Jon Heyman's column in Sports Illustrated the other day makes me wonder not so much why the Mets would trade Carlos Beltran within their own division but rather, why would a division rival send a top prospect to another team within its own division when that prospect could come back to haunt them for the next 7-10 years?
On a side note about Beltran, Will Leitch of New York Magazine makes an interesting observation:
"Within the next eleven days, the Mets are going to trade Carlos Beltran. When that happens, we will all write obituaries to his seven-year Mets career, the high times, the low times, the injuries, the last out of the 2006 NLCS."
Later in the same post, he writes:
"And in his first chance as closer, Jason Isringhausen, of all people, nailed down the save. Mets fans of course know Isringhausen as the onetime starting prospect burnout, but Cardinals fans know him as the agonizingly inconsistent closer whose injury allowed Adam Wainwright to become the Cardinals closer in 2006, which led to that 2006 NLCS Game 7, which leads us back to Beltran. This post just went full circle and blew your mind."
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