Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site dciem.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!jeff From: jeff@dciem.UUCP (Jeff Richardson) Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball Subject: Re: Met musings (Gary Carter) Message-ID: <1269@dciem.UUCP> Date: Wed, 12-Dec-84 09:43:53 EST Article-I.D.: dciem.1269 Posted: Wed Dec 12 09:43:53 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 12-Dec-84 13:05:52 EST References: <109@rruxu.UUCP>, <445@fisher.UUCP> Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada Lines: 25 Looking at the Carter deal from the other side, it was a shocker but trading Carter kind of makes sense. The Expos, once perennial runners-up, were getting worse, so it was time for them to take a new approach. They say that Carter was a bit of a disrupting influence at times, and his annual salary is about $1.8 million, but he's generally thought to be the best catcher in all of baseball, and he's coming off his best season offensively, so if they're looking at rebuilding the team, he's the best one to trade. Being the best in the game at his position, a contending team would be willing to give up a lot of good young prospects for him, and young prospects would certainly help a rebuilding team more than a 30 year-old. When your team is going downhill, you have to gamble or it's not likely to get better. The only thing I don't understand about the trade is why they made a trade that will almost certainly help the Mets more than the Expos (at least for the next few years anyway) with a team in their own division that's already better than they are. They must be looking about five years down the road because they've helped the Mets so much that it's going to be a long time before they have a chance of finishing ahead of them. I wonder what die-hard Expo fans like my brother-in-law think of the deal. I saw my brother-in-law a little over a week ago, and he thought the Expos would make a big trade, but I don't think he even thought about them trading Carter. He thought they might make a pitch for Ricky Henderson. -- Jeff Richardson, DCIEM, Toronto (416) 635-2073 {linus,ihnp4,uw-beaver,floyd}!utcsrgv!dciem!jeff {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!dciem!jeff