With the newest New York Mets trade rumors it seems that the Mets have developed a new innovative way to stay away from players about to take a turn for the worse in their careers. That’s right! No more Mo Vaughn’s, or Pedro Martinez’s or Billy Wagner’s roaming around the Met’s clubhouse. The Masterminds that are the New York Mets front office have combined old baseball logic and pure unadulterated wit to concoct the newest advances in Free-Agentology. One of the best defensive outfielders of all time could be calling Citi Feild’s grass his home next season. What is The Mets new theory on finding players who will stay strong throughout their tenure in New York, you ask? Well, its actually quite simple. The New York Mets simply believe that the only way to avoid acquiring players on the verge of falling apart is to acquire players who have already fallen apart. The subject in the trade rumors is none other than former Met killer and FORMER defensive stud Andruw Jones. The only upside to Andruw is that he can’t have anymore of a downside.  If he were to be traded to New York he would come in with no expectations after his horrible 2008. After leaving Atlanta to ink a lucrative 2 year, 36 million dollar deal with the Dodgers last year, Jones committed the perfect crime, he simply just didn’t show up to play. An average year in Hotlanta for Jones looked something like this: 30 HR/100 RBI/.260 BA. Last Year in LaLa Land, Jones only got into 75 games, compiling only 3 homers, 14 ribbies and a meager batting average of .158. He also managed to get his games to strikeouts ratio to a solid 1:1 for the first time in his career. Jones, who is historically not known as a hitter who gets fanned too often, looked alot like Reggie Jackson at the plate, without any power… or contact for that matter. He was getting K’d up left and right. Trust me, I owned him in Fantasy Baseball, it was brutal. My point is that 2009 could not possibly be worse for him than 2008 was. Well, maybe it could be, you never know if he comes to the Mets. But he couldn’t possibly get bad enough to be considered a bust. To have a solid bust season you usually need to drop 100 points off your batting average, slug 50 less RBIs and pop 20 less dingers than you did the year before. If Andruw did that next year he would be at -17 HRs/-36 RBIs/.058 BA. As you can see, he is bust proof. Come to think of it, Andruw could raise morale for Mets fans everywhere. He could be in the rare breed of players who improves his stats after coming to the Mets. Trust me, this is not an easy task to accomplish. The Mets are lookin’ to dish off Luis Castillo in the deal. He is another one in the long line of players who took turns for the worse right after joining the Amazins. While getting rid of him would be a relief, it might be safer to keep him. If the Mets trade away Castillo then the only reasonable option at 2B would be free agent Orlando Hudson. He’s like a mix of Beltran with less power and Jose Reyes with less speed. However, if the Mets can’t ink him up, who’s gonna play second? Daniel Murphy? Argenis Reyes? Give me a break. With Jones in left and one of those two playing second I think we can consider this a “rebuilding year”. But enough of my complaining, back to the Mets Front Office. Using their innovative methods they are now looking far and wide for unbustables everywhere. Hey Mr. Bedard, I think you’d look pretty good in orange and blue….