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Interesting in all the talk of the composition of the outfield has found nothing mentioned of FA Cespedes. Not sure how his clubhouse demeanor is but certainly has tools that fit with the Jays. Add him along with Chris Davis. Keep Saunders as 4th OF and let Pompey develop. Rogers have good businessmen involved and have seen what a winning team can do for ticket sales and TV viewership and likely will approve a significant growth in payroll even with all the guessing being done on how little it might be. There is a tremendous opportunity right now to put together a major team for some years to come and there are FA pitchers and ones to be traded for that could be great fits with the team. FA's like the idea of being on a potential winner and they certainly can see what is happening in TO. Add Davis + Cespedes and there will be lots of interest. Save the money unless the bank vault really opens and pass on Price. Try to keep Navarro also if possible and it could easily be accomplished as one more years has passed and likely he can't find a full time catching position and may very well enjoy the possibility of actually being able to be in post season and maybe a WS champ. It will be fun to watch what actually happens during the next few months and if the right moves are made be a lot of fun for the season of 2016.

Thought I had heard that both Cespedes and Chris Davis would be FA this year. With the extra $ that Rogers has earned and what could be earned with full houses every game and the other revenue generated via post season and other retail sales, would not both be nice additions which would cover 1B and the outfield (Cespedes, Pillar and JB whose arm will be fine by Spring). No guarantee that TD will actually recover as it is troublesome to see an athlete take so long to recover from being struck in the chest by a ball. May be something deeper involved. Keep Goins either way. With spending on two good players like Cespedes and Davis (no idea of their clubhouse demeanor however) that frees up a number of players for trades or by not signing Price (who knows his demands) and dropping RAD/Thole there are a lot of options available for AA to work with. Without C the Mets are not in WS. Let Tulo heal and get acclimated more to the AL and he should rebound. Not sure who might be available as a catcher but DN might be inclined to resign based on what is more important -- $, playing time or maybe another shot at WS depending upon what else is done. Look back at all the changes made between '92 & '93 and while the first win had a terrific team, the second improved on it and if Rogers can be persuaded (they are businessmen and the profits have spoken which often make the prophets look like geniuses) to open the purse strings there could be an awesome team built from the FA market and some trades of pieces that the team could then part with. No need to just look at what is here and be satisfied. As many have pointed out, there is a lot of opportunities to get some really fine additional players in this off season and it should be a lot of fun in the next 4 months so Mets take care of business in 4 and let the fun begin.