Johan...

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Originally Posted by pmayjr

I kinda disagree with this for 2 reasons-
1) the Mets know what they're getting into by making this trade
2) I wasn't naive to the fact that after the deal was all said and done- no matter what team he got traded to, or even if the Twins somehow retained him, that he's gonna be the 2nd highest paid player in baseball behind A-Rod.

thats what i was getting at. i thought all along he was getting more then zito. i knew the mets were going to have to cough up the highest price for any pitcher in mlb with this.but they do have a little less leverage then other teams due to the circumstances of the mets