Mets get Santana, Yankees and Red Sox thrilled

Disclaimer: This is another nothing to do about security article.  Today's Super Bowl Sunday so lets write about baseball. The other shoe has finally dropped on the biggest deal in baseball this off-season.  They NY Mets have won the Johan Santana sweepstakes.  The deal costs the Mets dearly. 4 young prospects, including 3 pitchers and 137.5 million over six years. What did they get for all that? Maybe the best pitcher in baseball today. A sturdy 2 time Cy Young award winner, Santana will anchor the Mets rotation for years to come.  The Mets beat out the Yankees and the Red Sox to win the prize.

Here is the funny thing though.  I think both the Yankees and Red Sox are happy the Mets got him. If you look at the Red Sox they are coming off of a World Series season. Their pitching appears solid and though you can never have enough pitching, the price to the Sox would have been either Jon Lester, a great pitching prospect or Jacoby Ellsbury or both.  A steep price to pay, not to mention the big fat contract on top of that.  And who knows how the other Sox players would have reacted to another big contract. It could have upset their whole payroll order  On the other hand, the Yankees would have had to deal one, if not two of their big three baby arms.  Hughes, Kennedy and Chamberlain.  These three could be the rock the Yankees build their next dynasty on.  The Yankees are finally going to let the young arms develop on the Yankees. Plus even the Yankees have to worry about yet another big contract.  I think one of the things driving both the Yanks and Sox quest for Santana was to keep their arch rivals from getting him!  Now the Mets have come in and taken that problem off the table. Yankees and Sox fans know that the only time they will have to regret this trade is if they meet the Mets in the World Series. If so, I am sure they will take their chances.

Here is hoping the deal works out for the Mets, it already has for the Yankees and Red Sox!