Supply and demand forced New York Mets to delay decision about R.A Dickey, says Sandy Alderson-MLB
General Manager for New York Mets, Sandy Alderson, has revealed that the constant changes in supply and demand forced their organisation to delay decision about R.A Dickey.
Dickey has formally joined the Toronto Blue Jays at the moment. He is fairly pleased to have found a place where he will be respected and honoured.
Dickey was unhappy with the way the talks of his possible contract extension by the Mets were carried out.
The way the Mets made him wait for such a long time was displeasing for him.
He was so angry that he spoke out against some of the officials of the team before he signed a two-year contract with Toronto.
Dickey was demanding $31 million three-year contract from the Mets, which they could not accept for having limited financial capacity.
As a result, trading Dickey was an only option before them.
However, in order to find an appropriate trading partner, they needed to look deep into the farm systems of the interested teams.
They wanted to send Dickey to an organisation, which was willing to sacrifice top prospects in exchange for him.
It was difficult for the New York to find such a team right away. After a work of weeks, they managed to get the Blue Jays agree on what they were looking for.
Indirectly, Alderson has conveyed a message to Dickey as to why they could not carry out the process of negotiations with him expeditiously.
"One of the reasons the negotiations were prolonged is we began to see forces of supply and demand at work, frankly," Alderson said. "On the one hand, we saw the value of starting pitching go up in terms of compensation. At the same time, we saw the supply
start to go down in terms of availability. And so because we were proceeding on two tracks, at some point we had to wait and see what the value might be."
Regardless of what happened in the last couple of weeks, Dickey will be excited to carry on with his success as a starting pitcher and make sure the Blue Jays perform extremely during the next season.
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