Maybe Omar Minaya better think again if he believes his job is safe. According to SNY and WFAN baseball insider Jon Heyman, the New York Mets rejected a possible trade with the Toronto Blue Jays that would have required the Mets to send only, ONLY Fernando Martinez, Jon Niese, Ruben Tejada and Bobby Parnell to the Blue Jays for staff ace Roy Halladay.
In other words, the Blue Jays were willing to take the Mets junk minor league prospects for one of the greatest pitchers in the game not named Johan Santana.
The Mets could have had a whirlwind top two starting rotation with Santana and Halladay. Those two at the top would have made the Mets almost unbeatable when they are completely healthy on the offensive side of the game, of course. Trading for Halladay would be a move for not this year, but for the next two years at least, but that appears to be as dead as a doornail.
This is a horrible mistake by the Mets. It is not like the Blue Jays were asking for David Wright and Carlos Beltran, which would have been a much more fair trade from the Blue Jays perspective, but, no, the Mets still feel that the oft-injuired Martinez, and the unproven Niese are too valuable to let go.
Once again, Omar Minaya finds a way to baffle us all.
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