nydailynews.com - 12/1/2008
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Oliver Perez is going to get an offer from the Mets that he can refuse. Monday is the final day teams are allowed to offer salary arbitration on a one-year deal to their players who have filed for free agency. It's a no-lose for the Mets.
bizofbaseball.com - 11/26/2008
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bizofbaseball.com —
As you may have heard, banking giant Citigroup
has been hit with a round-house punch by the...
economy, and is getting rescued by the federal government. Citi also has a naming rights deal with the Mets. Here's why Citi backing out of the deal is harder than it seems.
(more)
Editorial: Citigroup Walking Away from Mets Naming Deal ...
theropolitans.com - 12/8/2008
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theropolitans.com —
If anyone thought Oliver Perez would accept arbitration,
they were crazy. Perez turned down the Mets arbitration...
offer last night, and will hit the market seeking a multi-year, lucrative deal.
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As expected, Perez denies arbitration
theropolitans.com - 12/1/2008
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Perez to Refuse Mets’ Arbitration Offer In 3…2…
Hot Foot —
... Today is the last day teams have to offer arbitration to their own players who have filed for free agency, and as is reported by Roger Rubin for The Daily News, the Mets plan to do so with LHP ...
Ayala Arbitration?
New York Mets Fan Blog —
So the big news today is that the Mets will most likely offer arbitration to Oliver Perez , possibly offer it to Luis Ayala , and decline it for everyone else. The risk with offering a player arbitration is that he might accept it. In the case of Perez, that'd be shocking but perfectly OK by me as the Mets would get one more year of him at a significantly-lower cost than his Boras-inflated current asking price. He'd be a cheap rental. Ollie makes sense - he won't accept it and the Mets will get draft picks (Type A yields 2 draft picks and a compensatory pick) as ...
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longislandmetfan.blogspot.com 2/2/2009 — Reports seem to indicate the Mets might be getting Ollie at 3 years with a 4th year as a vesting option. For once Boras will lose out on what his expectations were for Perez
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longislandmetfan.blogspot.com 12/19/2008 — WFAN is reporting that Jon Heyman has found that the Mets and Oliver Perez are 'far apart' in their contract negotiations. He believes that the Mets most likely will not bring Perez back.
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metsblog.com 1/24/2009 — Last night, on MLB Network’s Hot Stove Show , SI.com’s Tom Verducci said Omar Minaya would like to reach an agreement with Oliver Perez by the end of the weekend.
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joshqpublic.com 2/3/2009 — Say what you want about about Perez, but know this: Know that he comes up big against the big teams.
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Surfing the Mets - NY Daily News Blogs 12/1/2008
Tonight at midnight is the deadline for teams to offer arbitration to their own free-agent players. In essence, offering arbitration to a player ensures you get draft-pick compensation if the player signs elsewhere. Players have until Sunday (Dec. 7) ...
Perez unlikely to accept Mets' arbitration offer —
Newsday.com - Mets 12/2/2008
It did not come as a surprise yesterday when the Mets
chose to offer salary arbitration to Oliver Perez before the midnight deadline. And it won't raise any eyebrows when the quirky lefthander surely passes on that opportunity, instead opting for a ...
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