Just days after signing Phormer Phillie Chris Coste, the Mets are said to be mulling a contract offer to 12 year veteran C Henry Blanco (above), most recently of the San Diego Padres. It’s a curious move given Jon Heyman’s insistence the Mets are also preparing a two-year pact for backstop Bengie Molina — Omir Santos and Josh Thole are presumably still turning up for Spring Training. Perhaps a long 2009 of difficult math has led Omar Minaya’s paymasters to forget MLB rules only allow one catcher on the diamond at a time.
Earlier today, Baseball Think Factorys‘s Repoz linked to a HuffPo item that described Derek Jeter being interviewed on “Fox & Friends” by the wife of his agent. I suppose this is the sort of mature, nuanced handling of the media Tiger Woods is meant to emulate.
Coste can be sent down to the minors, he has never used up all his options. If they really intend to keep him in the bigs I’m sure it’s more as a PH (though he didn’t do it especially well for Phillies) who can easily be double-switched (he can also play several IF and OF positions if they let him).
Blanco and Coste don’t fit the mold of Minaya’s acquisition pattern. They’re too young. I think they’re saving the big bucks for Sandy Alomar Jr. The fourth-stringer should probably be Benito Santiago, unless Gary Carter still has his shin guards.
Rog doesn’t comment often these days, but that was a doozy. Carter is probably unavailable, what with coaching a community college team, but we already know how good Yogi Berra will look in one of those new/old alt. jerseys.