1 December 2008, 7:54 pm
Adam Dunn wasn't offered arbitration by the Diamondbacks which means a team won't gave to give up a first round draft pick in next June's draft. The market out there for Dunn has been less. The only team with serious interest that's been menitoned are the Nationals. The D'Backs not offering arbitration will get other teams interested now. I don't know why the D'Backs didn't. The worse case scenario was sign him to a one year deal (he would probably have rejected it and they would have gotten a pick anyway) for like 15 million. I think he makes a good fit with the Mets on a 3 or 4 year deal at about 15-16 million per year. I know the Mets will intend on going for pitching first. But he may sit out on the market long enough. He can go move over to 1B when Delgado becomes a free agent and Fernando Martinez should be ready to assume LF. Dunn's hit at least 40 home runs in 5 year years straight. He's actually exactly hit 40 in 4 consecutive seasons which seems hard to do. Bobby Abreu was also declined arbitration from the Yankees, so no pick will be going to the Yanks for him. Imagine Dunn batting 6th? The Mets would probably able to move Church 2nd. Or Beltran 2nd, Wright 3rd, Delgado 4th, Dunn 5th and Church 6th. It's true that Dunn's played plenty of OF and 1B before. He started off in the OF and I'm sure there were plenty of concerns as to how he'd do at 1B. He's below average defensively no matter where he plays. That's why it wouldn't suprise me if an AL team like Baltimore takes more interest and value to him. Even though he's below average defensively though, his versatility would be helpful to the Mets in the sense they could just move him over. He's not mobile, but he's not much of a vacuum cleaner at picking balls out of the dirt at 1B.... Read More »
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