According to Joel Sherman on Twitter.
Bob Montgomery's Helmet Hat said:Wheeler seems like a really big piece to give up for 1 1/3 years of Gomez.
He's batting right now. The fans just started cheering him.canderson said:Flores was just took the field at the Mets game at SS. If he was traded why the hell did they leave him in the game?
https://twitter.com/Lahlahlindsey/status/626569545298374656soxhop411 said:
Terry Collins said that he did not remove Wilmer Flores from the game against the Padres because he had no idea about a pending trade. "There was nothing I knew about. Why would I take him out of the game?" Collins said.
Presumably Milwaukee didn't like Wheeler's medicals.canderson said:WTF
Something had to have happened in a medical report.
this *has* to be it, right? There's no crying in baseball.Wingack said:Maybe the Brewers saw Flores crying and didn't want him anymore.
Wingack said:Maybe the Brewers saw Flores crying and didn't want him anymore.
New report from @Ken_Rosenthal clarifies RT Sources: #Mets backed out of trade due to concern over hip issue with #Brewers’ Gomez.
agreed. On top of that, as much as Boras denies it, Gomez WAS dealing with a hip injury earlier this season.rembrat said:However cool it is to dump on the Mets, that doesn't really pass the smell test. Carlos Gomez' contract was known to anyone with a working internet connection but his medicals are a different story.
ut the reason he's out of the lineup for the third consecutive game was a troublesome right hip that’s been bothering him for the past couple weeks.
“I’ve been playing with a wrap around it for the last two weeks,” he said. “I don’t like to (complain) about it, but I haven’t been completely 100 percent. I’d be feeling it running to first base and it got worse, so we stepped back and I’m resting.
Gdiguy said:The only Mets-bashing that I see reasonable here is the handling of Flores (which I agree was dumb, they should've pulled him before it got out of hand).
Otherwise, I'm failing to see the Mets incompetence here? They made a deal pending medical records, the Brewers got Wheeler's and didn't like something, and the deal was off. Why is this an issue other than the NY media falling over themselves to report a deal as 'done' before the actual people involved agreed to it?
@jon, I assume part of it is Lagares really needs either rest or surgery to deal with his injuries, and who knows how long that'll actually be... Teams are basically treating his arm like Ellsbury at this point, he's clearly not anywhere near 100%, and it's dragging his offense down as well. If they're willing to accept Cuddyer as a sunk cost (I hope so), they needed a real competent outfielder anyway.
Sure, but the owner getting cold feet over adding payroll when the GM comes to him to approve the deal isn't totally unreasonable, especially for Wilpon.rembrat said:However cool it is to dump on the Mets, that doesn't really pass the smell test. Carlos Gomez' contract was known to anyone with a working internet connection but his medicals are a different story.