point in Delgado’s career, it looks like we’ll need a solid backup there as well.

Marcus Thames

Braves Fans Can’t Stop Talkin’ Mets Baseball

I love reading the Atlanta Braves blogs because they’re filled with posts about the Mets. Over at WordPress Chief Noc-A-Homa describes in great detail the “curse” of the Mets over the last three years. Of course, the end of last season felt like a curse mostly thanks to Tom Glavine. I reminded the Chief that in 2008 the Braves have Glavine and we have Johan Santana.

New York Mets Single Game Ticket Sales

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Ken Rosenthal on the Mets Options in Left Field

Fox Sports Ken Rosenthal isn’t ignoring the Mets this week. In fact, he addressed the Moises Alou situation in this column. In addition to the Tigers/Marcus Thames scenario, Rosenthal discusses the possiblity of Xavier Nady or Jay Payton coming back. He also mentions Kevin Millar and Paul Konerko in the column. Omar Minaya would be insane to trade for Konerko unless he could unload Schoenweiss and Jorge Sosa on the White Sox. Konerko hasn’t played one game in the outfield since he was with Cincinnati in 1998. So that doesn’t really help with the Moises Alou situation.

Fox Sports Dayn Perry Ignores the Mets

How could Dayn Perry of Fox Sports write a column yesterday about teams that are affected by spring training injuries and not even mention the Mets? Of course, Fox is baseball’s national television partner. This type of thing makes me very wary of national media outlets and their motivation. I realize that the Mets as one of baseball’s big market teams get a lot of attention but completely ignoring them for an article about injuries is ridiculous. Perry is one of Fox’s premier baseball columnists, along with Ken Rosenthal, and I like his work. But this week’s column really got under my skin.