John Valentin’s was Better

Bruntlett already made two errors in the ninth, it was the least he could do.

Alex Cora to the Mets

From Boston.com

WEEI.com’s Rob Bradford is reporting that former Red Sox infielder Alex Cora “is close to finalizing a one-year, $2 million deal with the New York Mets.” The 33–year-old Cora played in 75 games for the Red Sox in 2008, batting .270 in 152 at-bats while playing second base and shortstop. He joined the Red Sox on July 7, ,2005 via a trade with the Indians in exchange for infielder Ramon Vazquez. Over his 11–year career, Cora is hitting .245 through 2,805 career at-bats. Cora signed a two-year, $4 million contract with the Red Sox following the 2006 season.

Mets Bullpen – Worst to First??

On Wednesday the Mets added K-Rod with a team friendly 3 year $37 million contract and yesterday they acquired one to the other top closers in baseball JJ Putz.   The AL West closers have been raided by the Mets who have had epic collapses the past two seasons and the bullpen was largely to blame.  The Mets still owe Billy Wagner $12 million next season and it appears that his career will be over due to more elbow surgery. 

Ken Rosenthal from Foxsports.com breaks down the 3 team – 12 player deal. 

The Mariners receive reliever Aaron Heilman, outfielder Endy Chavez, first baseman Mike Carp, and minor leaguers Maikel Cleto, Jason Vargas and Ezequiel Carrera from the Mets. They also get Franklin Gutierrez from the Indians.

The Indians get reliever Joe Smith from the Mets and infielder Luis Valbuena from Seattle.

From the Mets’ perspective, the deal is Heilman and Smith for Putz. Chavez and Reed are simply an exchange of backup outfielders, Smith and Green are an exchange of right-handed groundball specialists.