New York Daily News
Speaking publicly for the first time about Jose Reyes since the shortstop became a free agent on Sunday, general manager Sandy Alderson reiterated what the Daily News reported on Friday: The Mets will not begin with an offer designed to overwhelm the shortstop, and the team does not expect a resolution for several months.
“There are some situations where a player might indicate what it would take for him to forgo the free agent market,” Alderson said Monday. “There are some situations where a club might try to make a preemptive offer.
“I don’t think either one of those things is going to happen. I don’t think Jose is going to give us a number for which he would forgo free agency, and I don’t think we’re in a position to make what I would characterize as a preemptive offer."
Alderson has spoken recently with Reyes’ agent, Peter Greenberg, and said that he had “enough of a sense to know that things are going to go slowly, which I think is typical of most, if not all, free agents.”
Alderson spoke generally about his parameters for re-signing Reyes, saying, “We have a sense of where we would be comfortable or slightly less comfortable (or) totally uncomfortable,” but declined to specify what those parameters were.
Sources familiar with the team’s thinking have maintained that the Mets are unwilling to offer six or seven years, and might be uncomfortable with five.
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I like Reyes, but I don’t think he’s worth blowing the payroll when the Mets have other needs to fill. Alderson is a very good baseball man and the Mets are in much better hands with him than they were with Omar Minaya.
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