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Poll Results: Prince Fielder, Joel Hanrahan, Carlos Beltran

Jared Macdonald — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:40:55 +0000

We included polls in December articles on Prince Fielder, Joel Hanrahan, and Carlos Beltran, so here’s a look at the interesting results. One of them produced the most lopsided results in the history of our site, while the other two were quite close. There’s also a new poll up on our main page about whether [...]

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Blue Jays Interested in Carlos Beltran?

Jared Macdonald — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:16:48 +0000

Image courtesy of SI.com

Even though the Blue Jays already had seven outfielders on their 40-man roster, GM Alex Anthopoulos added another one in Ben Francisco from the Phillies on Monday, raising a lot of questions amongst the Jays’ fan base in the process.

According to Scott Miller of CBS Sports early this morning, though, the Jays might actually be looking to add another outfielder, this time via free agency in Carlos Beltran.

There hasn’t been much talk around baseball at all this offseason of Beltran, and while it’s highly unlikely that he’ll be playing for the Jays any time soon, he would fulfill Anthopoulos’ offseason desire to add a middle-of-the-order bat.

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Jays Could Target Mets Players: David Wright, Jose Reyes, or Carlos Beltran

Mat Germain — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 15:52:50 +0000

The Mets organization is in need of some real cash flows. So much so that their owner, Fred Wilpon, is apparently looking to sell up to 25% of the team to a new minority owner. In addition to this, the team as a whole underperformed in 2010, has Johan Santana‘s health to worry about already in 2011, and still may have health issues related to both Jose Reyes and Carlos Beltran.

Enter the silent assassin, Alex Anthopolous, who just cleared a ton of room off the books. He’s been known to prey on desperate teams, such as the most recent deal with the Angels, and can usually find a way to make things work. Is there a deal to be done between the NY Mets and the Toronto Blue Jays? I’m not sure and it seems that Alex Anthopolous is becoming fairly comfortable with what he’s got on board. But, if I’m Fred Wilpon looking at the finances in place and so many soon-to-be free agents on board, I’m pressuring the GM to find me some outs and some cash ASAP.

Here’s a list of trade candidates for the Mets and how things may work in a deal with the Jays, not that I believe it’s likely to happen, but only because anything can happen and these are intriguing thoughts:

Carlos Beltran – signed for 2011 at $20,070,000 (Courtesy of Cot’s)- Becomes a FA in 2012 (more…)