Moises Alou is staying with the Mets, and Damion Easley will return next season, too.
The Mets exercised their $7.5 million option on Alou's contract Wednesday, bringing back the 41-year-old left fielder who was limited to 87 games this season because of a quadriceps injury.
New York also re-signed Easley to a $950,000, one-year deal. The backup infielder and outfielder provided a boost off the bench in 2007 before a badly sprained left ankle ended his season on Aug. 18.
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Early indicators suggest the Mets are leaning toward a full courtship of Alex Rodriguez, pending David Wright's blessing.
This is no small obstacle, since ownership is wary of offending their most marketable and loyal star. "We already have a third baseman," is what one high-ranking official said on Monday.
Club officials plan to ask Wright if he still feels that way. As of Monday night, the Mets' third baseman was noncommittal, waiting to hear from ownership.
"Nobody has talked to me about any free agents," Wright wrote in a text message. "I would want to speak with Jeff [Wilpon] and Omar [Minaya] first."
"We can afford him," one Met insider said confidently. "It's going to be a baseball question more than a money question. Do we want him? Is he a good fit for one team? That's what we have to talk about."
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Six Mets filed for free agency Monday, on the first day players were eligible: Marlon Anderson, Luis Castillo, Ramon Castro, Damion Easley, Shawn Green and Paul Lo Duca.
The Mets figure to make re-signing Castillo a priority after trading for the second baseman at the July 31 deadline.
Lo Duca wants to return, but Mets' brass, while not ruling out a return, hopes to instead acquire a catcher via trade.
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Oct 24, 2007 11:43 AM EST
According to George King of the New York Post, the Mets aren't expected to re-sign Paul Lo Duca, and the Marlins, who have been stockpiling dollars, will likely be interested.
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Orlando Hernandez had surgery on his right foot Friday, and the Mets' pitcher is expected to be ready for spring training.
El Duque had a bunion removed from his second toe. An ailing foot interrupted his season, and the Mets collapsed down the stretch without Hernandez in the rotation.
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Mets Oct 2007 Archive
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New York Daily News | Oct 14, 2007
Steve Phillips regrets one thing about the Mets' short-lived but highly publicized flirtation with Alex Rodriguez seven years ago.
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Star-Ledger | Oct 10, 2007
Paul Lo Duca might have moved a step closer to staying with the Mets on Tuesday when the Detroit Tigers announced that they had picked up the $13 million option on catcher Ivan Rodriguez's contract for next season.
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Los Angeles Times | Oct 9, 2007
It was speculated that Mo Vaughn, who grew up in Norwalk, Conn.
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ESPN | Oct 5, 2007
The Mets' Tom Glavine declined his option with New York on Friday, making himself eligible for free agency.
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Yahoo.com | Oct 4, 2007
A disappointing 2007 season ended in surgery on Wednesday for New York Mets center fielder Carlos Beltran and lefthander Jason Vargas.
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Yahoo.com | Oct 3, 2007
Tom Glavine is unlikely to pick up his player option for next season and return to the Mets, SI.com reported on its web site on Wednesday.
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New York Times | Oct 3, 2007
In the roughly 40 hours that had elapsed since he left Shea Stadium on Sunday evening and returned Tuesday morning, Willie Randolph had symbolically distanced himself from the Mets? collapse.
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New York Daily News | Oct 3, 2007
Paul Lo Duca wants a multi-year deal that the Mets seem reluctant to give to him.
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Pioneer Press | Oct 2, 2007
Considering the New York Mets' late-season collapse, there is little doubt that general manager Omar Minaya will make a run at Twins two-time Cy Young Award winner Johan Santana this winter.
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New York Daily News | Oct 2, 2007
Scott Schoeneweis, fingered by an Internet report that said he received six shipments of steroids from the pharmacy that is at the center of an ongoing investigation into illegal prescription drug sales, told the New York Daily News Monday night that he has never heard of Signature Pharmacy or received shipments from Florida.
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Newsday | Oct 2, 2007
Reports suggest that the Mets' historic collapse will not cost Willie Randolph his job.
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ESPN.com | Oct 2, 2007
Scott Schoeneweis, the veteran Mets reliever and a survivor of testiticular cancer, received six steroid shipments from Signature Pharmacy while playing for the White Sox in 2003 and 2004, ESPN has learned.
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New York Post | Oct 1, 2007
Now that New York's epic collapse is over the attention turns to what the Mets do with Willie Randolph, the manager for this debacle.