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What Alex Cora Means for the Julio Lugo Market 06.10.09 at 12:58 pm ET
By Alex Speier

Alex Cora spent the 2007 and 2008 seasons as the back-up to Julio Lugo. But right now, the former Red Sox utilityman has helped to ensure that the Mets don’t need to contemplate a desperate move, which is how the Mets and virtually everyone else in Major League Baseball would view the acquisition of Lugo.

Jose Reyes has a torn hamstring tendon, and so, as Newsday reports, the dynamic Mets shortstop is likely sidelined for about a month. Cora, who was acquired by the Mets (on a one-year, $2 million deal) this offseason in part because the Mets imagined that he would be a perfect complement and mentor to Reyes (and outfield prospect Fernando Martinez), has been pressed into starting duty for the Mets. And he’s responded.

Cora, who has started four of the last five games for the Mets since returning from the disabled list on June 4, is hitting .304 with a .402 OBP. He has played his usual excellent defense, and has also earned enormous respect from his Mets teammates for playing through a painful thumb injury, as detailed in the New York Times yesterday.

As such, though one major-league source suggested that the Mets consider themselves in “dire straits” with regards to their shortstop situation, New York’s National League club is “not quite (so) desperate” as to have interest in Lugo. Multiple sources indicate that Lugo is available on the trade market, though the likelihood of a trade involving the shortstop, who still has roughly $15 million left on a contract that runs through 2010, seems very, very slim.

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  • Kate

    Sigh…oh well…maybe since the Pirates are now trying to alienate their fan base, such as it is, and really tee off their first baseman, maybe we can trade Lugo for Jack Wilson…

  • Enad

    I say if the Sox are resigned to eating Lugo’s money and no one will give them a prospect even if they pay Julio’s full salary theyn DFA him now and bring up Gil Velasquez until Lowrie’s ready and use him like Cora was used with Lugo i.e occasional starts and as late inning defensive replacement. Velasquez can’t hit his weight but he’s probably an average MLB SS defensively, which is better than what the Sox have with Lugo – who is still showing effects of injury and has personally created at least 4 losses this year with his errors and lack of range. In a division that may be decided by a game, that’s too much to give away.

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