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 More Mets NewsThe Mets, despite their insistence that they are content with Kazuo Matsui or Anderson Hernandez at second base, have started snooping around to gauge whether they can snag Alfonso Soriano at a discount price. Combining Soriano with Carlos Delgado, a mediocre defensive first baseman, would create a leaky right side of the infield. But Manager Willie Randolph, who knows Soriano from their time together with the Yankees and has lived with Matsui's suspect defense, may be persuaded to accept Soriano for the sake of more offense. Still, it is a long shot. Aside from the fact that the Nationals may not want to trade Soriano because they will not receive equal value, the biggest obstacle is that Matsui, who has a partial no-trade clause that prohibits his going to Washington, has an $8 million salary that the Mets wish they were not paying. They are adamantly opposed to spending $18 million for two second basemen, one of whom would not play. |
