This team is winning, you don’t sell when your winning. If you could package Reyes for Halladay or maybe even Oswalt you consider it, but The Jays are certainly not selling at this point and the Astros would want prospects.

Right now the Mets need to add supplementary pieces like a catcher or possibly a back end starter, otherwise they just need their players to produce.

Omar had put a championship caliber team together and its up to the players. last yr we was died until Willie got fired. they team played there hearts out and made it a competitive season. Wagner got hurt and the team failed. If Wagner doesn’t get hurt, we walk into the playoffs. they yr before we was up 7 with 17 games left. What could Omar do with 17 games left? What could Omar do when Wagner got hurt? We have been competitive every yr Omar was hired. Signed the best Centerfielder in Beltran and TRADED for the best Pitcher in the game Santana. I remember when we didn’t play a meaningful game before Omar got here. Its up to the players to finish.

Beltran is the best player the Mets have by far. He completely irreplaceable. He is going nowhere. Anybody who suggests trading Beltran has no business talking about baseball with anybody. Everybody talks about how NY players are overrated, yet somehow the Mets best player, probably the best player in NY besides Alex Rodriguez (Tex has nothing on Beltran), is one of the most underrated players in the whole league. People seem to undervalue him because they care too much about batting average. Beltran is good for a .270/.360/.500 on any given year, and capable of an upper 900’s OPS in a good year, all this while playing the best CF in baseball, and running the bases as well as anybody in the game.

nrmax88 thinks it might be time to break up the retards by shutting down the Ed Kranepool society. Man, I could understand if it were a Philly blog suggesting this blasphemy, but a Mets blog? Good god.

Again, anybody who suggests trading Beltran is unfathomably clueless. If you absolutely must break up the core, you trade Wright. He is a young superstar, but you ca come closer to replacing him at 3B then you could ever come to replacing Reyes or Beltran, because of the offense, defense, and baserunning they give you. You can replace Wright with Murphy at 3B, add a slugger for LF next year, not to mention grab a boatload of guys for Wright, and when all is said and done, you don’t lose a ton of production. If you move Reyes or Beltran, give me one way you could come anywhere close to replacing them at those scarce positions. I will save you the time. You can’t do it. Trading Beltran is honestly the stupidest thing the Mets could ever do right now. And because I know it is coming, for those who think Beltran is overpaid, read this article.

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/valuing-beltran

It goes on too value Carlos Beltran, coming to the conclusion that he is worth 84 million over the rest of his deal, and if he were signing a one year deal today, a 31 million dollar contract would be appropriate. That was written in the offseason, before Beltran started what is looking like will be his best season as a professional. He is now using all fields, and driving the ball to all fields, something he never did before, which I am predicting will lead to his first season of batting 300. I know I tend to rant about players I like, but Beltran is just something special. He is the best position baseball player the Mets have ever had, and he is going nowhere.

Trading Beltran is horrible though. Gold Glove CF who goes 30/25 every year? No way, trade Wright.