This is now official: the Mets have acquired Gary Matthews Jr. in exchange for relief pitcher Brian Stokes. The Angels have agreed to pay $21.5 million of the $24 million due to the outfielder over the next two years. This means the Mets will be paying him $1.25 million. Well. THAT was disappointing. All of this talk of a fancy three way trade made this actually interesting, but in reality the Mets just acquired what will amount to a 4th outfielder. Honestly, I think Angel Pagan will most certainly beat him out in spring training, and Matthews will be on the bench all year, and possibly even hurt some bench flexibility once Beltran comes back. In other words, yet another dumb Mets move. Ugh.
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