(Trade Delgado and Beltran…C’mon) & (An interesting Mets-Yanks Swap)

As per (to be redundant) The The Eddie Kranepool Society, we should trade both Carlos Delgado and Carlos Beltran. Basically, the personality/mentality point is brought up again. Well I don’t really know why the Mets would trade a fantastic defensive and offensive centerfielder and a hr-rbi 1b at this point in the season when the division is up for grabs (not to mention the current win streak – uh…finally) – maybe because it’s the most we could get for Carlos Beltran for the rest of his career/contract and because we only have Carlos Delgado until season’s end before Daniel Murphy takes over 1b? Now this was written prior to the streak, however I felt just as passionately before the streak. Either way I don’t see how we could do that at this point unless we get a top notch starting ace + center fielder back for Beltran and I don’t see that happening from any team in a race or not. Plus we’d need that center fielder to be offensively producing right away. Maybe if the Mets fell out of it, I can definitely see such a trade happening at the break/deadline, but I don’t see that occurring either. I guess it’s not a question, but if it was, then the real question is what could we get for Beltran and or Delgado? Maybe we could send Delgado and Beltran to the Mariners for Jose Lopez/2b, Ichiro/of, Bedard/sp. Obviously, there’s an extenuating factor of neither of these teams wanting such a deal (mainly Delgado, even though I still think he’s more than stellar). Of course the Blue Jays could work with us sending Roy Halladay-sp + Vernon Wells-of + Aaron Hill-2b for Carlos Delgado , Carlos Beltran, Jon Niese, Brad Holt, but would either team really do that? Most likely Delgado and Beltran would have to go separate ways. Maybe Beltran (along with Fernando Martinez-of) could finally become a Yankee for Robinson Cano + Phil Hughes. The Yankees do have multiple OF coming off the books next year (Hideki Matsui and Johnny Damon in addition to Xavier Nady with Brett Gardner and Melky Cabrera being expendable while the Yankees get spendable). I’d like to see what kind of a deal the Mets and Yankees can pull off with this basis. The Mets should be interested in a Hughes + Cano for Beltran + Fernando Martinez deal if we can somehow land/sign/accept a centerfielder via trade elsewhere or even from the Yankees (I guess Melky Cabrera could fill in), but I think Hughes may become, if he wasn’t already, untouchable via trade (even after his past rough start). I think this Mets-Yankees trade could actually work out if the Mets also send top SS prospect Wilmer Flores or Reese Havens in there for when Derek Jeter/ss is done. Hmm… It gets more interesting as I write:

Could that work? I’ll tell you what… Cashman and Minaya (or the next Mets GM), why don’t you guys talk? The Mets can always throw in Luis Castillo/2b and Ramon Castro/c since the Mets seem so willing to trade Ramon (obviously we’d have to provide their salary or should at least).

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