WILPON TRASHES WRIGHT, REYES AND BELTRAN Mets owner Fred Wilpon...

WILPON TRASHES WRIGHT, REYES AND BELTRAN
Mets owner Fred Wilpon literally added insult to injury when he stated in an interview to The New Yorker that David Wright is "A really good kid. A very good player. Not a superstar." The embattled owner slammed free-agent-to-be Jose Reyes for being injured and said he would not receive Carl Crawford money. Of Carlos Beltran, Wilpon said, “He’s 65 to 70 percent of what he was” and only received that large contract based on his 2004 postseason performance with the Astros.

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As unlikely as it seems, Jeff Wilpon last night did not rule out the Mets becoming buyers and adding payroll at the trade deadline.

“We’re open to whatever direction he wants to go and we’ll have that discussion,” Wilpon, the Mets COO, said at Citi Field, referring to general manager Sandy Alderson. “We’ve had plenty of them already on the direction we might be going. But Sandy has the ability to do what he has to do to make sure this team gets to as high a plateau as it can get to.”

Asked if he saw the team being a buyer, Wilpon said: “It’s very difficult to predict right now what’s going to happen in the next couple of weeks. That’s why there’s a deadline that’s out there and when that deadline approaches, I’m sure Sandy will have a plan that he’ll present. He’s very good about being persuasive.”

Wilpon said there was nothing new to report on the sale of a piece of the team to hedge fund manager David Einhorn, which both sides hoped to complete by the end of the month.

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