R.I.P. Francisco Rodriguez's vest. Once more for good measure. The vest graveyard takes in another...

R.I.P. Francisco Rodriguez's vest. Once more for good measure.
The vest graveyard takes in another victim. Mercifully.
Embiggen.

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Awesome

Love Cora in the background, ha.

by nmigliore on Jul 13, 2011 8:42 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs

Seconded

It’s witty and brilliant. It’s a vest graveyard.

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by sj10689 on Jul 14, 2011 6:38 AM EDT up reply actions

Jason Bay...

YOU’RE NEXT!!!!

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by Steve Schreiber on Jul 13, 2011 8:50 AM EDT reply actions

Bay has a vesting option as well? (still not sure how that works)

Goddamn…did Omar has some kind of compulsion to give these things out?

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by Kevin Power on Jul 13, 2011 11:20 AM EDT up reply actions

Yeah, Omar got vest-happy his last couple of years.

According to Cot’s Baseball Contracts, Bay has a $17 million club option for 2014, which becomes guaranteed (aka “vests”) if he has 600 plate appearances in 2013 or 500 plate appearances in both 2012 and 2013.

In essence, Sandy’s going to have another tight-wire act on his hands if he wants to slip out of that 2014 option.

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by Steve Schreiber on Jul 13, 2011 11:27 AM EDT up reply actions

Question

Do you think the Wilpons will let Sandy cut Jason Bay at the beginning of next season or will they wait till the start of the 2013 season?

by Unappreciated Genius on Jul 13, 2011 11:29 AM EDT up reply actions

I doubt they'll flat out cut him at the beginning of next season.

They still owe him $35 million in guaranteed money over the next two seasons ($16 million in ‘12/’13, along with the $3 million buyout that would be paid if he doesn’t vest). I’m sure Sandy will do everything in his power to deal him somewhere but with the year he’s having, there likely won’t be many takers unless the Mets eat a lot of the money (something I could see them doing, especially since they’ve got a bunch of prospects potentially in the wings in Nieuwenhuis, F!, Duda, Den Dekker and Cory Vaughn in the relatively near future).

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by Steve Schreiber on Jul 13, 2011 11:36 AM EDT up reply actions

Woops...got cut off.

Even if they eat a lot of money, there will likely be very few takers and they’ll probably get little to nothing in exchange.

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by Steve Schreiber on Jul 13, 2011 11:37 AM EDT up reply actions

Worse than than

They’ll probably have to deal Bay with a decent player and a B prospect and get a C- prospect (or two) just to keep up appearances.

Bay’s contract means he is severely negative in value. Specifically, he’s paid $16M/yr. for (per fangraphs) $6M/yr. in value (generously). He is worth -$10M per year.

Any sane GM would demand $5M/yr. in cash considerations AND $5M/yr. in expected prospect value just to break even. If you want to keep up appearances and get C- prospects in return, you’d need to give even more.

If I were a GM, to take Bay, you’d have to throw in Nick Evans and a Josh Satin, or perhaps maybe a Reese Havens at least, to get me to give you marginal prospects. Trading Bay is pretty much tantamount to trading Oliver Perez, impossible unless you throw him in as a burden.

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by GenJackRipper on Jul 13, 2011 8:52 PM EDT up reply actions

maybe they will let Ray Ramirez take a look at Jason Bay

and “approve of his injury?”

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by feslenraster on Jul 13, 2011 12:21 PM EDT up reply actions

damn

so a vesting option is just a guaranteed option. Makes Omar’s last couple of years look even worse

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by Kevin Power on Jul 13, 2011 11:29 AM EDT up reply actions

Yeah, a vest turns into a guarantee if the condition is met

Omar gave these away like candy, which was the source of much consternation here

by Joamiq on Jul 13, 2011 1:03 PM EDT up reply actions

It is, but only when Omar's giving them out.

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by BobbyV_Incognito on Jul 13, 2011 6:26 PM EDT up reply actions

Bay had better be a good guy and find his stroke soon

If he can have a monster year in ’12 or ’13 we might be able to trade him to a contender. Wishful thinking.

by Shevshevy on Jul 13, 2011 11:43 AM EDT up reply actions

Biggest problem

with Bay, and Beltran for that matter, is they have full no trade clauses. Another stupid thing to do.

by afrosupreme on Jul 13, 2011 11:31 AM EDT up reply actions

Actually

I think Beltran is a 10-5 player. Ten years in the league, five years with the same team, which gives him the right to not be traded to any team without his consent.

by Unappreciated Genius on Jul 13, 2011 11:36 AM EDT up reply actions

I think he probably is 10-5

but Cot’s has a full NTC listed as well.

by afrosupreme on Jul 13, 2011 11:43 AM EDT up reply actions

yeah

but he has said he will accept a trade to a contender, and only a contender would be interested in acquiring him…

so it prob wont be a big thing… I dont see Beltran as the type of person to not want to play for any city (as in, I dont want to go to the west coast, or be away from my hometown or anything like that).

I think it was Bobby V who said: "You are never as good as you are when you are at your best, and you are not as bad as when you are at your worst."

by gbaked on Jul 13, 2011 11:59 AM EDT up reply actions

Rec'd so hard

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by Aidan Gibson on Jul 13, 2011 11:15 AM EDT reply actions

Bravo

All in the vest, yo, all in the vest

by Bieser's Balk on Jul 13, 2011 11:16 AM EDT reply actions

Vest In Peace

by Bieser's Balk on Jul 13, 2011 11:22 AM EDT reply actions 14 recs

This is very punny!

Love it.

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by Steve Schreiber on Jul 13, 2011 11:23 AM EDT up reply actions

VIP?

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by sj10689 on Jul 14, 2011 6:40 AM EDT up reply actions

Very talented.

by MetsFan4Decades on Jul 13, 2011 11:52 AM EDT reply actions

recommended bjk and bieser's balk

I burst out laughing and my folks just looked at me funny

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by feslenraster on Jul 13, 2011 12:22 PM EDT reply actions

I was starting to write a FanPost about K-Rod, the vest, and re-signing him.

No need for that anymore. Good thing it didn’t get past two paragraphs.

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by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Jul 13, 2011 12:52 PM EDT reply actions

this site must lead the internet in vest based humor

well done!

Hey, wait! I'm having one of those things. You know? A headache with pictures?

by KeithsMoustache on Jul 13, 2011 2:09 PM EDT reply actions

we are the only team that issues vests to their players

other teams just have standard uniforms

One day, this team is going to kill me.

by fxcarden on Jul 13, 2011 2:59 PM EDT up reply actions

This site definately has vested interests.

by Cranky50 on Jul 13, 2011 3:48 PM EDT up reply actions

We invest a lot of our time into it.

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by NetsMets4Life on Jul 13, 2011 6:05 PM EDT up reply actions

A market inefficiency, to be sure

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by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Jul 13, 2011 7:23 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions

Hasta la vesta, Frankie.

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by BobbyV_Incognito on Jul 13, 2011 6:27 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs

i feel like dancing

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he's gone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!OLLIE PEREZ IS GONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

by rexthejet on Jul 13, 2011 6:49 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs

we just HAVE to keep this as AA's meme, or something

every time I see it I crack up

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by feslenraster on Jul 13, 2011 7:49 PM EDT reply actions

I have a suggestion

We accidentally, on purpose of course (or the other way around), assume that closing time means impending doom is upon, and then an “oh, wait?” moment follows.

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by sj10689 on Jul 14, 2011 6:43 AM EDT up reply actions

upon us

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by sj10689 on Jul 14, 2011 6:44 AM EDT up reply actions