The words of the day...

"Minaya has made offers to both Bengie Molina, who played for the Angels last season, and the Padres' Ramon Hernandez. The deals are similar three-year packages worth $5 million-to-$6 million per year, according to a baseball official."

"Whoever was going to be out of the Konerko sweepstakes was going to look for a cleanup hitter," Minaya said. "So I said, 'Let me get this (the Delgado deal) done."

Hmm, in my "prediction" before, I stated that 3-years at 24 million was about what Hernandez was worth. If Minaya can sign him for 3-years at 15/18 million, that would be a great signing (in my book).

As for the Delgado comment, well, I kind of figured that Omar rushed this for one reason or another; although, it's been said that there weren't any other serious negotiations with the Marlins about Delgado, and that it was pretty much just the Mets and Marlins talking trade, so why rush this and overpay? Simple, the Phillies were just about done trading Thome and Ryan was having a good ole' time in Toronto. It's becoming pretty clear to me that the Delgado trade was rushed to further entice Wagner (and hopefully Hernandez) to sign with the Mets. Maybe if Omar waited a little longer the Mets could have given up less, and gotten more.