Outfielder Jason Bay seems lukewarm on Mets, pushing to resign with Red Sox

[joeybee12]

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/2009/12/24/2009-12-24_outfielder_jason_bay_seems_lukewarm_on_mets_pushing_to_resign_with_red_sox_.html

It's hard to get a feel just yet for how serious the Boston Red Sox are about renewing their pursuit of Jason Bay, but it's looking more and more as if Bay very much wants to play for them -- as opposed to the Mets, that is.

Reports have filtered out of Boston about the Sox rethinking the idea of re-signing Bay, whom they seemed to rule out of their plans after signing pitcher John Lackey and outfielder Mike Cameron last week.

It may be the result of Bay's agent, Joe Urbon, continuing to call the Red Sox in recent days, according to a report in the Boston Globe.

You have to think Urbon has offered to get creative financially in trying to make a deal, knowing the Sox do not want to go over the $170 million payroll luxury tax threshold. Chances are that means significantly backloading any contract Bay signs so that he makes most of his money in, say, the final two years of a four-year deal.

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[Kingofalldems]

1. The Mets new stadium does not give up homers

Why wouldn't he want to return to a hitter friendly park?

[joeybee12]

4. Jason's numbers are much better in Boston than they were in

Pittsburgh...

[DaveinMD]

5. this is a myth

Here are the home run park effect for mlb stadiums. CitiField is in the top half of baseball.

http://espn.go.com/mlb/stats/parkfactor/_/sort/HRFactor

[tigereye]

2. maybe he'll come back to Pittsburgh!

:rofl: Sorry, I'm happy for him, but we really missed him here. Hope he goes back to the Sox, since they seemed to love him there. Great guy who deserves a good deal.

[joeybee12]

3. A certain someone, who shall remain nameless...

...hated him, said getting rid of him was the best thing Pittsburgh did!

[tigereye]

6. who the heck said that? That's so crazy.

sigh. :crazy: :banghead:

They really don't care about the fans, or use any common sense anymore. It's crazy.

[joeybee12]

8. He's no longer here...he was TS'ed...not for something in the sports

forum but for getting out of control in the lounge...he always claimed we Red Sox fans would be booing him soon enough.

[rep the dems]

7. Doesn't want to play for the Mets?

I wonder why on earth that could be...:evilgrin:

[Kingofalldems]

9. One thing for sure about the Mets--They have the

worst GM in the history of sports----Omar Minaya----so far he has decimated two teams, the Expos and the Mets. And he still has a job.

[Chan790]

10. Isn't that the truth...

my brother and I were talking about it this afternoon and concluded there is only one explanation...he has compromising photos of Jeff Wilpon. There is no other alternate explanation for the Rasputinesque hold he seems to have on that job and the Wilpons' refusal to fire him despite his constant mismanagement of the Mets organization.

[rockymountaindem]

11. Bonus points for the Rasputin analogy

:toast: