Was it Werth it? Jayson Contract shakes up the winter meetings!

Seven years and one hundred and tweny six million dollars. Let that sink in. While I realize a team with the stature of The Washington Nationals have to over pay to attract top free agent talent to DC, I just have to wonder who the second highest bidder was? And for how much? Considering that he will be 32 at the start of this deal, and that most estimates had Werth signing for around four years and sixty million dollars, I am ready to vote Scott Boras into the Baseball Hall of Fame. If Marvin Miller gets in for revolutionizing baseball salaries, and George Steinbrenner gets in for being a maverick owner, then Boras should get in for being the most successful agent in the history of Major League Baseball.

Mets stun Nationals with late rally.

After getting almost no production from their pinch hitters (4 for 34), The Mets had to make a move. Pinch hitting specialist and Long Island native Frank Catalanotto, was jettisoned after only 25 at bats. The search for instant offense late in a game arrived in the form of an "animal". Chris "the animal" Carter did in one plate appearance what Catalanotto and Gary Mathews Jr. haven't done all year. Pinch hitting in the 8th inning last night, he drove in the go ahead run with a sharp double  to right field, giving the Mets their first come from behind victory (trailing after seven innings) of the year. Down five runs early, these "new" Mets overcame a shaky outing by lefty Jonathan Niese. Jason Bay and David Wright each broke out of their slumps, going a combined 4 for 6 with 2 walks. However, with a chance to break the game open in his second at bat of the 8th inning, Wright did what he's been doing at an alarming rate. Striking out (on pace for 212). Other key contributors were Angel Pagan, Rod Barajas, and Ike Davis, who for the third time this year, made an acrobatic catch of a foul ball over the dugout rail.