Bengie Molina gave the Daily News some inside dish on his offseason courtship by the Mets:
“Yesterday, I was talking to my cousin, she’s from New York, and she said, ‘Do you think they just did it for the heck of it, just so people don’t say they didn’t (try to make a big signing)?’ In my opinion, I think they did, because I think if they really wanted me, they would have made a better offer so I could be happy to go to New York . . . If they would’ve offered me two years, I would’ve been there already. Right from the beginning, I told them, I said, ‘Hey, listen. You’re gonna have to give me two years at least, because that’s the only way I’m going over there. They knew, they knew from the beginning . . . I told them, they knew, and for three months, they didn’t move the offer. They didn’t move to anything but one year, $5.5 (million). That told me that they weren’t really interested in me.”
Despite everything that happened this offseason, this should give Mets fans some hope regarding their front office. Multiple years and many millions to Bengie Molina would have been a dumb play, and good for the Mets for apparently not even entertaining the notion.
