[新聞] Mets'Johan Santana Could Be Deadline Option for Yankees

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The Mets are in trouble. They’re being sued for $1 billion, are trying to
sell part of the team just to cover their expenses, took out a $25 million
loan back in November and are asking for another one worth at least $10
million now. The team hasn’t improved much, if at all, this offseason and
despite having a beautiful new stadium they will be playing in front of a lot
of empty seats.

To say their finances are in bad shape is an understatement. They insist
their off the field troubles won’t effect their off the field issues, but
that’s not the case with teams that need multiple loans just to stay afloat
during the offseason. It seems ever more likely that the Wilpon family
eventually need to sell the team and it is more possible that they will have
to eventually hold a fire sale just to stay afloat before then.

This brings us to Johan Santana. If the Mets are going to dump off some of
their more expensive pieces Santana fits this bill pretty well. The problem
is that he is overcoming a shoulder surgery that ended his 2010 season.
Before they can deal him, Santana will have to prove he is healthy otherwise
no other team will want him.

Even if he pitches in a game or two, there is likely to be some performance
drop-off due to the surgery and even if there isn’t questions will not be
answered about his shoulder. That would make him a cheap option in the sense
that he wouldn’t cost a lot of draft picks to obtain. He still would cost a
bundle in salary as he’s owed $72 million over the next three years.

That would make any trade rather tricky. If the Mets are going to be looking
to move him they’re going to try to get rid of as much salary of his as
possible. If the Yankees are interested in him, they probably wouldn’t have
to deal much to get him, but the issue will be how much of his salary they
take on. A lot of Yankees fans have a head in the sand ‘it’s not my money’
 mentality, but in this instance taking on as much as $72 million for a
pitcher coming off of shoulder issues would severely limit their financial
flexibility if it didn’t work out.

The way the two sides would have to work out a deal Santana would have to
come back and pitch well enough to justify a sizable financial risk for the
Yankees to take on. On top of that the Mets might also have to swallow a
chunk of Santana’s salary so the Yankees aren’t forced to carry the full
$72 million. Only if the Mets ate an exceptionally big chunk of his salary
would the Yankees have to include any prospects of real value.

This might sound like it is a pretty easy and straightforward deal, but it isn
’t. Both sides are going to come to the table with totally different ideas
of how to negotiate his salary. There is also the idea to consider that the
Yankees and the Mets trade much, or at all. The last trade between these two
teams was when Mike Statanton was sent back to the Yankees in December of
2004 for Felix Heredia. They haven’t so much as negotiated on a possible
deal since then.

So while it is a possibility that a deal could be worked out between the two
sides, it would be extremely complicated and both sides would have to be
motivated to do it. The Mets will have to be desperate to move payroll and
the Yankees must be desperate to acquire another starter. Even if those are
the conditions, a deal still might not get done. We are, after all, talking
about a pitcher coming off shoulder surgery who is owed $72 million who might
not be much better than Freddy Garcia once he returns to the mound.

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